Roe v Wade needed to be repealed, not overturned. The Supreme Court of the United States, consisting of nine men, got it wrong in 1973; and in Dobb’s v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in 2022, a SCOTUS made up of six men and three women got it wrong, again. Sending bad federal law back to the states to have them create more bad law, and then attempting to make federal exception carve-outs from that ‘more bad state law,’ such as is suggested here, is not a solution; it is a final recipe for disaster. This country cannot survive another half century of bad law falsely claiming to be about “medical care,” that is in reality an attempt—by females AND males—to impose draconian civil control over the fundamental essence of a free “life,” and what it is to be human.
This, the more than five decades of a second American Civil War (of blue against pink this time), and the attempted politico-medical coup by the current insurgent regime, MUST end.
The right to an abortion was, and is, bad law, just for starters, because the initial legal argument that there should be such a “right” was based on lies, and the decision was perpetuated as “law,” by way of lies:…lies about what the Constitution does and does not say (or imply); lies about “privacy,” sex, and sexuality; lies about women, and a supposed group-think declaring what “ALL” women “want”; lies about rape, and what does and does not constitute the act of rape; lies about babies not being human beings (and thus, “persons”) until some indeterminate time after their initial biological creation, to be decided and decreed by the completely non-scientific authority of the State, no less; lies about what a medical abortion is, and does, to both the child in the act, and to the mother, during, and long after the act, and that the procedures are “safe”—when one person is sure to die, and the other might also, or is very likely, at the least, to suffer severe and life-compromising injury (about which she is not properly warned); there have even been lies about the ridiculous concept that women, only, don’t lie, ever, about having sex…or being raped… But most importantly, this cataclysmically bad law has served up more than fifty years of lies about this thing, this word people toss around and use somewhat indiscriminately, at times, because we all should know something about it, but despite the commonness of the word, it seems like fewer and fewer people in this country have any legitimate understanding or concept of what it means…lies about the human ability to separate from the -LOVE- that is why we have survived as a species, and under which we were founded, as a nation.
In the case of Roe v Wade, there has been also, ample, clear, public evidence indicating the female attorneys who brought the suit (hiding their client’s name under the pseudonym ‘Jane Roe’) against Henry Wade, the male district attorney of Dallas County, Texas, had a hidden agenda of their own, i.e. a severe conflict of interest (so questionable legal ethics, effectively constituting yet another lie). Much of these lawyers’ side agenda was political. It was about their own aspirations to have power, and to be part of a “movement” to “empower women.” None of this had anything to do with their client’s complaint, which was, in practical reality, about a working woman not having access to competent medical care for herself and her children, born or unborn, as part of her and her child’s “right”…to “life” under the Constitution.
This case was never about “a woman’s control over her own body.” And it was never about “choice,” when the only option offered was the “right” of a woman to demand a doctor kill her unexpected or unplanned-for son or daughter before that baby had the opportunity to be born. It was about an overspent welfare system that did not want babies being born to women who did not have the financial means to take care of them and raise them, in a society that denied most women a livable wage, and offered medical care prejudicially to primarily men in higher paying jobs. At the same time, males, married or not, especially powerful and privileged ones, were being taught by this same culture (and legal system), that because of specific developments in medical care for women (that she may or may not have access to), a male now had an entitlement to have sex with no responsibility with any woman he “chose.”
Roe v. Wade was dreadful, bad law because “Jane Roe,” Norma McCorvey, a woman and a mother, was used by this country’s legal/political system for the system’s own purposes. She was not afforded protection under the law by virtue of the case as was her “right” as an American citizen; she was simply used. And given that Norma McCorvey, a living, breathing, able to bleed, human being who happened to be female was not compensated for said “use,” it is a credible argument that she, herself, instead of receiving protection under the law, was, in fact, violated under the law by the United States legal/political system as per the provisions for her rights as a free person under the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Completely omitted from the public narrative about this landmark (and, legitimately Earth-shattering) case, were the facts, Jane Roe, long before Roe v Wade, had never been afforded her “right” to protection under the law, repeatedly, in the face of abuses she’d suffered extending from her own birth, childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood, living as a female person in the peculiarity that is “modern” American poverty. And equally, the father of the child she sought to abort was not held to any accountability or responsibility toward Jane Roe or his kid. Nor was/were the father(s?) of her previous two children held accountable in like kind. By the time of Roe, Norma McCorvey had been compelled already to offer two babies from two previous pregnancies for adoption, due, undoubtedly, in no small part to her working poverty (as a waitress, which meant she had no healthcare for herself, much less her children, no daycare during their infancy and toddlerhood, and likely had insufficient means, on a waitress’s wages—with or without “tips”—to pay for rent and groceries for her children or herself, as well.) So, she was subject to the State’s and the capitalist American culture’s arrogant instant assessment (in the face of ever-attempting to pretend this country is not the world’s leading creator of, and accessory to the perpetuation of poverty so people can be “used” as “cheap labor”) giving up her babies for adoption was what Norma McCorvey should do…since she had no money and was living in a sick, financially, social system that offered her only one thing, an ongoing terrorism that said, no matter how hard or effectively she worked at the level assigned to her, she could not AFFORD to be alive, much less be responsible for the life of someone else.
How is it so many, especially other women, find it impossible to understand why this woman did not want to go through that again, the challenges that are any pregnancy, only to feel she had no other “choice” but to give away her newborn she carried to term and delivered, for the third time? How is it possible so many think the solution to her situation was to have the State compel her, with the phony coercion that it was “medical care” and her “choice,” to instead have a doctor end her third child’s life before he or she could be born. This country has the audacity to call THAT “medical care” for a woman carrying a healthy pregnancy—really? Really, United States of America, that’s the best you have to offer in the supposed “greatest country on earth”?
