The Roe Protests: The Hoodwinking Of The American People
The purposeful manipulation of the American people by the political Left continues in the anticipated Supreme Court Ruling in the matter of Roe v. Wade. Simply put – and it can’t be repeated enough – the Democrats and pro-abortion advocates are bald-faced lying to the American people when they say abortion will be “outlawed” should Roe be overturned.
Wednesday, a measure to not only codify abortion nationally but to advance the procedure far beyond the current protections offered under Roe, was defeated in the US Senate. The “Women’s Health Protection Act” was defeated by a vote of 49-51, 11 short of the 60 votes needed to be fully debated in the 100-member Senate. US Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), joined all 50 Republicans to block the bill.
Democrats advanced the bill in an attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s ruling, which is expected to overturn the nearly 50-year-old Roe decision that cloaked the issue of abortion behind the Fourth Amendment’s privacy clause.
Last September, the US House of Representatives voted 218-211 to pass an abortion rights bill similar in wording to the now defeated Senate bill.
The Political-Ideological Left’s Gaslighting
Before the defeat of the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” an outcome that was expected by all, more than two dozen House Democrats showboated, marching from the House of Representatives to the Senate chanting “My body, my decision” (where were they during COVID?). They later entered the Senate chamber and sat quietly along a back wall while senators debated the bill.
House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer (D-MD), fear-mongered that a reversal of Roe would be a catastrophe on par with the horrendous 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in which the High Court ruled that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and that Congress had no authority to ban slavery from US territories.
In a talking head interview last Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), said, “the [Supreme Court] has slapped women in the face in terms of disrespect for their judgments about the size and timing of their families” with their anticipated ruling.
Pelosi screeched on:
“Republicans have made clear that their goal will be to seek to criminalize abortion nationwide...seeking to arrest doctors for offering reproductive care, ban abortion entirely with no exceptions, and even charge women with murder who exercise their right to choose.”
US Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), falsely declared:
“For the first time in 50 years...an extreme conservative majority on the Supreme Court is on the brink of declaring that women do not have the right to an abortion, that they do not have the right to control their own bodies.”
The far-Left Huffington Post (less an actual serious news source and more an echo chamber for the fascist Left) – even while admitting that the plurality of abortions is performed to terminate Black fetuses, proclaimed the ideological basis for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion was racism and conspiracy theory:
“The implication he makes in the leaked draft that Black people are committing genocide of their own people at the direction of outside forces is a racist one. The point of the argument isn’t really about concern for Black people and their children...It’s a way to dress up a blatant attack on bodily autonomy as racial justice.”
And Hollywood has-been and pseudo-intellectual, Bette Midler, pompously tweeted:
“Planned Parenthood isn’t killing children...You’re thinking of the NRA.”
The Truth Of The Matter...
The singular truth about the anticipated ruling to overturn Roe is this. It does not – in any way – make abortion illegal. It simply doesn’t. It reverses a ruling that the US Supreme Court never should have issued in the first place because the federal government had no purview in the matter.
The issue of abortion is one that must be left to the individual states. That is what the Roe reversal means in total. Nothing else. Period. So, the false claim that a Roe reversal would outlaw or deny a pregnant woman an abortion is simply not true. It is a lie. They know it is a lie. And they don’t care about gaslighting you on that lie.
In fact, the elected far-Left actually tried to “use the crisis” of the anticipated ruling to capitalize on existing abortion law at the federal level.
The now defeated “Women’s Health Protection Act” would have:
Solidify the right to abortion beyond viability
Eliminated limitations on abortion providers
Overturned state restrictions on abortion
Excluded conscience protections for religious providers
In addressing Senate Majority Leader Schumer’s position on the bill – as well as the anticipated Roe ruling, Catholic League president Bill Donohue wrote that Schumer supported the “gutting” of the First Amendment protections for religious liberty.
Politically Opportune Sensationalism Always Lies
Justice Alito and the majority on the US Supreme Court – should the overturning of Roe take place – are correct in their ruling because it has fidelity to the US Constitution and the limitations placed upon the federal government by that document and its Bill of Rights. The federal government should have never entertained the issue of abortion in Roe.
To that extent, the creation of laws that address social issues should always have to pass an extremely high bar because the federal government shouldn’t be involved in anything not specifically enumerated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Those are the rules under which our federal government was created.
The Tenth Amendment states, unequivocally:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
One thing Hoyer did hit on with his fear-mongering about Dred Scott v. Sandford is that the US Supreme Court is capable of ruling in error and to the point where it needs to correct itself less it faces legislation that corrects its bad acts for them.
Now that the Supreme Court has corrected Roe, maybe they will have the integrity and the honesty to address their horrible decisions in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937), United States v. Darby (1941), and Wickard v. Filburn (1942) that expanded the federal government’s purview under the Commerce Clause to everything that touches our daily lives.
I wouldn’t hold my breath about that happening, but one can dream. In the meantime – and as I said before, this cannot be repeated often enough:
The Democrats and pro-abortion advocates are bald-faced lying to the American people when they say abortion will be “outlawed” should Roe be overturned.
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