By CHRISTOPHER MANION
Last week’s release of Justice Alito’s draft opinion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization continues to roil the pro-abortion Left nationwide. If left intact in the Court’s published opinion later this term, the opinion will send Roe v. Wade’s to the constitutional dustbin, where it belongs.
While we might prefer to let Roe peacefully decompose next to Dred Scott v. Sandford and Plessy v. Ferguson, abortion advocates will undoubtedly seek to resuscitate the fetid cadaver in every possible way.
Justice Alito’s no-nonsense analysis patiently and thoroughly eviscerates Roe’s reasoning, but abortion advocates were never interested in the Roe Court’s flimsy argument in the first place — only the result: abortion on demand. Their reaction to Alito’s draft thus features as much irrational fury as it lacks a serious and reasoned response.
In keeping with that spirit, Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) pounded the table, demanding that the Senate vote on the latest version of Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s legislation attempting to “permanently nationalize Roe v. Wade.” Insisting that every senator be forced to vote “on the record” on the issue, Schumer forced the Senate to vote on Wednesday, May 11 to end debate and to proceed to an up-or-down vote on the bill (to “end debate” means to invoke “cloture” and prevent the filibustering of the bill).
The vote on cloture was 49 in favor, 51 opposed: in the evenly divided chamber, Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) joined the Senate’s fifty Republicans, so the vote fell eleven votes short of the required sixty to invoke cloture.
While the final tally was not surprising, we note with regret that Sen. Bob Casey (D., PA), who once called himself “pro-life,” chose to vote with the rest of Schumer’s Democrats to make abortion legal up to, during, and possibly after birth nationwide (bearing in mind the views of former governor of Virginia and pediatrician Ralph Northam, an ardent advocate of “comfortable” infanticide).
On further inspection, the text of the Blumenthal legislation appears more suitable for a Saturday Night Live script than a serious attempt at intelligible prose. The bill’s title, the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” has not changed since last year, but Byron York observes how this year’s version, in keeping with the Left’s accelerating descent into chaos and oblivion, has changed every reference to “woman” in the original bill to “person” when asserting the “right” to abortion. In fact, this year’s version ties “reproductive justice” to every possible facet of the Gender Ideology.
“Reproductive Justice seeks to address restrictions on reproductive health, including abortion, that perpetuate systems of oppression, lack of bodily autonomy, white supremacy, and anti-Black racism,” the text reads. “This violent legacy has manifested in policies including enslavement, rape, and experimentation on Black women; forced sterilizations; medical experimentation on low-income women’s reproductive systems; and the forcible removal of Indigenous children. Access to equitable reproductive health care, including abortion services, has always been deficient in the United States for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and their families.”
To top it off, “Abortion-specific restrictions are a tool of gender oppression.”
Will They Go Quietly? No.
Well, the “oppressed” are mad as Hell, and they’re not taking it anymore.
Did we mention “Hell”? Yes, and we weren’t kidding. Last week a group calling itself “Ruth Sent Us” — an apparent bow to the revered Margaret Sanger acolyte and late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, took to Twitter with their bigoted blast:
“Stuff your rosaries and your weaponized prayer. We will remain outraged after this weekend, so keep praying. We’ll be burning the Eucharist to show our disgust for the abuse Catholic Churches have condoned for centuries.”
As if on cue, Fr. Christopher Plant, pastor of St. Bartholomew the Apostle Catholic Church in Katy, Texas, reported Monday, May 9 that “Our tabernacle was stolen last night. We don’t know who did it but the police are investigating. Please pray for us and for those who committed this criminal sacrilege.” (At press time, Katy Police Department investigator Lt. Stewart tells The Wanderer that the investigation continues, with several leads.)
Catholic churches in several states, as well as pro-life pregnancy centers, were also vandalized. Abortion advocates demonstrated not only in front of the homes of Catholic Supreme Court justices in the Washington area, but in front of, and even inside, churches nationwide as well.
We drove by Christendom College, in Front Royal, Va., on Sunday morning. The school is known for its strong role in the pro-life movement, often leading the March for Life. Warren County Sheriff Mark Butler had increased routine patrols near churches county-wide, but we wondered, will the school be a termagant target?
But then it occurred to us: Perhaps the Hissy-Fit Harridan Hordes realized that it would not go well for them if they disrupted Mass at the home of America’s national champion rugby team.
And speaking of harridans, Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Liz Warren, longtime purloiner of an Indian heritage proven to be a fraud, tried peddling another whopper. Sputtering with righteous hauteur after the vote, the senator known to friends as Fauxcahontas told CNN that “I believe in democracy, and I don’t believe that the minority should have the ability to block things that the majority want to do. That’s not in the Constitution.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) replied: “Um, a bipartisan MAJORITY of the Senate just voted down the Dems’ radical abortion bill. 51 is greater than 49, even using Harvard math. You don’t get to call the losing side the majority just because you agree with it.”
But Warren raged on. “What we’re talking about right now are the individual rights and liberties of half the population of the United States of America. I think that’s enough to say it’s time to get rid of the filibuster,” she asserted, ignoring the fact that Blumenthal’s bill wouldn’t have passed even had Democrats been able “to get rid of the filibuster.”
Abortion advocates rarely mention the fact that overturning Roe will not prohibit abortions nationwide. It will, however, remove their quasi-constitutional pretext for demanding abortion on demand nationwide. Overturning Roe will return the abortion issue — and undoubtedly several others — to the states, where that power resided before 1973.
For instance, just last month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed HB22-127, the Reproductive Health Equity Act, into law.
The new Colorado law allows abortions for any reason up until the moment of birth, and its debate and passage reflect the battle that will be joined in 49 other state legislatures as “Heartbeat Laws” like Dobbs are debated in some, while “Death on Delivery” laws like Colorado’s are debated in others.
So the finality of the Court’s pending opinion in Dobbs does not mean that the debate — and the rage — have ended. Quite the contrary: The coming months — both before and after publication of the Court’s final opinion on Dobbs — will feature decidedly unpleasant symptoms of continuing decay in some areas of public life, and impending collapse in others.
A few hours after the leaked draft of Justice Alito’s opinion was made public, Joe Biden told reporters: “The idea that we’re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think, goes way overboard.”
Forget the blather: It’s a “child,” Joe said — and the pro-aborts heard it.
More rage.
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