Will The GOP Packed Supreme Court Rape Women On Roe?

By Donald A. Collins | 29 November 2021
Church and State

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As deliberation begins at the Supreme Court this week on the Mississippi abortion law which is only now coming because then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to allow President Obama’s nominee, DC Circuit Court Judge, Merrick Garland, to be appointed to the Court. You can recall that sad injustice by reading it here.

Current Guttmacher Institute research tells us that “The U.S. Abortion Rate Continues to Drop: Once Again, State Abortion Restrictions Are Not the Main Driver”. Read the facts here.

Trump was subsequently able to put 3 anti-abortion zealots on the Court who now most people believe will vote to kill Roe, which is saying that since half the yearly US pregnancies are unintended, the revocation of Roe will make those that will occur unsafe.

The morality of the religion these zealots bow to is not enhanced by its history of priestly misbehaviors as the one you can read about here.

As the obituary in the November 29, 2021 Washington Post tells us, “Phil Saviano, advocate for survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, dies at 69. After recovering from AIDS, he found a new sense of purpose as an activist.”

It is really worth reading the above article, then pondering what these ideologues on the Supreme Court would be doing if they kill Roe.

The history of religious use of myths to gain political power and wealth has never better illustrated than by the Roman Catholic Church. Wikipedia gives us more history of its abuses here. Does its credibility and the present Roe threat seem slightly bizarre after reading its record of morality here?

I have always hoped for enlightened religious behavior that was open to choice not willful oppression of religious fantasies in a secular republic such as ours which was founded mostly by deists. Our founding fathers certainly did not want religious beliefs to be injected into secular law.

Roe was decided in January of 1973 and has served well in safely providing mostly first trimester abortions in a well-established service network. In short to kill Roe would create a problem where none exists. Does that remind you of the allegations of voter fraud by Trump, again where proven none exists?

I helped produce some time ago a video which got wide national coverage then called “Whose Choice?” in which Sarah Weddington, who argued for Roe before the Supreme Court in 1973 and religious leaders of many faiths including a Catholic priest named Daniel Maguire spoke out for Roe which can viewed on this web site.

Trump in his constant selling of fear and hatred on all public issues he encounters has set up the perfect moment for recalculating the future of our democracy at the midterms.

While it is widely expected that the GOP will take control in 2022 of at least one House, the recognition of the true authoritarian goals of Trump and his lying colleagues hopefully might bring some of his present adherents to their senses.

You recall the RCC hierarchy once subjected Galileo to house arrest because he dared to state earth revolved around the sun, not viceversa!

Goodbye To Roe, but perhaps, just perhaps, to some of the power of the GOP which took women down this dreadful alley.

Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Washington, DC, has spent over 40 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?” and “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?: Leaders Commit to Reduce Human Population”.

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