Roe vs Wade Overturned & The Illusions
Distraction? Sensationalisation? Another moral panic hitting the US? Yes, yes, and yes.
Whether it was intended this way or not, the Roe vs Wade decision by the Supreme Court has done an incredible job at steering the attention away from the Biden Administration’s failures, both domestic and abroad.
In his address given post-verdict, Biden claimed that “Roe vs Wade is on the ballot in November”, a tactic that the DNC have used in the past to convince the country that the red side is the ‘evil and oppressive’ side. Prior to the 2020 Presidential elections, Biden and his cronies repeatedly lectured the American public on how “democracy” was on the ballot. This seems to be the Democratic Party’s plan going into the midterm elections - cause as much chaos and unrest as possible, and then claim to holster the solutions. Why else are the January 6th hearings being shoved into every American’s faces? The recent gun law signed by Biden, the 1/6 hearings, the initial leaking of the Roe-Wade verdict and the current sensationalism surrounding the verdict, the escalation in Ukraine - it is pretty easy to come to the conclusion that it is not a coincidence that this is all happening at once. A beautiful distraction, another moral crisis for the American public to bite their teeth into as to overt their attention away from their inability to keep the lights on in their children’s bedrooms.
The Supreme Court’s Friday decision to overturn the 1973 ruling, represents a victory for women and children across the country, according to the Director of the American Victims of Abortion Outreach branch in the National Right to Life organisation, Olivia Gans Turner.
Of course, we are rejoicing that the Supreme Court has seen the need to overturn this dreadful decision that has led to millions of deaths of unborn children and harm to their mothers who have suffered the violence of abortion.
As per Worldometer, at the time of writing (25th June 7:15pm BST), there have been 20,574,100 abortions worldwide so far in 2022. Ms Gans Turner continues:
Many of us believe that our job is halfway done. This was the first step and now we must work even harder to pass protective pro-life laws across the United States, particularly in those states that are currently obstacle courses to those sorts of things.
Women like myself who have had abortions can rejoice today, because we realize that this is finally recognition that the children that we paid to have abortions for are human beings that should be respected and protected under the law.
As mentioned previously with Biden’s remark, the Supreme Court’s decision adds a new dimension to the importance of the gubernatorial and legislative races for the midterms, as the candidates will now propose and drive local abortion policies. Current state laws on abortion varied widely and continue to do so, and while no state could ban abortion under Roe, that restriction has now been tossed into the bin - democracy has been restored.
The Heartbeat Bill in Texas was initialised in September of 2021, which outlawed abortions once a heartbeat was detected. Additionally in 2021, Texas passed an Alternative to Abortion program, whereby $100m would be put forward to serve 150,000 women for three years after the birth of their child. Texas also houses more than 300 pro-life pregnancy centres, maternity homes, and adoption centres, that provide resources for women with unplanned pregnancies. The Texas legislature also passed the Texas Human Life Protection Act, which is a trigger law designed to go into effect if the Supreme Court overturned the Roe vs Wade verdict, which it now has. Now, most abortions are now banned in Texas. Other states with similar trigger laws in place are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, N-Dakota, Oklahoma, S-Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Wyoming.
Other claims about the reversal of the Roe verdict include sensationalist claims that interracial marriage and alike are now at risk, and that the verdict was a domino-effect. Joy Reid of course, hopped on this hysteria, and falsely told her audience that the decision “could apply to almost anything”, in not just prohibiting interracial marriage, but overturning the Brown decision - Brown vs Board of Education - also parroted by a former Clinton Attorney General, Eric Holder. Such a motive might come as a surprise to Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, given their own interracial marriages and families. This narrative, also blurted out by the New York Times, of course, is utterly untrue. To the contrary, the leaked draft opinion expressly states:
Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
Therefore, it is easy to assume that the purpose of the NYT’s commentary seems to be to inflame rather than inform. This aligns with the position of politicians and news-anchors who even before the leak, agreed on the need to reignite anger amongst voters to avoid a disaster in the midterms. On MSNBC for example, Rep Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) agreed with John Heiliemann that Democrats must, and I quote, “scare the crap out of [voters] and get them to come out”.
Polls show that 94% of Americans support interracial marriage, although the Times’ editors don’t bother to name the states that compose the 6%. The leading case on interracial marriage, Loving vs Virginia, was based on different constitutional grounds and would not be negated by this opinion. Then-Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote:
The clear and central purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to eliminate all official state sources of invidious racial discrimination in the States … There can be no doubt that restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the Equal Protection Clause.
None of this, of course, deters the cable news zombies from keeping alive the fear that interracial marriages could soon be criminalised. As compromised and now unfunny ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel declared:
They’ll come for same-sex marriage, they’ll come for interracial marriage, they’ll outlaw that peanut butter that comes with the jelly in the same jar.
What happened to him? Used to be somewhat tolerable.
On to same-sex marriage, in 2015, the court voted 5-4 to strike down bans on gay marriage. Once again, the court in this draft opinion distinguishes abortion from other areas as involving claims of an “unborn human life”. Nothing in the opinion endorses or idealises a ban on gay unions. Even before the draft was leaked however, there were calls for a a more articulated foundation than the one laid out in Obergefell vs Hodges. Putting this aside, the politics on this issue have long changed - polls show that 70% of Americans support same-sex marriage.
Roe is not the basis for all of these rights, and never was intended to be.
There is no constitutional delegated power that gives the Federal government the right to say anything at all about marriage, interracial, gay or otherwise.
An apocalyptic post-Roe hell-scape can be a motivating image, but only to the extent that it is credible. The problem is that the claims are detached from both legal and political realities.
Whether you like it or not, abortion is not seen by the Blue States as a ‘health’ issue in the way that the majority of the pro-choice activists do, it is a business. Abortion is a marketable and profitable business in the eyes of the blue-badges.
If these pro-choice protestors wanted full control of their reproductive abilities, then they could stop being sexually promiscuous for a start. It would certainly be nice to see a return to the millenia-old standard of not engaging in sexual behaviour unless you are in a relationship/married to your partner. Values, self-respect, and morals are ever-hard to come by in the West nowadays it seems.
And now, just as we did in the summer of 2020 during the BLM riots, we will get to watch degenerates drive cars into shop windows and burn their own country’s flag, whilst the Democrats stand by and provide bricks and rocks.
As The Babylon Bee put it: “Dems pause Jan 6 hearings to call for insurrection”. Poetic.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.