Leaked Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade: get ready for an intense cognitive battle
And why that ruling is NOT what it is said to be
This is hot off the press, and generally I don’t respond this quickly on current events, but I prefer to sit on thing for a little, let them play out, get more facts.
But this is very near my heart.
I have no problem looking at corpses, and analytically investigate what those pictures can tell us, about time of death, cause of death, the victim, etc. If I hadn’t come to the US when I did, because of my wife, then girlfriend, I would have continued with forensic archaeology, and likely ended up in Interpol, in their crime investigation unit (the one that goes around the world investigating mass graves and such). Blood and gore, often very gruesome, but for some reason I can stomach that, without much problem. I can rationalize that.
What I really cannot stand, nor look at, are pictures of abortions and aborted remains of those little babies. Can’t. I simply cannot.
I am a Catholic, and I do believe in the sanctity of life, from conception, to grave. And yes, I support human life at every step in between, as well (looking at you, propagandists, who claim we only care about birth and death, and can’t care less about people while they are actually trying to live their lives, what a stupid attack!).
This was something that was long time coming, a correction of a legal error. Roe vs. Wade should have never been accepted, that has been admitted by many legal experts.
Even Edward Lazarus, a former law clerk to Roe's author, Justice Harry Blackmun, in his article ‘The Lingering Problems of Roe v. Wade’:
As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible. I say this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose, as someone who believes such a right has grounding elsewhere in the Constitution instead of where Roe placed it, and as someone who loved Roe's author like a grandfather. . . . .
What, exactly, is the problem with Roe? The problem, I believe, is that it has little connection to the Constitutional right it purportedly interpreted. A constitutional right to privacy broad enough to include abortion has no meaningful foundation in constitutional text, history, or precedent. ...
The proof of Roe's failings comes not from the writings of those unsympathetic to women's rights, but from the decision itself and the friends who have tried to sustain it. Justice Blackmun's opinion provides essentially no reasoning in support of its holding. And in the almost 30 years since Roe's announcement, no one has produced a convincing defense of Roe on its own terms.
A lot more is wrong with that SCOTUS ruling, and you can read a very interesting summary here, Ten Legal Reasons to Reject Roe, written by Susan E. Wills, Esq., and published here on the website of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Now, Roe v. Wade being overturned does NOT mean that abortion will suddenly be banned in the whole United States.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled, […] It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
It simply means that Roe v. Wade is repealed: a federal ban that forces states to allow abortion. Without Roe v. Wade, individual states will have the legislative authority to either completely ban abortion, or to fully allow it, or anything in between.
Graph from the Guttmacher Institute, a very pro-abortion organization
Women who really want an abortion, will still be able to. Perhaps not in their own state, but still within some other state in the US.
Unless, and this is a very important point, if the definition in this leaked opinion remains, and talks about the foetus as an ‘unborn human being’!
Alito wrote:
"Roe’s defenders characterize the abortion right as similar to the rights recognized in past decisions involving matters such as intimate sexual relations, contraception, and marriage, but abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called “fetal life” and what the law now before us describes as an “unborn human being.”
They are keeping and upholding the definition in the MS law! If this stands, that would make it a whole lot harder for any state to have abortion laws, for now they have to come with a proper legal ground to allow the killing of an ‘unborn human being’! This would be absolutely a landmark ruling, that defines human life, and thus extends proper protections.
This, of course, is fully in line with the latest scientific consensus that life begins at conception, period. There is no scientific ground whatsoever to contest that, only verbal trickery and sophistry.
The latest news is that they erected fences around the Supreme Court building, and that the first protesters have already arrived. What a reversal: any attempt to interfere SCOTUS or to storm it, would be an insurrection…
And as James O’Keefe dryly remarked: “Will Josh Gerstein at Politico be raided by the FBI for publishing documents from within the US Supreme Court?”
