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‘This is getting crazy quickly!’ Morning Joe warns Alito’s ‘extreme’ ruling ushering in legal chaoshttps://t.co/NYfst3bYKe

— Raw Story (@RawStory) May 9, 2022

 The "Morning Joe" host said evidence is mounting that conservatives close to the U.S. Supreme Court have been leaking details of the deliberations over an abortion rights case to preserve the 5-4 ruling, but he said Alito's poorly reasoned opinion would endanger other civil rights.

A fair and decent analysis, one I concur with.  The right wing is obviously in panic about not being able to overturn Roe, and that panic starts in the Supreme Court.  With the justices, not the law clerks.

"This looks like the right is actually getting a little nervous that they don't have five hardcore votes that would want to overturn Roe the way Alito wants to overturn Roe, so it is still very much in play," Scarborough said. "Now you have, my God, Louisiana, since this has happened, Louisiana is now talking about throwing girls and young women in jail if they have a abortions. They're talking about a life beginning at fertilization. I mean, these are characters out of, like, the De Vinci Code, like, this is getting -- oh, I don't know, Handmaid's Tale. This is getting extreme."

Just asking for a friend but:  what planet has Joe Scarbrough been on this whole time?  Did he think "outlawing abortions" just meant civil fines to practitioners?  There are officeholders in Texas talking about punishing women who go to Mexico or New Mexico to get abortions.  Does Scarbrough imagine they mean civil fines? Or maybe a judicial reprimand of "You've been a very naughty girl, and now you must wear this scarlet letter!"?

"Life begins at conception" is the whole reason legal experts are warning some proposed laws will outlaw IVF.  Which is ironic, because without it, some babies wouldn't have been born.

And after those babies are born?  Texas is on it!  The same clowns who want to criminalize going to New Mexico for a safe, legal abortion, want to make adoption easier so moms who can't abort, can get rid of the child another way.  Considering Texas' absolutely abysmal record with foster care of children, loosening adoption standards doesn't sound like the soundest method of taking care of fetuses once they are no longer fetuses.