Last week there was a brief hiatus in the Parody As a Weapon series. Instead, the Biden administration managed to parody itself by announcing that the Department of Homeland Security was launching a Disinformation Governance Board, which would be headed by Trump/Russian collusion narrative hoaxer Nina Jankowicz. Apparently, Ms. Jankowicz, who also supported the false claim that Hunter Biden’s laptop was planted in the Trolley Square repair shop in Wilmington by Spetsnatz operators, has a qualification unmatched elsewhere in the stable of leftist auditioning for executive branch positions. As the embedded Twitter clip in this link demonstrates, in addition to creating partisan song parodies, she performs them on Tik Tok as well. While her Julie Andrews impression is quite serviceable, it does indicate that Ms. Jankowicz, whose features might be considered attractive by some in other circumstances, shows here that in performing this particular number, she has a face made for radio (a fate shared by this author) or should audition for the lead in “Wicked”. As self-parody can be even more devastating than parody alone, sometimes it is prudent to step aside and let your targets mock themselves.
This week, though, we will return to the familiar ground of song parody that the left didn’t compose for us with words, but rather through their actions. Two weeks ago, in Part XXXVI . we touched on the topic of when life (or, more accurately, cerebral functioning) ended. This week, we will examine the even more complicated matter of when life begins, or at least what the courts and others in the political process have to say about it.
The 1970s was in many ways a lost decade. After the unrest of the 1960s, the 1970s opened with more of the same, and ended worse. It was not until the end of 1980 that the election of Ronald Reagan marked the beginning of the end of the economic malaise and social turmoil wrought in this time.
One of the most tragic events during this era was the decision by the US Supreme Court in January of 1973 that was entitled Roe v. Wade. Without delving too deeply into the legal arguments such as the difference between a rational basis and strict scrutiny, the majority opinion was authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, a Nixon appointee. Using a decision in Griswold v. Connecticut from the prior decade that created a fundamental right for married couples to use birth control, Blackmun in essence determined that the Constitution through these penumbras forbade state legislatures from restricting access to abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy, and had limits in the following trimesters.
By this process, Blackmun and the majority of the Court made terminating a pregnancy by killing the child in utero protected by the Constitution, and usurped the power of each state’s legislature along with the US Congress to act beyond this decision to limit or prevent this abhorrent practice. As such, it created not only the morally horrific outcome that resulted in the death of tens of millions of children in the womb, but created bad law as well.
The problem with using court decisions to manufacturee fundamental rights is that they are subject to subsequent court decisions. Just as democrat-sponsored Jim Crow laws were deemed constitutional in Plessy v. Ferguson, it took a little more than a half of a century for the Supreme Court to overturn this in Brown v. Board of Education, ending the “separate but equal” regime that had long been the policy in democrat jurisdictions.
Because of the highly flawed nature of the majority opinion in Roe v. Wade, the left has known that a day of legal reckoning was coming for quite some time, which was why adherence to precedent became a concern in recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Despite this knowledge, this week, when there was a treacherous leak of a draft decision in the Dobbs case currently before the Supreme Court in this session that untangles the tortured knot which is Roe v. Wade, democrats screamed as loudly as they did when the 13th amendment was passed, ending slavery.
In Justice Alito’s draft, the shortcomings of the Roe decision are well-documented as it is disassembled in a one hundred page instruction manual. If adopted as the majority opinion of the Court, one of the most tragic decisions of the 1970s will be undone, and each state will again have to decide the value it places on the life of the unborn.
The 1970s were not just a time for deadly decisions by the Supreme Court. As the decade began, pop music was awash with teen and pre-teen idols. The likes of Donny Osmond, Michael Jackson and David Cassidy were found all over the Top 40 music charts, though leading the way into the decade was Bobby Sherman. Whether singing about Seattle’s blue sky on the TV series “Here Come the Brides” or bursting out of the speaker on car and transistor radios tuned in to the AM music stations, girls in the 10 through 16 year old demographic could not get enough of the handsome entertainer. Unlike some other stars whose lives went awry once out of the limelight, Bobby Sherman later leveraged a guest-starring role on the Jack Webb-produced TV series “Emergency” into a part time career as a reserve deputy sheriff and emergency medical technician. Though he released a cut in 1974 entitled “Unborn Lullaby”, it did not really have anything to do with Roe v. Wade decision of the previous year. I have however borrowed his 1971 hit “I Have Cried Like a Baby” as the basis for this week’s song parody, that memorializes the holocaust that the democrats wish to continue uninhibited by law or lawmaking:
Ever since Justice Blackmun made up a fundamental right
A green light flashed and a million babies die
He wrote of each trimester and each life he could sequester
Now Alito’s draft has caused them all to cry
And they have tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Without a court to slow their deadly hand
And they tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Based on a law they just don’t understand
In the old days legislatures would have to pass the laws
But Justice Blackmun up and passed them by
He created a new right there but now they’ll have to fight fair And pass a law to let these babies die
And they have tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Without a court to slow their deadly hand
And they tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Based on a law they just don’t understand
In the leftist dream of empire each judge became a king
to implement their social justice schemes
To decide when life begins and forgiveness for all sins
But now the Court is dashing all their dreams
And they have tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Without a court to slow their deadly hand
And they tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Based on a law they just don’t understand
Tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Without a court to slow their deadly hand
And they tried to kill babies in the safety of the womb
Based on a law they just don’t understand
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