By DEXTER DUGGAN
PHOENIX — In the half-century after the U.S. Supreme Court invented the national “right” to permissive abortion, some things changed and some remained the same.
The biggest change was that the court finally admitted in 2022 that it had been completely wrong in 1973. It overturned its Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions of January 22, 1973, with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022.
It had been a historic journey from the bleak cold of deep winter, back when today’s septuagenarians were in their 20s, to the official arrival of summer on June 21, with septuagenarian and unrepentant pro-abortion President Joe Biden turning 80 the following November, a seriously impaired man with one foot already in the grave.
In 1973 no Supreme Court justice had seen ultrasounds revealing the vibrant activity of small babies in the womb. But by 2022 people for years had been putting their own photos of their babies before birth up on their refrigerator doors.
In 1973 people ran up their phone bills by making long-distance calls for news to snappy pro-life daily recorded updates like early pro-life leader Joe Scheidler’s in Chicago.
But for years now, people have gone to pro-life websites for lengthy perusal of developments, for no more than the cost of their regular Internet usage.
The goals of pro-lifers have remained the same, to help pregnant mothers and the infants alive inside them.
The aim of champions of permissive abortion has changed radically, from saying abortion should be “safe, legal and rare,” to shouting that any and all abortion must be widely available, up into countless tens of millions, and even pushing the death of babies who survive abortion.
In the 1970s, in addition to professionals like pro-life physicians and attorneys, pro-lifers were ordinary people felt called to action against the court’s imposition of an ignorant, arrogant deception.
That deception pretended to value individuals’ desire to be freed from unwanted pregnancies. But it actually was based on scorn for mothers and fathers who — as the population controllers and corporatists behind Roe and Doe thought — needed to be thwarted in their pro-natalist desires.
These mothers supposedly had no business “polluting the planet” with more than one or two babies. Instead, they belonged outside the home, chasing additional income in the jobs marketplace as the corporatists made it harder and harder for families to get by with just one wage-earner.
In the early 1970s pro-abortion elite Republican Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York vetoed pro-life legislation that attempted to undo the Empire State’s disastrous experiment with permissive abortion.
In the 2020s almost every Democratic governor is a radical pro-abortionist, like Gavin Newsom in California and specially “selected” Katie Hobbs here in neighboring Arizona.
Hobbs says there should be no restriction on late abortions. She gets her orders from Planned Parenthood and seeks to remove true choice by diverting money from pro-life centers that help women and giving it to abortionists.
What even most Democrats would have been ashamed of not long ago now is the game plan for radicals like Hobbs.
In the nineteenth century the Democratic Party was the official party of human slavery, then the party of enforced racial segregation well into the twentieth century. Democratic Party officials today would say their attitude toward blacks is different. However, their party maintains its longtime orientation toward systematically suppressing blacks, and eliminating them.
Abortion is the handiest tool these days, promoted by Planned Parenthood clinics strategically located in minority areas.
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a racist and eugenicist who proclaimed her desire to breed a human “race of thoroughbreds.” Which didn’t include what she and her eugenicist allies considered inferior people. It was a popular thought of progressives back in the first decades of the twentieth century, including in elite German circles.
After all, science had improved life in many ways, they thought, so it obviously should be applied to streamlining human development, too. Those with what were viewed as inferior qualities were “diseased.”
A professor at St. Louis University, William Brennan, Ph.D., later observed that there had been similar use of terminology by German National Socialists and then by U.S. pro-abortionists. He wrote a book, Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives.
At Amazon.com the book is described: “Shockingly relevant today, this hard-hitting study shows how dehumanizing language was and is being used to justify violent acts against vulnerable peoples — past and present — including the unborn, the elderly, women, Jews, and victims of Soviet tyranny. Dr. Brennan’s argument focuses on the plight of today’s unwanted, before and after birth and in the later stages of life.”
For decades pro-lifers have known these facts while pro-abortionists waved shiny objects to try to distract people. However, pro-lifers continue to reach out to inform the public.
