December 27, 2021
"I think of Roe v Wade as a house that’s sitting on the edge of a beach, where the water is coming under it and taking the sand out. The house is still standing there, but it is more and more in danger of collapsing in the water."
Said Sarah Weddington, back in 1998, quoted today in her obituary, "Roe v Wade lawyer Sarah Weddington dies aged 76" (London Times).
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She is correct in the sense that the Roe edifice was built upon a faulty foundation.
I would legislatively vote to permit abortions, under reasonable conditions, but Roe was a judicial abomination, ultimately settling nothing.
I think of Roe v Wade as a house that’s sitting on the edge of a beach, where the water is coming under it and taking the sand out, and the house is full of babies.
Make Congress settle the legislation. That this is even debated about abortion issues is insane.
The house is casting a shadow over the depression in the sand.
That shadow's darkest part is called the umbra.
The shadow's outer edge -- not completely dark -- is called the penumbra.
When the house collapses into the depression, then the penumbra will disappear.
Roe v. Wade followed a coalition between (1) feminists who believed that abortion was necessary or the lesser of evils, plus the support of (2) playboys who wanted easy abortions as facilitating free love action [Hugh Hefner, Harvey Weinstein], and (3) anti-growth environmentalists who wanted fewer human beings around.
Who was manipulated most in the shuffle? Young, fertile, impressionable women who were and are targeted from all sides through fear and promises of empowerment. "It's a right to choose abortion" easily drifts into "It's RIGHT TO CHOOSE abortion."
Per falling birth rates on the left, the self-extinction of this subculture is well underway. No more babies = no more ideological advocates. I'm not saying any of this is right or wrong, just the outcome of simple and predictable evolutionary principles.
Lewis Wetzel said...
I think of Roe v Wade as a house that’s sitting on the edge of a beach, where the water is coming under it and taking the sand out, and the house is full of babies.
I visualized the water full of 50 million dead babies, all bloated and stinky
(except for the ones chopped into little pieces)
It has been said that building your house on the sand will result in a great crash.
How much that we take for granted will seem an anomaly, and how soon?
It is useful to the Democrats for Roe to be constantly in danger.
In addition to acknowledging that its foundation was built on sand, she reportedly also characterized the legal theory behind the RvW decision as a "house of cards." She was a real emissary for the logic of baby killing.
RIP (them babies apart in heaven, too)
Ironic that she used one of the more famous Biblical allegories. She built her house on feminism, and now she is in hell after the tide inevitably came in for her. Roe could ONLY survive in a society that respectably conformed to the judges, while being immoral enough to permit abortion. Now society is even less moral, but also far less conformist. The abortionists will be lucky to be safe in their precious blue states.
I remember Roger B. Taney telling me the same thing about Dred Scott sometime in 1860 ...
They sure know how to get women like you all jacked up, don’t they? If feminists were intelligent (and sometimes that’s a big “if”) they’d accept that some restrictions on abortion are going to be necessary, and you’d work to determine what the women of the United States can live with and make sure that restrictions do not go beyond that point. And that point is NOT post-partum abortion.
Abortion control and gun control are the biggest cudgels used to divide the riffraff raise money and swing elections. Forgot about carrots and sticks, fear uncertainty and doubt is the mother's milk of politics.
Wilbur said...She is correct in the sense that the Roe edifice was built upon a faulty foundation.
She accidentally spoke the truth. As always, the left prefers dictatorial powers to the messy hard work of persuasion. As a result, all their works are built upon shifting sand. The only one that persists is social security, because FDR understood that if you spread the bribes widely enough, there won’t be enough honest people left to stop you.
So, climate change is making Roe worse?
There was a young girl whose heart was a frown
'Cause she was crippled for life and she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living
So she decided to die
She drew her wheelchair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled, "You won't hurt me no more"
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
"Look, a golden winged ship is passing my way"
And it really didn't have to stop
It just kept on going
And so castles made of sand
Slips into the sea eventually
Pro tip:
Don't build the foundation of your worldview on an emanation from a penumbra. Especially if it directly results in the elimination of tens of millions of your most reliable voters.
RIP
Aborted in her 228th trimester.
She saw Obama's house in the future...
Blogger Howard said...
Abortion control and gun control are the biggest cudgels used to divide the riffraff raise money and swing elections.
At least Howard acknowledges that his side is made up of "riffraff" too.
If SCOTUS ever does away with Roe and Casey, there's a chance that no judicial nominee will ever again have to fear being asked about their opinion on Roe, or "super precedent" or "super-duper precedent" ever again. New "litmus tests" will need to be manufactured in time, but perhaps the nomination process can become more civil for a while. Reversing Roe may be a great step forward for enhancing judicial prestige.
Roe will remain, but viability will become an objective, rather than a social standard, and the consensus will discourage abortion for equitable, redistributive, and fair weather causes, just as it does with other homicides. As for guns, they will remain minority weapons of Choice by State, criminal, self-abortive, and the rare [actual] accidental discharge. That said, back to four choices, self-defense, and pre-viability.
Well said Lucien.
Roe v. Wade is going to collapse because it is an atrocity of judicial overreach that made public discourse divisive and corrosive.
The judges that authored the Roe v. Wade "decision" are a bunch of shitty people that did incredible damage to the political and social fabric of our nation. Abortion should be a local decision made in state legislatures. It is because the Supreme Court usurped this power and railroaded this topic into a box canyon that you cannot have any kind of civil discussion about abortion.
Only Marbury v. Madison was more destructive to the republic because it allowed priests in black robes to make pronouncements like Roe v. Wade.
Howard said...
Abortion control and gun control are the biggest cudgels used to divide the riffraff raise money and swing elections. Forgot about carrots and sticks, fear uncertainty and doubt is the mother's milk of politics.
Yeah, and for both of them the fear is directed at the Left
Abortion: They're going to take away my right to control my body
Gun Control: If you let those nutcases own, um carry guns in public, there will be bloody on the streets! it will be the OK Corral every day
But you can't be a leftie, without projecting your failings on the other side
Only Marbury v. Madison was more destructive to the republic
I am amazed at how corrupt Marshall was in Marbury, and disappointed by how few people mention it.
To continue bashing Howard:
What's the FUD on the Right side on Abortion Control and Gun Control?
1: They're going to murder millions of babies! Um, well, that's actually happening. It's not FUD when you're describing reality
2: They're going to give carry permits to the politically connected and rich, but not to normal people! Documented. Currently having a fight in SCOTUS about it
3:They're going to take away your guns! See Red Flag laws. See, trying to move to CA with a banned "assault rifle"
The power of the Right wing side is that there's neither honest uncertainty nor honest doubt, because we're describing what the Dems are actually doing and voting for
Me, too. Roe, Roe, Roe your baby, down the river Styx.
State sanctioned killing of innocents. Satan and Hitler smile.
I look forward to legislators dealing with the issue.
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