It is our somewhat radical, but sincere view, that, consistent with the universal American principles of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” Equal Protection of the law, and individual human dignity, in general, the approval of abortion in the “landmark case” of Roe v. Wade, was in reffect, legally superfluous, and its abhorrant reversal, erroneous, and of no fundamental legal import. Our opinion is obviously not in sync with the current understanding of the controversy and the legal impact of the overturn of the famous case.
We have always disagreed with the public perception that Roe v. Wade was the genesis of the woman’s (natural) right to determine highly personal matters in her own life, relevantly, the choice to bear children or not, and that Roe’s overturn disturbs any metaphysically fundamental principles. To our perception, such a publicly accepted view seems legally and logically inconsistent with the Nation’s avowed liberty regarding personal freedoms, constitutionally afforded to American citizens, viz., the overturn of Roe v. Wade, is understood to have led to a perceived proscription against abortion. In our view, this understanding would result in a singular proscription against the citizen’s personal choice of lifestyle, analogous to the elective choice of marriage and/or personal choice of spouse, inarguably, outside the purview of any polity which historically avows individual freedom and liberty.
In our nuanced, but sincere contemplation, Roe v. Wade did not grant, nor is it the source of, the woman’s right to determine the configuration of her own family, but can effectively be understood to have recognized that natural right. Its reversal, presumably, under unconstitutional pressure from the religious right, was not only tragically injudicious and violative of the “Establishment Clause” of the United States Constitution, but constituted an autocratic exercise of tyranny, unbecoming to, and inconsistent with personal freedom espoused by the Founding Fathers; however, it is our belief that it should not be read as denying women the right of abortion.
Our Democratic Republic is now under great pressure, stemming from the autocratic policies of the Trump-MAGA Administration, regarding the latter’s castigation of the Constitution and its Separation of Powers, the denigration of America’s media, the attack against its educational institutions from Grade school through University, the devastation of its health research institutions and federal civil service, the cruel elimination of government programs of assistance such as Social Security and Medicaid, the foolhardy elimination of health and environment protective regulations, the fouling of our traditionally salutary relation with our traditional allies, the despoilation our favorable economy, and a full and foul dumpster of assorted MAGA detritis vitally mandating amelioration by the informed, mainstream citizenry at election time.
It is of existential importance that such a nightmarish, dystopic Presidential holocaust be brought to an end. We optimistically believe that the Nation, having ubiquitously experienced the intense pain of the aberrant Trump Presidency, will administer to it the coup de grace (See Blog # 272, ” THE ANCIENT LESSON”).
However, assuming that our positive prognostication is realized, the Nation’s message of liberty will remain unfulfilled until the Nation, additionally revitalizes the metaphysical understanding that its female citizens are legally vested with the requisite legal assurance relative to their legally implicit personal agency to determine all personal matters of their private anatomy and their personal lives.
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