Mein Fuehrer! I congratulate you! Roosevelt is dead!
So proclaimed one of his advisors to Adolph Hitler in April 1945, after the news of Franklin Roosevelts death was released. It was the miracle that Adolph Hitler hoped would salvage the Third Reichs war-effort by collapsing the alliance headed by FDR and Stalin.
As history teaches, however, this vain hope went unrealized. No such thing happened because Hitler and his dreamers had incorrectly imagined that the UK-USSR-USA alliance was stitched together only by personalities of its leaders. To be sure, some rough patches were encountered between Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin and new President Harry Truman after FDRs death. It wasnt all smooth sailing, but the central dynamic remained solid national commitments to completely defeat Hitler and his Axis of Evil.
I mention this eccentric vignette from the past because something like the hoped-for miracle aspect has occurred this week, following the leak of a U. S. Supreme Court draft opinion which appears to indicate that the Court plans to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. Roe had declared a previously unnoticed Constitutional right to abortion in the penumbra of the 14th Amendment1.
Democrat pols and Big Media instantly proclaimed that this was the miracle that would energize the abortion-now-abortion-forever faction, divert the publics attention away from Joe Bidens disastrous policies (i.e., inflation, high gas-prices, soaring crime-rates and uncontrolled borders), head off a Democrat election-catastrophe in November, and salvage Joes presidency for a second term. (Mein Fuehrer! I congratulate you!)
All over the country Democrats have been popping champagne-corks and thanking the Great Whoever that deliverance had finally arrived to pull them out of Joe Bidens Slough of Despond. What a happy day! At this writing, Big Media has been wall-to-wall with reporters and political analysts gravely predicting the death of American Democracy if the Supreme Court executes this attack on American women.
One hysterical commentator declared that the end of abortion will mean the end of life as we know it with not the slightest recognition of the irony of his statement. And conservative wags have been cracking wise about Democrats miraculous re-discovery of what a woman actually is.
Flash-mobs, reporters and politicians are shouting from the housetops that the Court must not be allowed to make abortion illegal, although the draft ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, obviously does not do that. My inference from all the uproar is that abortion aficionados are upset because what they thought was settled law no longer is. With Roe struck down, they will have to fight through all 50 states to achieve what the 73 ruling had done with the stroke of a pen. But that might prove impossible.
We hold that Roe and Casey2 must be overruled, writes Justice Alito in a 98-page draft decision on Mississippis strict new abortion law. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the peoples elected representatives. The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nations history and traditionsRoe was egregiously wrong from the start.
If SCOTUS actually hands down Justice Alitos draft ruling in June, legislative bodies of each state will be able to enact laws on abortion, as they did before Roe v. Wade. The will of each states citizens, as expressed through their elected representatives, will determine when or whether a woman may legally obtain an abortion, and what penalties can be assessed if she disobeys those restrictions. This should not be considered a radical move, since laws on human life have always been the purview of individual states not of the federal government. Thus, some states may enact laws which prohibit abortion entirely, or allow it in only a few specific circumstances. Other states will legalize abortion more widely.
Activists will undoubtedly bring lawsuits to contest some strict state abortion laws, but Roe v. Wade will no longer be the backstop for court-decisions on those laws. The issue of abortion will be brought back to the level of morality in the courtroom. Instead of being able to say, my hands are tied by Roe, a judge will have to decide whether a womans desire to destroy her unborn child for her personal convenience passes the morality test. This was always the central issue with abortion, until 1973 when the Supremes said it could be ignored.
A national argument has raged over when an embryo becomes a child that must be protected by law. Progressives claim that a fetus is just a blob of tissue, while conservatives say destroying it kills a child. Even people of faith are divided on the issue although not as divided as the general population.
Years ago I heard psychologist and evangelical activist James Dobson speak to this issue in a radio interview. He said the question came down to whether Christians believed their own rhetoric i.e., that abortion really is the murder of a child. To clarify the point he asked listeners to imagine that a facility outside of town is found to be actually killing already-born children.
What should we do? He asked. Take care not to trespass on private property? Respect the views of others that differ from ours? The doctor answered his own question: God help us! We would do no such thing. We would go out there with fire and sword and destroy that evil place driving out all who worked there, and freeing every child awaiting execution.

In the forty-nine years since Roe v. Wade, the USAs grisly abortion-tally exceeds 63 million. Population analysts say that total includes 20 million black children. This explains why three-quarters of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are located in black neighborhoods. (Margaret Sanger3 would be so proud.) Millions of women (and men) today carry the permanent grief of having destroyed a precious life. Nothing on that scale was occurring during my childhood, or at any earlier time in the country.
Years ago, when my wife and I were raising our family in Maryland, a neighbor had a younger brother who was a wild young bucko in his teen years. Because he was incautious about his romantic activities, he soon ended up with a pregnant girlfriend and no realistic prospect for marriage. They were Catholics, so abortion was (fortunately) not an option. The young couple gave up the child for adoption.
My neighbor told me of these events long after they had occurred. She said that although twenty years had passed, her brother still observed the birthday of that lost child every year by closeting himself in his room all day to drink and cry and grieve. Thank the Lord, he didnt have to regret an abortion, but the grief from the loss of his child weighed on him through his whole life. The lasting grief produced by an abortion is rarely mentioned in public discourse, but it would certainly exceed what that young guy experienced.
