Personhood, Bodyhood and the Right to Not Be Aborted
Towards Ending In-Utero Genocide
Part One
A Row over Roe
If this were a cheap novel, the opening line could be: “It was a dark and stormy night…” But what follows is not fiction, for since the 1973 Roe v Wade decision, for the unborn, it has been an endless, dark and stormy night. This series of essays will attempt to move the discussion of this vital topic to a place that transcends religion, mundane law and even the Constitution.
By January 2020, the 47th anniversary of Roe, an estimated 62 million US citizens had been annihilated at some stage of their in utero development. This figure included an estimated 20 million African-American babies, sacrificed on the altar of so-called family planning and reproductive health. In effect, the US abortion industry had genocided nearly the equivalent of the Black population of 1973…23.7 million. The developing children were vacuumed out of their mother’s womb, their limbs torn from their body, their skull crushed by the abortionist’s Sopher clamp. In some cases, the mangled body would be sold to traffickers in fetal body parts and organs.
The debate over abortion has focussed, almost entirely, on the issue of “rights”, specifically, a woman’s freedom to destroy a citizen in his embryonic state, who has taken shelter in her womb. What is often overlooked in these discussions, in legal briefs, and Court decisions, are the details of the process of abortion. Although feticide has obtained government approval and medical certification, few understand the procedure, from start to finish. How many pro-choice activists are willing to watch, and stomach the reality of what goes on, in the womb, during an abortion? Having a visceral grasp of what an abortion entails, beyond the contentious issue of rights, is a vital responsibility.
Courtesy: abortionprocedures.com
Prior to 1973, the majority of States prohibited abortion. Twelve had lenient laws against it, while four, New York, Washington, Hawaii and Alaska, had decriminalized it, if performed during the early stages of pregnancy. New York became the preferred destination for women traveling for an abortion.
Of course, unless she lived in, or close to one of these abortion-friendly States, only a woman of means could afford such a trip. The poor and indigent could hardly avail themselves of this opportunity. History shows that, before the States became involved in abortions, it was generally assumed that a woman could terminate her pregnancy prior to the “quickening”, the moment when the mother could feel the fetus move.
The decision in Roe v Wade reversed whatever dampening effect State law had on the incidence of abortion. It declared open-season on the not-yet-born, flung open the floodgates of baby-killing, and for nearly five decades, enshrined feticide as a woman’s supposedly constitutional right. However, that all changed on June 24, 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe, kicking this controversial matter back to the States for voters to decide.
The decision concludes:
The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives…No state constitutional provision had recognized such a right. Until a few years before Roe, no federal or state court had recognized such a right…The inescapable conclusion is that a right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions. On the contrary, an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973.
As expected, casting all logic and reason aside, the anti-lifers freaked out and had a collective melt-down over the decision. Demonstrators took to the streets to express their outrage. Women, forgetting the tyranny of the unconstitutional Covid lockdowns, the mandated masks, testing and the experimental, unsafe and ineffective vaccines they had just endured, screamed about how their rights to bodily autonomy were being trampled. It heralded, for them, a return to the Stone Age of women’s rights.
Cheered on by a gaggle of mindless politicians, Hollywood celebs and elements of the TV chattering claque, pop-up protest groups, such as Jane’s Revenge and Ruth Sent Us, appeared, quickly establishing a broad social media footprint. Churches and anti-abortion offices were firebombed, graffitied, or otherwise damaged, and Supreme Court Justices were targeted and harassed, one of them driven out of a restaurant. The promise was, “If abortion isn't safe, you aren't either”. All under the approving glance of the White House, the DoJ, and abortion providers that have earned billions from the traffic in fetal carnage.
One world-renowned, financial expert, computer genius, historian, blogger and commentator, could only shake his head:
It is hard to comprehend how some women (became) brainwashed into thinking they had some Constitutional right to abort a child whenever they felt like it…
The fact is that understanding this is not hard at all. The Establishment machinery has had nearly 50 years to indoctrinate women with this belief. Those who have grown up in this system have been weaned on pro-abortion language and ideology, and lulled into taking abortion for granted, believing the Constitution guaranteed it. In the shadow of Roe v Wade, no one bothered to confirm whether the Constitution did, indeed, confer such a right on women. A miasma of endless, emotionally-charged slogans, like “Pro-choice”, “My body my choice”, “Reproductive healthcare”, "Woman's body, woman's choice," and "Keep your laws off my body!”, have continued to reinforce the spell. How dare the Supreme Court take away the Roe-endorsed, right-to-abortion punchbowl?
