Heartbeat

The Supreme Court has acceded to Texas' bill limiting abortion to six weeks or less. This amounts to a Federal repeal of Roe v Wade, as it should be.

Now: the other side.

This bill selects for procrastinatrices giving birth - as Richard Spencer notes on his Twitter. Another good point, from another Dick On The Internet, is that we'll be seeing a lot more Downs babies in Texas and other red-states. Elsewhere and elsewhen, once would-be parents find out that their future babies are coming up with that extra chomosome, those babies are gone. The usual statistic is 80%.

This, because Downs testing typically gets done at ten weeks not six. Pace Cerno (as too often), the European-Catholic standard considered normative is to allow up to 90 days or 84 days (12 weeks). I much doubt that is by accident, so I expect a push to improve Downs testing so it can be done earlier.

By the way I'm outing Andorra, Monaco, and Liechtenstein as virtue-signalling hypocrites for their "bans". Their borders are walking-distance of France, a twelve-weeker and - from what I'm seeing - loose in practice even after that. San Marino, I'll allow, lies in the middle of Italy; Malta is an island. Back to Texas, famously that state is the size of France so a ban actually means something there.

I would expect Texans to get more serious about contraception than it has been, but more likely - because Texans ain't that bright - is a rise in "shotgun" marriages. And women doing this procedure out of state.

EUGENICS 9/3: The shoe fits, contra common misconceptions; although male Downs are sterile, females aren't. At least: not always. There are other congenital defects which do better, like dwarfism, which also get screened out in utero. Or like... being female.