Reversing the 49-year-old decision legalizing abortion is an “act of violence” that “will kill and subjugate women,” usher in fascism, and overturn …
Reversing the 49-year-old decision legalizing abortion is an “act of violence” that “will kill and subjugate women,” usher in fascism, and overturn the “sacred” right to an abortion, which “ all basic, mainstream religions” embraced, according to liberal commentators reacting to a leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Here are some of the most over-the-top meltdowns about the possibility that the justices will overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Overturning Roe ‘will kill and subjugate women’ Pro-life jurisprudence kills, warned numerous people, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. While reading the draft opinion on Monday evening, Clinton wrote on Twitter: “This decision is a direct assault on the dignity, rights, & lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law. It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. What an utter disgrace.” Not surprising. But still outrageous. This decision is a direct assault on the dignity, rights, & lives of women, not to mention decades of settled law. It will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal. What an utter disgrace. https://t.co/TNo1IX3Tl4 Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 3, 2022 Others sounded similar themes. “The overturning of Roe V Wade is a political act of violence against us and we will not accept it,” tweeted actress Amber Tamblyn. On “The View” Tuesday, co-host Whoopi Goldberg said she “got tired of tripping over women in bathrooms, public bathrooms, who were giving themselves abortions because there was nowhere safe, nowhere clean, nowhere to go.” In reality, claims of widespread deaths from “back-alley abortions” came from… the people performing illegal, back-alley abortions. The late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a onetime abortionist and director of what would become NARAL who became pro-life, admitted during his efforts to overturn pro-life laws before the Supreme Court decision: [W]e generally emphasized the frame of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always ‘5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.’ I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The actual number of women who died from illegal abortion in 1972, the year before Roe, was 39. Furthermore, decriminalizing (and sometimes, subsidizing) abortion has not stopped women from dying from “safe and legal” abortions. “In 2018, the most recent year for which … data were reviewed for pregnancy-related deaths, two women died as a result of complications from legal induced abortion,” the CDC reported. The decision says ‘women are not full human beings’ CNN commentator Kirsten Powers lectured, “It is fine to be pro-life. Be pro-life; don’t have an abortion. “It is not fine to say that women are not full human beings, people. They’re so obsessed with how a fetus or an embryo is a person. Well, guess what? Women are people.” But if unborn children are also persons, shouldn’t the law protect their unalienable right to life? The author of Roe v. Wade thought so. “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment,” wrote Justice Harry Blackmun in Roe. CNN analyst (not scientist) Kirsten Powers: “It is not fine to say that women are not full human beings, people. They’re so obsessed with how a fetus or an embryo is a person. Well, guess what? Women are people!” Unborn babies are not…. pic.twitter.com/AFmmBKK7oS — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 3, 2022 Roe v. Wade expresses the view of all ‘mainstream religions’ President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that the Supreme Court had somehow synthesized and distilled the timeless teachings of all great religious figures — Jesus, Moses, Muhammad, and Buddha — in affirming the right to abortion on demand. “ Roe says what all basic, mainstream religions have historically concluded: that the right, that the existence of a human life and being is a question,” he said. “Is it at the moment of conception? Is it six months? Is it six weeks? Is it quickening, as [Thomas] Aquinas argued?” BIDEN: “Roe says what all basic, mainstream religions have historically concluded, that the existence of a human life and being is a question.
