Abortion, Dobbs, Roe, Casey

 

Abortion, Dobbs, Roe, Casey

 The left in this country, and that includes the current crop of democrats who embrace the “woke” or “progressive”, left, would like to see the country run on emotion, particularly a destructive, blinding anger and violence to anything that they don’t like.  But the country doesn’t run on emotion.  It runs on laws.  And no matter how perverted our executive and some of our legislators become, we have a judicial arbiter, the Supreme Court, (SCOTUS), which will not allow dubious or destructive, emotionally driven rules to stand.

 I do not have a legal background, but I can read quite well.  It had been evident to all from the get-go, that Roe vs Wade (1973) was an emotional decision establishing abortion as a right, that had no basis in the constitution.  Planned Parenthood vs Casey (1992) effectively attempted a “Fix” to Roe by restating that the source of the privacy right that undergirds women's right to choose abortion derives from the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. constitution.  Casey also invoked “stare decisis”, the precedent of Roe Vs Wase.

 The very personal and very emotional question of abortion as a “right” versus abortion as a baby killer has pervaded our society for 50 years.  The constitutional legality of abortion has been in doubt since Roe in 1973, and continued after Casey in 1992.  Emotions and dubious polls whipped up by pro-abortion activists prevented a rigorous legal evaluation of abortion until this most recent SCOTUS session.

 Anticipating the “winds of change”, abortion operatives stole Justice Alito’s draft copy of the coming SCOTUS decision on abortion, setting off illegal demonstrations at Justices’ homes, and an attempt on Justice Kavanaugh’s life.  Merrick Garland and the Justice Department allowed illegal intimidation of SCOTUS justices, and the left-wing media effectively swept the assassination attempt under the rug.

 The SCOTUS justices were undeterred, and diligently stuck to the law.  They returned a 6-3 decision on June 24, 2022, to overturn Roe vs Wade and Planned Parenthood vs Casey.

 From Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe and Casey – Delivered by Justice Alito:

 “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled.

 The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

 Also:

 “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives. “The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations, upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.”

 Also:

 "Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives."

  

As expected, the rhetoric from the left is full of lies, invective and calls to violence.  After all, they did not get their way, and their reaction leaves no room for rational discourse, only emotion, hysteria and violence. 

 The Dobbs v. Jackson decision doesn’t make abortion illegal; it just sends the decision as to whether or not to outlaw it back to the states. AOC demanded that pro-abortionists go “into the streets,” and Rep. Maxine Waters declared, “The hell with the Supreme Court. We will defy them!”  Nancy Pelosi has called upon her followers to “rise up.” Insurrection? Count on it.  Chuck Schumer said "one of the darkest days our country has ever seen." (At least he didn’t threaten justices by name, as before).  With leaders like these, is it any wonder that the poor, uninformed sheep that follow the “progressive” democrats are misguided?

 After 50 years of fearfulness and skirting around, and trying to rectify really a really bad SCOTUS decision, like trying to put lipstick on a pig, this Supreme Court found the courage to reverse the really weak Roe and Casey rulings, and send the issue back to the people in the states.  With this and the Second Amendment carry ruling, it is encouraging to see that this court is taking the constitution seriously, and not as a “living document”, to be changed at liberal whim.

 Ray Gruszecki

June 25, 2022