I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!

Miriandra, the bill you suggested makes eminent sense, is highly logical, and tracks existing laws about organ donation and use of discarded tissue (in the wake of the uncompensated use of Henrietta Lacks' cell line). So long as Manchin is in the Senate, it'll never pass.

The only reason to grit our teeth and keep Manchin & Sinema from getting primaried is that we need 50 Senators + a VP with a "D" after their name in order to retain a majority. We want substance, but musn't discount the value of holding the procedural advantage--especially control of committee composition & assignments, as well as the biennial opportunity to set Senate rules. We need to not just retain a Democratic majority in the Senate, but also flip two seats in order to offset Manchinema's prioritizing campaign donors over their constituents. Why not let them get primaried by true Democrats when their terms are up for reelection? Because since AZ is a purple state and WV an extremely red one, if anyone to the left of them becomes those states' Dem. Senate nominees they will be roundly defeated (likely by double digits) by GQP nominees.

So as distasteful as it is, we need to hold our noses and put up with them--at least until we can get a >52-vote majority.

Now that we have the GQP Senators on record as opposing codifying Roe v. Wade, we need to at least protect the status quo (until we get more solid majorities) by voting for the Murkowski-Collins proposed bill. Yeah, it's far less than ideal but it would stop the erosion of reproductive freedom in its tracks. I know none of my fellow liberals (much less any progressives) want to hear this, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Take what we can get and build on it.

Just because this is just when I found it:

Jackie, good point re: the possible explanation for Putin's "extreme social distancing."

It is a difficult lesson to learn today--to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

and I think, why would he ( a judge ) do otherwise. The whole 1/6 -- before, during and after was a huge miscalculation by many, many Reps. and turned into an immediate horror, and these losses have created one big pile.

Yes, let's leave abortion up to the individual states just like slavery was left up to the individual states until 1863, because that worked out so very well......

We in the West don't think much in terms of balance, and obviously we should. Even the very thought of an exquisite union and balance of all our forces, both physical and mental, has a gentle, hopeful ring to it. . . . All of us must find a bridge between our physical and spiritual parts. When that balance is achieved, what a happy comfort for ourselves!

Edward J. Lavin

And another one:

She made the right call Ruth....I'm wondering why anyone, woman or man who is more or less ignored, should be happy to try and make his or her party successful. Then again, men find it easy to overlook -- especially if its one of them. It just seems to me to be natural to work with people who are willing to work with you. Men ( not all of them ) find it so easy to be takers and then decide it is their due forever. The privileged class who have to find people to be superior to and that becomes us.

Then again, I guess that is why other Reps. don't label Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, MTG and those types because that is a big box of rocks to name. There must be some Reps. who have at least a few working brain cells -- but it seems like they are still missing backbones if not all their brains because we are not hearing from them.