For a half-century we have lived under the shadow of a misguided court-ruling that legalized evil and made it into an ersatz political issue. Finally, though, it looks like the sunlight of righteousness might pierce through that shadow and restore our respect for every childs life. We might have a deuce of a scrap over this before its settled, but in the Lords timing justice will prevail, and the life of our nation (in Winston Churchills famous words) will move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. The deliverance is much needed. Bless the Lord for His mercy.
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, Im free at last! (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963)

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- See https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992), was a landmark United States Supreme Court caseregardingabortion.In a plurality opinion, the Court upheld a right to have an abortion that was established in Roe v. Wade (1973), and altered the standard for analyzing restrictions on that right.
- Eugenics champion Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) advocated widespread use of abortion to eliminate what she called the weed races from the USA.
- Claire Culwellis an abortion survivor.Her birth mother was 13 when she underwent a procedure which aborted one of the twins she was carrying. Claire survived and was adopted into a loving family. Years later she met her birth mother who told her about the twin who was lost. Claire says learning that she had survived an abortion that was meant to take her life never changed her conviction of being wanted, chosen and loved. In her public addresses she reminds audiences that every life lost due to abortion cannot be taken back, but every child saved from abortion is a profound witness of Gods hope and love for every human life.
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Id really like to know why the left and right will not accept say a ban after 3 months? Both sides will be unhappy, but at least we can possibly move forward. (long shot) And, Id also like to know why the left would rather have an abortion than use birth control? It would seem to be a no brainer. Of course, it is likely the Catholic Church would then go after contraceptives once they ban abortion.
Also, I would point out to the right, the radical anti-abortion people seem to commit a lot more sins trying to wipe out abortion than those having the abortion. Not to say the right is any more radical than the left.
Possibly, Congress is thinking that the people on both sides of abortion are of the type that always has to be fighting something. So, if Congress were to legislate some type of end to the never ending abortion fiasco, then all these same people from both sides would just find something else fight about. So, Congress on both sides of the aisle refuses to legislate and just fund raises off things like abortion. Think about that. Why fix any issue when both sides can fund raise from it?
Its very interesting that President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Tim Kaine, all three consider themselves devout lifetime Catholics as far as I know. And, as far as I know, one of the signature beliefs of the Catholic Church doctrine is not believing in abortion nor birth control. So why is it that the Catholic Church allows people who apparently knowing live in sin to remain church members in good standing ? That seems to be a blatant hypocrisy. Would someone correct me if if am wrong?
Also, it is interesting to me that we have this SCOTUS leak shortly after a left wing appointed, affirmed action nominee has just recently been confirmed and yet no mention of Justice Brown or her staff possibly being involved. There were no leaks as far as I know before her, so why it is not logical to start with the new people looking for the leak? What am I missing here?
I would like ask the author to use Bible verses to support this thread since you used the word evil. Keep in mind that if you do go back to the Old Testament in order to support your writing, it would seem that you would also have to concede that we are still bound by the 10 Commandments written and handed down by the Creator, and also those laws which are known by some as the Law of Moses. And, if you do concede that, then the you will also have to concede that the 7th day (Saturday) is the correct day of rest, not the 1st day (Sunday). The 4th Commandment starting out with the word, Remember as a warning by the Creator. And, if Jesus Christ did away with the 10 Commandments, (4th Commandment) why did he not rise on the 7th day, but instead wait until after the Sabbath day of rest until the 1st day?
The only possibly attainable solution is a compromise. A ban on abortion passed by Congress after somewhere between 2-4 months unless the mothers life is in danger. This far left and far right BS has destroyed this country. But, Congress and the White House are a totally corrupt bunch of dysfunctional thieves and liars who refuse to do their sworn duty.
Best Wishes.
and now the Conservative judges have the domestic supply of infants measure to assist in their goals of subjugation of women whats not to like?
So being a mom is subjugation? If that’s your mom’s take on motherhood it would explain things
Being forced into motherhood as a way of ensuring that there is an adequate domestic supply of infants is indeed subjugation.
With all the contraceptives so easily available today, plus those morning after pills, plus having the choice about having sex or not, just how is any woman being forced into motherhood?
The truth is that of the 1 million abortions per year only about 5000 are as a result of rape, incest or health of the mother – and that is likely a high number. Birth control is readily available and cheap with numerous short and long term solutions using pills and implants. Condoms are virtually in every drug and grocery store. Frankly, nobody is being denied an abortion if the feds turn this back to the states. At worst, a woman would be inconvenienced to travel out of state to a planned parenthood abortion mill. This idea that coat hangers would be used is just a scare tactic or something an illegal immigrant would do in a foreign country..
See Missouri bill which seeks to prosecute women who leave the state to seek an abortion elsewhere. Of course Conservatives are fine with restricting interstate travel and using big brother government now!!
Btw, birth control is not perfect. 1 in 100 who use the pill will become pregnant every year. Assuming that only 1/3 of the population is sexually active, that equates to 1 million unplanned pregnancies each and every year in the US – a no fault of the couple.
Sound slike your mom had a rough night back in the day. Hopefully she was able to figure out who was the father?
Very Christian of you Brother Bob clear a shining example of the Conservative sect these days
I’m not the one who claimed that your mom was subjugated. Have you read your own words?