If you wait long enough, the good guys eventually win. It has finally happened: the US Supreme Court has reversed the evil wickedness known as Roe v Wade; it only took 49 years! The long-rumoured decision was handed down yesterday and it is time to rejoice – babies are just that little bit safer today.
I spent much of yesterday reading the majority opinion written by American national hero Samuel Alito. Unlike the ignorant socialists, I actually uncover facts, rather than engaging in moronic chanting and show-off behaviour, groupthink. It has taken some time but I think I understand the more in-depth legal matters he addresses.
This link provides a key point precis – probably going to be much easier if you read it yourself, rather than me attempting to wade through the salient points – but one thing which I couldn’t help chuckling about was his mention of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution:
In interpreting what is meant by the Fourteenth Amendment’s reference to ‘liberty’, we must guard against the natural human tendency to confuse what that Amendment protects with our own ardent views about the liberty that Americans should enjoy…
In short, he’s saying that everybody thinks the thing they have a bee-in-their-bonnet about should be a ‘right’, and to not do so is infringing on their sense of ‘liberty’; reminiscent of the point I made a few weeks back about how everyone’s view of ‘democracy’ is that the one issue they think is oh-so-vital should be made the law of the land by parliament!
Alito is of course correct. Instead of all sorts of twaddle being deemed ‘rights’, best to just stick to what the constitution actually says because it either gets kinda silly (‘the right to own a parrot’) or gets to the point where legislators feel they can’t draw a line because some special interest group will simply invent a new right. And please do not misunderstand me: there are plenty of so called ‘rights’ that I strongly disagree with, despite (in theory) benefitting me, simply because they aren’t rights.
A good analogy for what I mean would be that I would never, in a million years, accept a handout from the government – any sort of ‘stimulus’ or ‘bailout’ money, or, God forbid, old-age pension – because I don’t believe in it. It may benefit me personally, but it’s just wrong; people should solve their own problems in life and not scrounge on the taxpayer.
I hope you can see what a marvellous victory for the moral and righteous this ruling is. I hope you can see the dam has broken for overturning lots of other nonsense that has polluted and weakened Western civilisation during my lifetime.
Here is Justice Alito’s conclusion.
Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.