I'm going to be a gentleman now.

Can I please have your attention?

Thank you, Jenga.

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I think we've been kicking it all. All cylinders this week. David French has a fantastic piece in his four members only.

Newsletter from yesterday explaining this Supreme Court stuff in Texas, this Roe v Wade being overruled in hysteria.

That alone, I think is probably worth the price of the subscription for a month.

And you should subscribe for all sorts of other reasons, including my own meager contributions.

So if you can become a member, that would be wonderful. And let's get started with the talking stuff with words.

Why do we start with the Texas thing?

So as listeners, I think no, I'm okay. I think Roe v Wade should be overturned. I'm okay with various states having the power to regulate abortion in various ways.

I think it would be better for America if we had sent the abortion issue to the states from the beginning.

And I'm not alone in this. This is like even as people love to point out, this was Ruth Bader Ginsburg's position.

That Roe was so sweeping and short-circated.

A natural democratic process that probably would not have ended up where rabid pro-choicers are.

Nor would it have ended up where rabid pro-lifers are. And I use rabid advisedly, I just mean like hardcore.

It probably would have ended up where the American people have consistently been for a very, very, very long time, which is that they are basically pro-choice up through like the first trimester.

And they become more and more supportive or tolerant of restrictions as you move later in a pregnancy.

This is how laws and a lot of countries work. It's how I think it's where we would have ended up for the most part with probably some outlier states.

There are lots of pro-lifers who think that would have been terrible and they would have made arguments to that effect. And again, I don't want to labor my own position on abortion, but I've talked about it a bunch of times.

But I think that one of the things as a matter of sort of political analysis from a 30,000 foot level that gets left out of that is that there would be a lot fewer hardcore, passionate pro-lifers in America had it not been for Roe.

Roe was a galvanizing thing that created and effect the pro-life movement.

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