In Arizona the major 2023 pro-life rally wasn’t in January but a month later, on February 23. Thousands of people marched around the state Capitol, where abortion queen bee Hobbs buzzes.
Phoenix’s ABC15, KNXV-TV, covered the demonstration. One of the people interviewed there was a black woman, Lori Zee Gray, who had been pushed into abortion as a teenager. She said the pro-lifers want to “save the lives of the preborns and the hearts and the souls of their mothers.”
Gray told the camera that when she became pregnant at age 17, a school counselor referred her to Planned Parenthood, which referred her for an abortion when she was 20 weeks pregnant.
She said, “I didn’t know that, and they performed an abortion. Damaged my cervix. My heart. My spirit. My soul.”
The television story said Gray wants to make sure that women today know they’re not alone and there are resources to help them.
The news report concluded with a reporter saying, “A sea of people with signs marched around the Capitol, some even singing.” And Gray said, “Women deserve better than abortion and babies absolutely deserve to live, and so that’s why we march.”
A few days before the march, a longtime Phoenix pro-life pregnancy center held its annual fund-raiser in suburban Scottsdale, on February 18, where about 210 people filled a dining room for brunch from a row of chafing dishes before they made out their pledges to provide financial support.
The First Way pregnancy center had been founded in an old house even before the Supreme Court legalized permissive abortion in 1973 because some pregnant mothers here headed westward to neighboring California, where abortion already had been signed into law by GOP Gov. Ronald Reagan, who made no secret that he later regretted his action and wrote a pro-life book as president.
Today First Way has a modern two-story building on Phoenix’s North 16th Street.
First Way executive director Katie Wing told the brunch that more than 100 mothers and 25 fathers participate weekly in its programs.
One speaker told the audience that nowhere in the Bible does God say to run and hide, but to stand and fight. Another speaker said that even if a baby survives a botched abortion these days, her life isn’t safe. He added that when people come to First Way, they aren’t bombarded with questions about why they’re there, but are shown love and compassion.
Devastating The
Black Community
On February 28 Newsweek posted an article by pro-lifer Benjamin Watson highlighting the devastation that permissive abortion brings to his black community as well as the rest of the nation.
Noting that “as with any unfavorable outcome, when America catches a cold, black America catches the flu,” Watson wrote: “Black women are nearly four times as likely to have an abortion as their white counterparts. Recent studies have found that for every 100 live births, nearly 12 white babies will be aborted, while nearly 43 black babies will die by abortion for every 100 live births.”
The Newsweek identification said Watson is “a former NFL player, author and VP of Strategic Relationships for Human Coalition, a national pro-life organization. His new book, The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice, will be released in June.”
Watson wrote for Newsweek, “In the public square, the staggering black abortion rate deserves more attention and substantive dialogue than it is currently receiving. No, abortion is not health care, and no, our social ills are not the result of pathology. Talking points, quick stats, and self-serving punch lines are devoid of compassion, solutions, and truth. Our women and children are worth more than shallow debate and lip service.”
However, the likes of pro-abortion radical Katie Hobbs and her Planned Parenthood handlers generally are spared from adverse attention for what they promote because their supporters are the abortion-loving publicity arm, the dominant media, like The Arizona Republic newspaper here.
If it were left to these media, the lack of constitutional support in the law for abortion slaughter wouldn’t be exposed. Their attitude is that abortion is good, and what else matters about how it got legalized?
However, Roe and Doe long were recognized by legal experts as a fiction blindly imposed by “raw judicial power,” as one of the two dissenting justices in 1973, Byron White, had described it.
When Dobbs was handed down, a National Public Radio report said last June 24: “Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that the 1973 Roe ruling and repeated subsequent high court decisions reaffirming Roe ‘must be overruled’ because they were ‘egregiously wrong,’ the arguments ‘exceptionally weak’ and so ‘damaging’ that they amounted to ‘an abuse of judicial authority’.”
The NPR report said, “Alito’s opinion is a tour de force of the various criticisms of Roe that have long existed in academia.”
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