Whose body? Whose choice?
Trump strikes back from his political after-life.
The new thing for fanatical libs to get worked up about has arrived.
Yes, ‘Ukraine’ was fun for them, vaccinating kids was even better, and making everybody wear masks scratched a strange itch, but for the demented sociopathic liberal, nothing hits quite like abortion does.
When forced masking and injecting got off the ground (measures that did nothing to stop spread or excess death, for a virus with a fatality rate of less than half a percent), I wondered when people would notice the obvious irony.
These same lunatics were the ones who had told everybody for decades - my body, my choice!
Of course, that was always hypocritical in and of itself. The embryo and fetus are not ‘your body’. They have their own DNA, their own sex, their own heartbeat.
It turns out the hypocrisy of the pro-abortionists (don’t call them pro-choice - they want to end life and force you to pay for the barbaric procedure) did not register when it came to forcing people with natural immunity or no risk of dying from covid to get an injection with no real safety data.
We should have known not to expect any shame. These are the same people who locked up your kids whilst encouraging people to destroy public buildings and attack cops for the sake of perennial criminal and drug addict, George Floyd. These are the same people who tell us men can get pregnant.
The only consistency is destruction.
So why the turn to abortion?
Well, if rumours are true, Donald Trump’s appointees to the Supreme Court (Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett) have agreed, along with longtime conservative judges Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, to overturn the Supreme Court decision of 1973 to make abortion a ‘human right’ protected by the right to privacy.
That decision was known as Roe v Wade, after the then anonymous woman, ‘Jane Roe’, who sued the state of Texas, represented by Henry Wade, a state attorney, in order to be allowed access to abortion, which was then only permitted if the mother’s life was in danger.
Roe turned out to be Norma McCorvey, a Dallas waitress who had multiple affairs and gave up three children for adoption before the age of 22. The child she wanted to abort but could not is alive today and has children of her own. ‘Roe’ got her wish too late. Abortion on demand was made legal before she could abort her own. And now that decision may be overturned.
Somebody in the Court has leaked a purported forthcoming majority opinion from the conservative wing of the nine-member court, most likely in a bid to call out mobs and protestors to try to strangle the decision at its birth. This a serious breach in legal process and is another indicator that the polity of the world’s superpower is cracking.
First, some explanation is required.
In the US, issues like prayer in schools, gay marriage, abortion, mask-wearing and transgenderism, do not get decided by the elected rulers. Because of the extremism of the US ruling class, they prefer to reign over the underlings by fiat from the judicial bench. (Eventually, the public comes round, by virtue of the didactic quality of law and the propaganda peddled in sitcoms and rap music etc.) Despite the propaganda onslaught, most Americans are anti-abortion. The propaganda in this regard has not been nearly as successful as that behind the gay marriage or vaccine push.
Therefore the US government has had no law passed by Congress outlining abortion access. Just as it does not have a law passed declaring the legitimacy of gay marriage. These things were merely declared by the Supreme Court.
What this has meant is that the US has the most liberal abortion regime virtually in the world. Their partners in mass abortion are China and North Korea.
If the overturning of the decision conferring the near-absolute right to an abortion for women is confirmed, the issue will go to each of the fifty American states who will have to pass laws deciding the issue. It seems fairly certain that abortion in places like New York and California, where they are considering allowing ‘abortion’ after birth, will remain as widespread as ever. It just won’t be taken for granted that all American women can abort any pregnancy.
(Already in many conservative states, abortion has been made quite rare as state legislation pushes Roe v Wade to the limits. This is why the Supreme Court has had to revisit the issue. A 2018 Mississippi state law had banned abortion after fifteen weeks, challenging Roe v Wade. The law had been challenged by abortion proponents and the appeal had made its way up to the highest court in the US.)
The judge who has authored the upcoming decision, Samuel Alito, gave the following reasoning for his decision:
“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....
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
This is not radical. He is simply saying such issues should not be decided by a constitutional court, because abortion is not mentioned in the constitution. If it had been me, I would have declared the baby’s right to life protected by natural law.
It must be understood, abortion in America is not this rare procedure for tragic circumstances. It is a religious ritual. It is a bloody form of contraception. In New York in 2019, 25% of ALL pregnancies ended in abortion. Abortion is not used to end possible pregnancies after incestuous rape. It is used to prop up a culture of casual sex and the wondrous female ‘freedom’ to work in banks and shops and not be burdened in that pursuit by childbearing.
And yet, today and for many weeks hence, you will hear the screeching of liberal activists about female oppression and reproductive rights and the US being some kind of theocracy.
