An Overturn of Roe v. Wade Now, Would Be Bittersweet

Greetings my fellow Americans!

As I’m writing this, the media universe is aswirl around the “leaked” news that the current Supreme Court of the United States may be about to rule against the landmark decision of the SCOTUS of 1973 to declare a woman’s decision to terminate her pregnancy a nationally and constitutionally protected right. Such a ruling would undoubtedly be seen as a significant collective step in the right direction by those who not only believe that the life growing inside the woman, and scientifically is a unique individual with DNA that differs from the mother, has unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness every bit as much as the person in whom he or she resides at conception.

And while I agree with this, I can’t help but think about how this will further expose the divisions in fundamental beliefs and worldviews between those who share this interpretation, and those who have bought into the notions that a woman has complete and unequivocal say over whether a new human being will be allowed to enjoy rights which theretofore had been formally recognized as coming from a Creator, and that, rather, the government is ultimately the grantor (and revoker) of rights, both to enable the woman to legally decide against allowing the new person to become an independent being, and to decide when that being’s rights to exist under our Constitution actually kick in.

This basic dichotomy in viewing how the world, and the human beings in it, came to be, and their ability to arbitrarily decide for themselves whether someone else deserves to live or die, goes to the heart of the principles of liberty upon which America was founded, and tears it asunder. We’ve been pretending for a long time now that our philosophical differences were reconcilable; while anyone with true faith in God knows that good and right will prevail, a lot of collateral damage can be wrought until that happens.

We became unmoored from our Creator-based foundation a long time ago, and our drift away, while slow, has been steady. We endured one bloody Civil War; whether we fully recovered from it as a republic is open for debate. Either way, we reached a point by 1973 whereby murder and government-granted rights were legitimized and codified by the Judicial branch of the U.S. national government, and it has taken nearly 50 years to reach a point where a law which was never enacted through the formal channels of Legislative passage and Executive signature is under real consideration of reversal.

And to be clear: it would be a reversal of monolithic legalization by a branch of the central government not authorized to do so, and mandated to the States, again with no constitutional authorization. That said, States which choose to recodify its legalization within their own borders will be at liberty to do so, which is how and where the disintegration of our Union will be more fully explicated and accelerated. Also, given the timing, it is quite within the realm of possibility that the current U.S. Congress will attempt to fast-track legislation to essentially reinstitute the court-mandated edicts, which will begin the constitutional challenge process all over again. How and why this potential decision was leaked to the media also comes into play, as the highly emotional and vocal outcry of those who believe that a government-given right is being revoked (and/or who are just looking for an excuse to create mayhem and chaos as we near the next national election cycle) increases. National politicians now also have the excuse to reignite the debates over both the Senate filibuster and SCOTUS-packing to ensure an anti-American majority opinion on the “constitutionality” of every political issue hereafter.

Don’t misunderstand: Roe v. Wade was and is unconstitutional, both in its substance and method of enactment. It deserves to be undone, and should have been long ago. Individual states should also have the right to deliberate such issues and act accordingly within their own jurisdictions; that is what made America truly great at its inception. However, as President John Adams has so famously quoted, “Our Constitution was made for a moral and virtuous people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.” Unfortunately, in at least the last 50 years since that act by the “highest court in the land,” we have lost our shared morality and virtuosity, and are about to pay the price for that. But it was bound to happen, so the sooner we pay for our past sins and get back to the principles of a free society which truly made America great, the better.

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