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In honor of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I’d like to remind everyone that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad–now living out the remainder of his ill-considered existence in the monastic surroundings of Gitmo–is somewhere around his 153rd trimester. If some court decided to retroactively declare Mr. Mohammad to be a postmature fetus and appoint a forward-thinking military doctor as his guardian ad litem, and–stay with me here–have that guardian order a safe and legal medical procedure to be performed on Mr. Mohammad by licensed medical practicioners with foreceps and caustic chemicals, can you imagine the epidemic of the vapors that would overcome the European Union? Do you suppose politicians and journalists might discover some straightforward, blunt, and euphemism-free way of describing that procedure? Even sensationalizing, just a bit?

Even if it was just a vasectomy?

Something about that seems amiss to me . . . you know, from a human rights perspective.