John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of this nation, observed:
Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
So, what kind of people are the anti-lifers? Where is the morality or religiosity in killing babies in the womb during the first, second, and third trimester, or even after a live birth? Were he alive today, Adams would probably consider it unconscionable to use a Constitution meant for moral and religious people, to fig-leaf the use of this violent, genocidal medical procedure against the unborn. What happens when there are not enough moral and religious people to defend the Constitution?
In a previously leaked memo, Justice Alito, who wrote the majority decision overturning Roe, declared, that it was “egregiously wrong from the start”, was based on “exceptionally weak” reasoning, and resulted in “damaging consequences”. As Thomas Paine reportedly said:
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Roe was wrong, but a 47 year-old habit of not thinking it wrong gave it the superficial appearance of being right. This was disastrous for 62 million of our unborn citizens.
Quite apart from any moral or religious considerations, the ruling in Roe was wrong because it usurped the constitutional authority of the States to decide in such matters. “We the People” created the States, and the Union of States created the Federal Government to serve the States only in certain specific areas, like national defense and interstate commerce. First seated in 1789, 13 years after the Declaration of Independence, the Supreme Court is a relative newcomer, and was never intended to rule, autocratically, over the people for whom, of whom, by whom, and I might add, from whom, the power of government flows.
In Roe, Justice Blackmun, who wrote that majority decision, could have easily upheld the rights of States to conduct their own business, in relation to abortion. Why he attempted to subvert State law is not known, but, regardless, it then became the constitutional duty of the States to oppose Blackmun and the Supreme Court for encroaching on their sovereignty, and for overstepping their constitutional authority.
It is curious that the States did not push back—hard, against this encroachment, but it probably speaks to the ever-growing, extra-constitutional power of the Federal government, and the willingness of State officials to acquiesce to that power.
The term, “pro-life”, is not necessarily a religious term. Perhaps, it is because the Catholic Church, and other Christian denominations, have been in the vanguard defending the not-yet-born, that “pro-life” has almost become synonymous with religious zealotry. Anti-lifers may feel justified in dismissing such religious persons because they espouse a theological worldview they have rejected. However, there is nothing inherently religious about life. It exists independent of any particular religion, and beyond any man-made law. It would seem, therefore, that any constructive conversation about life and the taking of life, should be held in a setting that transcends both law and religion.
Justice Alito’s “damaging consequences” statement should not be disregarded. It may not be so apparent, but an unbiased assessment of Roe’s aftermath reveals, for one thing, and as we have shown above, that abortion has devastated the Black population of the US. In June, 2015, a Center for Urban Renewal and Education report found that the African-American female was the largest consumer of the abortionist’s services. This makes sense, given that the majority of clinics operated by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s premier abortion purveyor, are located in low-income, Black and Hispanic areas.
The CDC reports that during the 1970's, roughly 24% of all U.S. abortions were performed on black women. That percentage rose to 30% in the 1980's, 34% in the 1990's, 36% throughout the 2000's and now sits at 38%. That means that roughly 32% of all U.S. abortions since 1973 have been performed on African-American women.
Although the anti-lifers advance pregnancies resulting from incest and rape as reasons to guarantee unrestricted access to abortion, one Florida study found that only 0.01% of abortions were due to incest, and 0.15% were due to rape. In contrast, 94% of abortions were elective, or performed for “societal or economic reasons”.
Against this backdrop, we must confront the hypocrisy of those who promote abortion, which has become, for the most part, a way to promote and sustain the “hook-up” culture, avoid the responsibilities of parenting, and let men “off the hook.” Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, recently boasted about her wonderful family and the children with whom God had blessed her. Yet, she ardently promotes and supports abortion for other peoples’ children. Her endorsement of abortion has outraged several Catholic Bishops who have taken the bold step of banning her, a supposedly devout Catholic, from taking Communion. Her recent attempt to take Communion directly from the Pope was also unsuccessful.
Politicians such as Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have given their full support to the targeted harassment of the Supreme Court Justices who voted to overturn Roe. Schumer is on record publicly warning Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that they “won’t know what hit them”. His dog-whistling did not go unnoticed, and a potential assassin subsequently showed up on Kavanaugh’s street, admitting to law enforcement that he traveled all the way from the California den of baby-killing iniquity, to kill him. If people like Schumer are prepared to inflict terror on the unborn, so casually, what evil will they not incite and commit?
