Roe v. The Rest of Us

I’m just a plainspoken Colorado criminal defense lawyer, but the way I see it…

In the spirit of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s leaked draft opinion, I’m going to leak a (probably) final draft opinion of my own:

I believe that life begins at conception. When the sperm fertilizes the egg, that’s when we get going. Sometimes we don’t make it very far. Sometimes we make the news by blowing out one hundred candles.

Some of us never make it out of the womb, for any number of reasons; abortion is one. That’s the space Justice Alito wants to control.

That’s not his space. That’s not my space. That’s the space every woman owns. That’s her space.

Justice Alito’s opinion, my opinion, your opinion, have no fair and just legal business in her space until the human being growing inside her has reached viability such that they could grow as well outside her, into our space.

Yes, Justice Alito, the Constitution makes no mention of abortion. The Constitution also makes no mention of the women we are going to kill or otherwise make suffer with our opinions.