Mixed baggage

I have a love-hate relationship with SCOTUS. I loathe that they are appointed (after the Judiciary Committee waxes on and on and on and seldom asks a real question) by whomever happens to be in office when they retire or die. I adore them when they uphold what I think are the principles on which this teenage nation was really founded, and which Congress so often seems unable to recall.

And then there are the times when they duck the issue. Sending Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood back to the First Circuit Court of Appeals is a better decision than they could have made, but certainly isn't the best possible outcome for reproductive freedom. Abortion is a complicated issue, for almost everyone, at almost any stage and in almost every circumstance, and for that reason, I'd like to leave the decisions completely up to the women in question and their doctors. Let's just get rid of the law entirely, provide comprehensive and medically accurate sex-ed in all schools, and work towards universal health care, shall we?