For fifty years, many Americans grew to believe that abortion was an inalienable right, and now it is not. While Americans on the right see the Dobbs v Jackson Woman’s Health Organization decision as a moral wrong righted and the great many others see it, emotionally, as a great tragedy, I think it would be most useful for both sides to see it as it truly is, a legal decision.
There be myths here. Abortion is not outlawed by the supreme court. That should be the rude awakening for either side that thinks abortion is ‘done’. Dobbs hands abortions back to the states. If you’re pro-abortion and live in California, you’ll have no problem getting one. If you’re pro-life in California, Dobbs did nothing for your side. Roe v Wade federalized abortions for fifty years. Dobbs hands it back to the states, a matter of federalism.
The Roe v Wade people got lazy; in fact, maybe they were lazy fifty years ago. They’re beyond angry now, mostly being blind to how their government works, but assume if they indeed knew, their anger would be because they (collectively) now have to do the hard work necessary to get the abortion guarantee they want. No more shortcuts, no more fanciful bastardized renderings of the constitution. Our United States is chartered as a union of independent states that must be respected. Legislatures make laws, judiciaries mediate and interpret those laws. Laws come from elected bodies, and elected bodies come from votes. Votes come from people and people vote mostly upon their conscience. The pro-abortion crowd believes and touts that they hold a majority of people in favor of abortion. If that were the case, they could make abortion legal in all fifty states this year. In an even broader swipe, Congress attempted a legalization bill, Women’s Health Protection Act 2021. In a Democrat held House, Senate, and White House, it was defeated. While I’m not qualified to parse the specifics, I can only report that some notable Democrats in good standing could not pass the bill in good conscience as it guaranteed abortion virtually up to infanticide. Nothing less would do for the ‘true believers’ and now they have no compromise, nor did they want one. To the hypothetical poor woman victim pleading for an abortion, they said, ‘we’ll take the war instead’. This is how your Democrat overlords work.
Personally, I and most conservatives are amenable to the ‘heartbeat’ standard of abortion regulation. If someone has cause to suspect pregnancy either symptomatically or from the expectant outcome of unprotected sex, do what you’re going to do quickly or else make room in your lives for the human child you and someone created. The pro-abortion death crowd considers this too to be ‘outlawing abortion’, thus I have no sympathy for these people. Speaking of no sympathy, that to extends to all the male champions of abortion out there. These simps transform themselves into gods of feminine compassion and sympathetic saviors when the topic of abortion comes up and no one has the honesty to point out their conflicted interest, personally and societally: avoiding eighteen years of statutory child support and quite often, marriage. Collective man can pay a few bucks and skip into the sunset. I’d prefer they just shut up. I don’t need an abortion and personally believe they’re murder after a certain point, but I hesitate to preach morals to the woman that honestly feels they want one. I can however, insist that such a woman and women collectively respect our legal and constitutional framework needed to acquire that abortion.