What earns abortion, and Roe vs. Wade, the presumption of immunity from such discipline? Little else but the jut-jawed determination of "women's rights" organizations to have Roe though the heavens fall -- and their altogether impressive success at intimidating male senators into agreeing with their viewpoint. Roe doesn't have to be right. It needs only to be sacred. Which it is; and if you don't think so, you didn't watch the Roberts hearings. You didn't watch senators like Kennedy try to make a nominee for chief justice squirm and even abase himself in hopes of averting embarrassment.

 The odd piece of freight here is that senators who insist on maintenance of what Roberts, in an old memo, called "the so-called right to privacy" -- these are the ones who should be putting grocery sacks over their heads. They've no constitutional leg to stand on, save that out-of-the-blue assertion by the court majority in Roe 32 years ago -- yet because they agree so heartily with that assertion, they want it to stand forever. And as for you, Judge John Roberts, if you don't like it that way, you can take your brilliance and character and you can just -- get lost, that's what!

 Which it now seems he won't have to. And neither will the many -- may their tribe increase over time -- who see right through the balderdash that constitutes current abortion law.