The months March on.
We’re having a touch of summer here. High today, 98 degrees. A nice warm morning, air conditioning in the afternoon; but when we do go outside, it just feels good. It’s not entirely summer though, just a taste. In a couple days it will cool back down into the 70s. In the summer, it will just stay in the 90s for months.
Our constant source of entertainment, Donald Trump, did it again today. He declared, in line with his conservative values, he’s pro-life. Abortion should be illegal. And if he gets elected and can make it illegal, then any woman who gets an abortion should be punished. The crowd went wild. He not only offended the pro-choice activists, he ignited the anti-abortion activists as well. Of course, it didn’t take long before he had “clarified” his position. What he meant to say was that if abortions are illegal, the doctors performing them should be punished, but not the women. Big sigh of relief. He walked it back. He made it right.
But I’m left with a logic problem. There is no question that women will seek abortions whether they are legal or not. Not all women of course, but a significant number of women. If abortions are illegal, then of course the doctors who provide them should be jailed, but shouldn’t people engaging an illegal service be jailed as well? Don’t we already have a precedent here? What about drug use? There is no questions that a significant number of people seek illegal drugs. If the suppliers of illicit drugs are caught, they are jailed.
The consumers, people convicted of illicit drug use, are jailed as well. It only makes sense. If something is wrong, it’s wrong. If you punish the people supplying the service, you should punish the people procuring the service as well.
Just like with prostitution too. Jail the prostitutes and, and, ….and let the johns go free.
Oh, nevermind.
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