I’m really sick and tired of the misrepresentation of Roe...

I’m really sick and tired of the misrepresentation of Roe...

I’m really sick and tired of the misrepresentation of Roe v Wade in the US. The US is different because it has a written Constitution that defines its citizens’ rights. The Supreme Court exists to make sure no laws contravene these rights. The Roe v Wade ruling said that the written rights included “aborting a baby as a contraception” and was almost immediately amended to add “up to and including birth”. Even Ruth Bader Ginsberg said this was invalid, but it stuck… no-one expected it to remain, but it did. All the SCOTUS did was correct the original error: that the Constitution does not include the right to abort a baby up to birth based on the whim of the mother. It did NOT say abortion is wrong, as this is not its job. Doing so is the job of the House… and only the House. If it believes that this type of abortion, up to 9 months for no other reason than choice (as mother’s health, etc was already law), should be legal then it should rule so… it has nothing to do with SCOTUS who only says if something is in the Constitution or not. All that the Court said was that it wasn’t in the Constitution and thus needs the government to make, or not, it into a law. No clock has been turned back, and no other country is affected as other countries already work like this: that each country’s government makes its own laws
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Half-Polish / Half-Italian British-born artist-cum-photographer who earned a living as a designer and artist between jobs as a teacher and IT Comms specialist (CV and other details via [profile] above.) A baritone, autistic polymath, and member of Mensa (6σ IQ), I am Jan Szafranski and also known as The Sadistic Scribbler.

Started out as a comic book artist (first underground in the '70s to mainstream in the late '80s) before teaching art & photography to teens. Moved into computers, web-design, photo-manips, etc. before returning to teaching in 2002.

In 2006 I temporarily lost my sight (right in the middle of a lesson with Year 11s), regained it but then started on the slow downhill decline that comes with MS… including pain, fatigue, vision & cognitive problems, and tremors & spasms. Add to that recent development of osteoarthritis, and all of which make drawing, painting and photographing very difficult when not in remission.

I’m now 'sorta-retired' because of the symptoms, but will still accept art or photography commissions, as well as website designs and IT consultancy. More details of which can be found on my business site: www.idea-technology.co.uk and artist portal: www.sadisticscribbler.co.uk.

I am currently working on developing my use of digital painting. Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Digital painting differs from other forms of digital art, particularly computer-generated art, in that it does not involve the computer rendering from a model, nor does it use the computer to automatically generate a pseudo-painting. Instead, the artist uses traditional painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer as if it were just another brush or medium.

I create the painting, directly on my PC, by using various painting software. The tablet can be compared to a canvas or watercolor paper surface, while the stylus pen or mouse is my paintbrush.

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