Kind of like you know

Back in the days when I annoyed people as Miss Authoritiva, I made this comment at The Talking Dog about the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Whenever my Republican acquaintances go all hoo-yah on me about Bush loading up the Supreme Court etc, I just mutter, "There go the property taxes."

They invariably respond, "What?" And I delicately point out that once all those babies kind of like you know actually start getting born they'll be kind of like you know actually existing and we're going to need extra landfills for all the icky disposable diapers and the kids will kind of like you know actually need healthcare and will eventually kind of like you know actually be going to school (No Child Left Behind and all) and some of them will have kind of like you know special needs and some might kind of like you know actually be put up for adoption but maybe the faith-based faiths can kind of like you know actually take care of them but if not then the state will have to and really Bush and Powell shouldn't be doing the guest worker two-step with Vicente Fox because kind of like you know actually we are going to have enough demographic stress going on with our own guest babies.

And then it kind of like you know actually hits them.

Okay, it's heavy handed -- but it's still a critical point to be kept in mind whichever side of the debate you take.

If Roe v. Wade is overturned and the legal battles return to the states, the birthrate will go up, more in some places than others, to be sure, but it will go up. I'd like to think that our government will be doing a little more advanced planning about this than it did for the war on Iraq.