The decision rendered about the case, both times, reveals a cowardly attempt at a quick-fix solution to the Court’s discomfort with the complicated details of the should-be largely private topic(s) being pled. Roe, in the original decision, also appears to be an all-male Court’s dodge in attempting (incompetently, and arguably with depraved indifference and prejudicial malice in the form of age discrimination toward the unnamed, third-party person to the matter) to offer blanket, before-the-fact and before-any-charges (much less a verdict), automatic, civil redress for the victim of a specific criminal act, by way of placing a mandate on a medical system over which the Court had no authority, for the potential aftereffects of a criminal offense (the central lie of the case) that is committed primarily against women. The Court’s negligence and cowardice in this regard, instead further aided and abetted future prosecutorial neglect—most of it male, against the perpetrators, almost exclusively male, of the lied-about crime at the heart of the case, in a culture that was undergoing massive shifts in attitudes, ideas, and beliefs about sexuality in the face of never-before-available medical/scientific knowledge and treatment modalities able to interfere directly with human conception, but also able to intervene dramatically in a life-preserving way for the very young, along with everyone else.
The obvious failure of the Justices to look at the larger picture of what was being argued; to familiarize themselves with the relevant, medical/scientific knowledge (and in the case of the recent overturn, how that knowledge has changed dramatically since 1973, including its use in forensics, and the capacity to positively identify paternity, pre-partum); and to reach deep inside to find their own, personal “humanness,” both times, on the part of the Court reveals this entire, decades-long exercise in “bad law” to be nothing short of unconscionable.
And if all of the above were not bad enough, most critical, has been the high Court’s failure to discern (and discuss publicly) the case represents just the tip of an iceberg of underlying social fear due to the miscarriage of justice which derives from the abject failure and disgrace of the United States of America, among all modern wealthy nations, being a stand-alone of delinquency in the creation of a monetarily and otherwise equitably-accessible, nationalized system of competent and highly-skilled medical care which prioritizes individual patient needs, not purveyor and shareholder profits—much of the latter as a result of mass medical miseducation by the profiteers, especially through their mass marketing, and the teachings of their accomplices, the so-called elite institutions of higher learning offering PhD programs in medical science and medical schools for the training of practicing doctors.
The resultant anger and hate deriving from this much broader, unaddressed fear that was the true heart and significance of the case from the beginning, for most women, is arguably the nidus of our massive drug abuse problems, and more recent issues with a declining American life expectancy due to “deaths of despair,” including suicide.
The glaring leap coming out of the sexist logic, medical idiocy, disgrace, and affront to ALL American women and girls by the all-male original Court is revealed in their apparent assumption, reaching the level of no less than a belief, presumably, in the majority opinion members (because it was something at least seven of the nine wanted to hear), that the untruth (undoubtedly offered as “fact” by the politically-radicalized female attorneys pleading the original case), that women, in general, have exactly the same attitude toward, and priorities about, sexual activity as males do, is true, and other than a concern about the potential for becoming pregnant as a result, their belief included a conviction women desire to engage in sex with “equal” enthusiasm and vigor as the majority of males.
Thus, with abortion as a “right,” no pregnancy equals no foul. Case closed. Without there being evidence of concurrent physical harm, rape could no longer be …nor had to be… proven.
So, the bad law based on lies engendered a widespread false belief among the general public that by offering abortion as a “right,” the delusional—and one would hope extremely uncomfortable—high Court had the power, by way of waving its magic gavel, to make women, “equal” to men (never mind that there is no biologic definition of “equal” because it does not exist), so people could go about their modern lives, thanks to the American medical system, having as much sex as “everyone” wanted…right?
Excuse me??? We’ve suffered half a century of hell on Earth already in this country. Need I remind the high Court a majority opinion (of the Court or the general population) has no standing in matters of consensual sexual intercourse at the outset, ever, because it is about two, individual people only, always, period. And in the case of an unexpected pregnancy, the ONLY potential tie-breaker ‘vote’ on the appropriateness of an abortion, from the child involved, is, always has been, and always will be disenfranchised by way of he or she never having a voice in the matter, ever.
All of this has resulted in massive, deadly, destructive miseducation among the masses, and an insidious, uncompromising, and unending terrorism targeting specifically our children and any American woman, or man, entertaining thoughts of wanting to have, and Love, a child. We’ve become a State sponsor of terror against the essence of being human.
How, on Earth, could the United States of America have fallen to this?
This country needs, desperately, a complete re-vamping of its medical system, starting with how we pay for it, securely…and individually, from conception, to grave, for each person, no matter what happens along the way (please see Policies for the People People's Mandate Healthcare for All Americans https://www.facebook.com/100036084640155/ . And this medical system needs to be restored to being both humane and sane by way of the complete removal of ALL profiting, third-party interests who provide no hands-on, active with patients, medical “help” whatsoever from that system, starting with monetary interests called health insurance companies (offering an impossible concept that, in reality, does not exist), and extending to and through those influencing Congress, as well as medical education on all levels (including via mass media) and research. These currently improperly profiting entities, under the above proposal, are reduced to one role only, going forward, that being to PAY for the vastly improved and constantly getting better in service to humanity, system, in perpetuity. Otherwise, the power over what does and does not happen to one’s own body (a woman’s, or a man’s, or a child’s) is returned to the People, as the individual owners of just one body, each, that should never be controlled by the State without due process.