Pray for Life
The Supreme Court today will be hearing oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case involving Mississippi’s attempt to ban nearly all abortions after 15 weeks. The state has asked the court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
I have read Roe v. Wade, which many, many people with strong opinions on the matter have not. We studied it in Law School. It is the worst legal reasoning of any decision in my experience, bar none. The holding in the Dred Scott decision was based on more sound and sober legal reasoning than this.
Roe v Wade is an ugly textbook case of legislating from the bench, inventing Constitutional rights out of emanations of penumbrae, that is, out of thin air, and quoting not a single precedent in support of the central finding.
Had it merely been a matter of human reason and human wisdom, the case would have been overturned by the next session, after impeaching the justices who supported it for gross dereliction of duty.
Those who are so vehement about the alleged right of Medea to kill her helpless and innocent children, under the theory that children are property, or are trespassers, or are invading parasites, are welcome to present their case to the voters or to the elected representatives of the voters, state by state, as with every law enacted in a federation governed by constitutional principles of democratic republicanism, rule of law, and separation of powers.
So it would be, if mere human reason triumphed.
But human reason is in short supply on earth, and the celebrants of Moloch flatter the ego of the infanticides, and the panderers servicing Asmodeus and Lilith, foe of wedlock and child-killing queen of lust, make a common cause with him.
Prayer and fasting are needed greatly.
Myself, I doubt the longstanding precedent will be overturned, but miracles have happened before. We need one now.
To aid the imagination in being fixed on divine things, below I post a picture of the Madonna and Child among the clouds of heaven, with psalming celestial virgins making a joyful noise and a new song unto the Lord.
If the cast of features of any Jewess shown below seems odd, remember that Christians are not idolaters, and do not think earthly images of heavenly beings can be anything other than figures and shadows, not literal.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