Now, I write about this, not just because abortion is something I feel passionately against, and I cry out for the innocent lives lost, but because today will be the starting point of an immensely intense and ferocious counter-attack (of which this leaking was only the first step, I am rather certain), a major cognitive warfare battle, that will be waged to influence the justices through an attempted massive popular uprising and pressure.
Real, or perceived, that will be the cognitive warfare part of it, to make even the smallest protest seem enormous, and thus weighty and important, in an attempt to halt this ruling. They have seen this coming for a while now, I wasn’t shocked by this leaked document, but expected it. What I was looking forward to, was the extent in which Roe v. Wade would be repealed. If this draft version holds, with its language on unborn human beings, it will go well past a mere repeal.
For some reason, the Left has aligned itself over abortion, enshrining that as an inalienable right. An identifying marker for them. About the one hill they all agree they’d be willing to die on.
Someone wrote on a message board: “I am laughing at how small minded everyone is. You think the leak was to hurt the SCOTUS? 😂 please… Abortion is the lefts golden calf; It’s their hill… they will go down in flames for the right to dismember babies. This is how they get them not to vote R. It’s obvious.”
That, too, is at play. (Thinking a bit more about this: the timing is about distracting from 2000 Mules which opened tonight, the leak itself is to try to mess with the repeal of Roe v. Wade, and the media circus about it that will come serves to rile up their base for November... But it will all be futile!)
This battle is ideological, and, on this topic, extremely fundamental.
The level of cognitive warfare we will see, will be biblical in scale.
This article is my starting point, as I analyze what will come.
I am not afraid. The truth about Roe v. Wade in legal terms has been made clear, for those who cared. The truth about the science of unborn human beings has also been made clear, beyond any doubt. Now, with a changing demographic (current youth seems more pro-life than about 20 years ago), and with an unlocked social media presence both in Truth Social and on Twitter, this battle will be different.
One important aspect to note: this will be a battle where no quarter will be asked for, and none would be given. It is about 2 diametrically opposed views on human nature and human autonomy/power.
There is no halfway to meet in compromise. The battle will not be about changing minds of the other side, but to claim the minds and ideas of those in the middle, who are not ideologically committed yet (and that is a whole lot, still: true leftist ideologues are not that many, however loud and visible they are – with their amplification hampered, what will be left of that?). Many Americans are currently in the middle, and take a pragmatic position: against abortion, but ok in some cases, where those ‘some cases’ can and is and will be stretched as far as possible. Will this case and this draft be the beginning of a proper discussion on abortion? Where one side will try emotional arguments, and the other rational arguments?
So much has happened, the grooming being exposed, the crazy school curriculums, and now that foundational right, abortion, that made ‘free sex’ without consequence possible, is on the chopping block, as well.
Expect a lot of unhinged and crazy reactions, and a massive campaign to try to sway public opinion, in a last ditch effort to influence the Supreme Court.
Stand fast, and if you are a praying man or a praying woman: PRAY! For the Justices, all nine of them. For all those involved in this process. For the police protecting the Supreme Court Building. For this nation, and her soul. For the children who will be protected by this law.
The defense against that desperate leftist counter-attacked to undermine this potential (inevitable, really) SCOTUS decision is already underway, as well. We are ready for it.
And remember: mockery is the best way to oust the naked emperor.
‘Dodger Princess’ has set the stage, perfectly:
All is well.
Arn - another great piece. This one stands out to me, perhaps because RvW has been a multi-generational human travesty. As you point out, the cognitive warfare has continues. Schiff tweeted out the bullshit that such a SCOTUS ruling outlaws abortion, while that vertically challenged demon knows that is not true. It's a Constitutional issue left to the states by default.
With you, I continue to pray for the rights of all human beings, especially those still developing in the wombs of their mothers.
I'm thankful for your Substack, brother. Someday, perhaps, we'll share a Trappist ale and celebrate these victories.
The minions of the left screeching to keep the emotional reaction going, while the controllers know exactly in their cold, calculated way, know what and how to keep the frenzy going and the distractions. Thank God, this is a major step to stop the murder of innocents. I'd love to join you and JFAnon in that beer, or two.