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Mississippi Abortion Case – Roe v. Wade’s Flight 93 Oral Argument For Sotomayor, Breyer, Kagan

Sotomayor seemed desperate: “Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?” //

Three questions were presented in the Petition for a Writ of Certriorari, but the court granted review only on the first question:

1. Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.

2. Whether the validity of a pre-viability law that protects women’s health, the dignity of unborn children, and the integrity of the medical profession and society should be analyzed under Casey’s “undue burden” standard or Hellerstedt’s balancing of benefits and burdens.

3. Whether abortion providers have third-party standing to invalidate a law that protects women’s health from the dangers of late-term abortions.

That question, particularly to the exclusion of the others, seemed to be a signal that Roe v. Wade, which rested on viability, was on the table: //

Will this institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception that the Constitution and its reading are just political acts?

The problem, of course, is that Roe v. Wade always was an exercise of political compromise, a compromise that never had clear popular support.

And the “stench” of politics has been injected into the system by those who support Roe v. Wade, starting with the disgusting treatment of Republican nominees from Robert Bork to Brett Kavanaugh. Every time a Republican makes a Supreme Court nomination, Democrats demand to know the nominee’s position on Roe v. Wade, it’s the central issue during hearings, media coverage, and protests.

While Los Angeles, New York City, and Chicago — which leads the country with at least 739 murders this year — remain below their respective record annual homicide rates of the 1990s, at least 12 large cities across America have already broken their annual records. These cities have one thing in common:

They’re all run by Democrats. //

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
BREAKING: Philadelphia now has MORE murders than NYC and LA in one year
Philadelphia now has MORE murders than NYC and LA
dailymail.co.uk
5:45 PM · Dec 8, 2021 //

521 homicides YTD blows away New York City

Thomas Paine
@Thomas1774Paine
Philadelphia Nears 500 Murders in 2021; Mayor Wants Gun Control To Combat It
Philadelphia Nears 500 Murders in 2021; Mayor Wants Gun Control To Combat It
paine.tv
1:15 AM · Nov 30, 2021 //

As retired NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told ABC News:

Nobody’s getting arrested anymore. People are getting picked up for gun possession and they’re just let out over and over again.

Coal plants such as Drax, Ørsted Energy’s Avedøre power station, in Denmark; and the Rodenhuize thermal power plant, in Belgium; started to transition from coal to wood pellets. (Ali Lewis, the head of media and public relations for Drax, disputed Quaranda’s description. “How can we be ‘gaming the system’ when the carbon accounting for biomass is derived from the principles set by the world’s leading climate scientists at the U.N. I.P.C.C., and we follow those rules to the letter?” Lewis asked.) //

By 2019, biomass accounted for about fifty-nine per cent of all renewable-energy use in the E.U. The Dogwood Alliance estimates that sixty thousand acres of trees—trees that would have otherwise sequestered carbon—are burned each year to supply the growing pellet market. Global demand for wood pellets is expected to double by 2027, to more than thirty-six million tons. And although the entire premise of burning wood as renewable energy hinges on the assumption that trees grow back, there is no binding governmental or industrial oversight for replanting trees at all. “There’s no requirement that Drax or anyone has to replant trees, and no requirement that whatever they’re planting has to come back as natural forest,” Quaranda said.

Even if there were strict protocols for replanting trees, it takes between forty and a hundred years for a new tree to pay down the carbon debt racked up by logging and burning an old one. //

Pellets made from these trees are shipped from ports (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is one; Prince Rupert, British Columbia, is another) to England, where they are loaded onto custom-built trains, brought to Drax, and burned to supply around six per cent of the electricity used in the U.K.

The Dogwood Alliance has extensive photographic evidence of whole trees in North Carolina and Virginia being piled up on trucks that are headed for Enviva’s pellet mills, which require some fifty-seven thousand acres of timber per year to operate. //

We pulled up to a giant, open-ended metal shed, where railroad tracks came in one side and out the other. Here, trains bearing the slogan “Powering Tomorrow” carry pellets in from the English ports. Seventeen trains per day, with twenty-eight cars each, bring twenty thousand tons of pellets to this shed every single day.