No - in their largest and most important city, a woman, without even mentioning it to the father, can get repeated abortions on demand.
And abortion is not painless and routine. The baby feels pain, writhes as the blade hits. Women are often plagued with guilt and remorse. (Just as those who believe that surgery can change their sex are often filled with suicidal regret.)
It is a serious event.
Most European countries, unlike the US, only allow abortion in the first trimester. Meanwhile, Americans try to convince themselves Obama was a normal Christian, when he famously supported abortion right up to and after birth - which even a radically leftist European would regard as barbaric. No, there is something sick and dark lurking in the heart elite America.
So what does this have to do with Donald Trump?
Many people are surprised when I tell them I am a fan of Trump, especially as a Christian.
But Trump is the most pro-life US president of modern times.
He outright declared in 2016 he would choose judges who would overturn Roe v Wade. This was not something other Republican candidates had done.
He was the first President to speak at the annual anti-abortion March for Life:
‘But what about his personal life? What kind of Christian is Trump? He is a hypocrite!’
My response: who cares.
Constantine and Charlemagne were terrible sinners. We look back in history and see the good they did for civilization and the Church.
Trump largely delivered what he promised.
No more wars. Pro-life judges. Massive reduction in illegal immigration.
This is why he won in 2016. He told Christian voters he would fight for them. They had tried apparently devout men like Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush, who had been terrible for Christians. They wanted a bodyguard in the face of a militant atheistic agenda on the part of media and big business. They got one.
Trump made plenty of mistakes. There can be no doubt of that.
But if his judges deliver what conservatives have claimed they wanted for thirty years, his legacy is secure.
And what’s more, many of the conservatives who opposed him because they deemed him too uncouth for their precious sacred norms of their fake democracy, will get ready to return him to power in 2024.
He is, after all, currently the most popular politician in the US, despite the demented and confused Joe Biden apparently winning more votes in 2020 than any other leader in human history.
Remember, Trump was not meant to win in 2016. Clinton and Obama believed his candidacy was fortuitous in that it would guarantee a win for Obama’s anointed successor and allow Clinton to complete Obama’s work by choosing liberal justices to dominate America for a generation.
When the shock came, media and intelligence agencies set about sabotaging the Trump presidency from its inception, inventing bizarre stories about Russia hacking and finally impeaching him for speaking to the Ukrainian president on the phone. (Strange how Ukraine keeps popping up. Whose kids make money in Ukraine? Worth checking out.)
These same forces would later ‘fortify’ the 2020 election to make sure the people did not make the ‘wrong’ decision again. It could also be argued that much of the covid hysteria was simply a psy-op against Trump and his threat to UN-style rule of the world’s most powerful nation.
But what they could not do, is prevent Trump from choosing judges. Trump had famously issued a list of potential nominees prior to his election to show he meant business. The media and Democratic party tried to sabotage his second choice, Brett Kavanaugh, by bizarrely creating a rape charge out of thin air, which only served to unite establishment Republicans around Trump for judicial appointments.
And whilst his judges did disappoint when it came to many other cases which came before them, it is likely they will hold the line on the biggest issue of them all.
If they do, get ready for a massive social meltdown in the US.
It is difficult for people to live together in a state when half believe killing babies is good and the other half believe it is evil.
Wars have been fought for a lot less.
"reign over the underlings by fiat from the judicial bench" is a bit severe. The fundamental aspect of American government is none of them can be trusted so we divide them into competing factions, each with a veto over the others. 535 elected representatives are typically venal politicians as likely to oppress the rest as any other group of dictators. The courts only determine whether the edicts they produce are consistent with other requirements, which is itself an opportunity to oppress, but is normally more or less fairly done. The constraint within the courts is cases must be agreed among a string of judges, and ultimately by a majority of the nine supremes. The fact that most cases that reach the court of last resort are decided by a thin 5-4 majority is a strong clue of the hopelessness of allowing anyone to make decisions for anyone else.
But the ultimate authority always remains with the people with their pitchforks and other tools who can rise up at any time and replace the oppressors who carry their authorities too far. Unfortunately, the people are as psychotic as the government, so life becomes an unending sequence of irrational acts from an unending string of those seeking power over others, from households to communities to nations and recently by international players with unprecedented delusions. In the end, we each make our own choices to conform or consent. Some do it better than others which is, at least, highly entertaining.
I have mixed feelings about this, which I articulated in depth here - https://wholistic.substack.com/p/roe-v-wade-and-vaccine-mandates - the short version is that I think the timing on this is really bad (as if there was ever a good time) and it's likely to give the government more control over everyone's bodies (i.e., vaccine mandates).