Bad Habits Poisoned Roe

With four-and-a-half months to go until the mid-term elections, it's a good time to remember that without Donald Trump's pivotal 2016 victory, his appointees -- Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett -- would not be members of the Supreme Court. And, when it comes to the right to choose issue, it's very unlikely Hillary Clinton would have appointed anyone of that nefarious trio's ilk to serve on the Court. 

So, as you read this, without Trump's disaster of a four-year term in the White House, Roe vs. Wade would still be standing. Sadly, we know Roe is kaput. 

It won't surprise me to soon see news clips of Trump bragging about having poisoned Roe, as he had promised to do. By the way, speaking of "stare decisis," has the Supreme Court ever before wiped away a "right" that it crafted in the first place?

Moreover, two groups, in particular, must bear much of the responsibility for Trump's 2016 win and thus today's decision that struck down Roe vs. Wade: 1. Republicans who were semi-revolted by Trump. Still, by habit, just couldn't vote for a Democrat. 2. Democrats, who, because they were bored with politics and/or they found Clinton too annoying, simply didn't vote, again. 

No doubt, today it's easy to see that ever since Trump won in 2016, Roe has had one foot in the grave. Today, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett are happily shoveling dirt on its coffin. 

Bottom line: Blame? It wouldn't be wrong to say that Americans' bad habits, to do with elections, deserve a large portion of the blame for the poisoning of Roe ... then it took a while to die.

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