Culture of Life: Exploration and Manifesta

Preface:
You know of my liking for serendipities. Magical alignments, and so forth. Meeting Irigaray was a magical alignment of vast and prodigious proportions, for example. Well, this week, we are worrying over the Alito confirmation, the possibility of filibuster and consequent civil war inside the Senate in which I imagine Massachusetts will secede from the union. And Diane Rehm had a discussion Thursday past about the short term legal consequences of Roe being overturned (note: 15 states have laws on the books that criminalize some or all abortion, and are just waiting for Roe to fall so the laws can go into effect, we need federal legislation, a constitutional amendment). It was extremely interesting. And then I had a conversation with a friend about the whole thing, a friend who is a not-much-practicing Catholic, and we got on the subject of “culture of life.” One of Pope JPII’s favorite phrases of which Irigaray makes much feminist hay. Serendipity. And I got to thinking…