From the Church’s perspective, what part of “Thou shalt not kill” does Pelosi not understand? Pelosi is also the holder of the highest Planned Parenthood award, named after its Founder, eugenicist Margaret Sanger, and bestowed upon her in 2014. Her message is clear, unambiguous, and consistent with the eugenics agenda of the world’s pseudo elite: “Feticide for thee, but not for me.” They would never think of aborting their own babies, but will do everything possible to help you abort yours.
Only 20 years after Roe v Wade, baby-killing factories were already doing a brisk trade. Time magazine (8/8/93) ran a story about a notorious abortionist who operated three clinics servicing areas of Alabama and Mississippi. At the time of the article, Dr. Tom Tucker was performing about 7,000 abortions a year, earning him around $200,000 ($385,885 in today’s dollars). Tucker would later lose his license, and be forced to pay $10M to the family of a mother of 5, who bled to death following a botched abortion in one of his clinics.
The 20 million Black babies, aborted since 1973, also expose the abject hypocrisy of the Black Lives Matter political movement. If the largest consumer of abortion services is the Black mother, how are we to understand that Black lives matter—to Blacks? At what point do they matter? Only when a White cop shoots a Black person? Few seem to care that every year, scores of Blacks, including innocent children, are gunned down in Chicago, Baltimore and Washington DC, for example, by other Blacks.
The BLM movement also received millions of dollars in donations from woke corporations and guilt-ridden Whites. Where did this money go? What we now know is that one of the movement’s founders later went on a multi-million dollar, real estate buying spree. The rest remains largely missing-in-action, unaccounted for, and likely to become the subject of future IRS probes. We are in awe at how cleverly the emotion that fueled the George Floyd protests had been leveraged into a large fortune for the benefit of a few.
What was BLM’s substantive contribution to the Black community, besides stirring the glue-pot of race hatred? How did the Black community benefit? How does one explain the fact that the Head of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s premier purveyor of baby-killing services, is a Black woman? Let’s see: Biggest consumers of abortion services: Black women. Check. Biggest abortion services salesperson: a Black woman. Check. Yes. Black lives certainly matter, as do all lives, but the killing of little, Black babies is essential to keeping the financial wheels of the abortion industry well-oiled.
Long before the easy availability of abortion, the procedure had to be performed secretly. A pregnant woman had to know where to go and whom to approach, if she wanted to terminate her pregnancy. A knowledgeable midwife, or “healer”, could advise her what herb, abortifacient, or emmenagogue would get the job done. If they knew where to find it, they could harvest worm fern, known by its more colorful name, prostitute’s root, and brew a tea from it.
Worm fern, Prostitute’s root
It is indisputable that abortion is an old industry, as old as the so-called “oldest profession”—prostitution, and an indispensable companion of that trade. Today, we have successfully managed to prostitute almost our entire society, making casual, irresponsible, sexual activity one of its defining traits. Why are feminized men, dressed in colorful, extroverted gear, permitted to prance around seductively, sometimes at tax-payer expense, before young, impressionable, State-supervised children, held captive in our schools, libraries and other State-run venues?
School administrators and teachers were formerly charged with ensuring their students had mastered the 3 Rs: reading, writing and ‘rithmetic. Today, they are actively permitting and participating in grooming our children and indoctrinating them into early sexual experimentation, into repudiating their birth sex, while mutilating their bodies, and embracing so-called alternative lifestyles. These “lifestyles” might better be described as “deathstyles”, since they are sterilizing, and thus suicidal to the human species—a more sophisticated form of self-inflicted, eugenics-based depopulation.
What will be the result of all this childhood grooming and indoctrination? Will it help develop, in them, a more responsible attitude towards sex? Will they learn, for example, how to develop meaningful, caring relationships, avoid sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancies? Will this lead to a more chaste society, or one more promiscuous? Is there value in chastity? Where are the “moral and religious people” for whom John Adams thought the Constitution was created? One thing is clear, the prevalence of abortion, nowadays, a kind of delayed, long-after-intercourse birth-control, will only increase to deal with the natural results of our growing promiscuity. That promiscuity is reaching down into the lowest levels of elementary school.
The debate over abortion is a debate over who should live and who should die. The “crime" the unborn have committed, is to have been conceived. For that, they must forfeit their lives—the chance to be born, endowed with the right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness. If that is indeed a crime, and the so-called “rule of law” does not protect these defenseless persons, then, it becomes necessary to look beyond mundane law.
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Halayudha...
I loved your publication for the following reasons:
You started with a bang: I love the intro line... "a dark & stormy night" and then you assigned it to what the baby is going thru. Brilliant -
Nobody wants to talk about the process of abortion and the carnage that it really is.
Also making the point that it's not about rights but responsibility (even if they cannot parent that child, they can still gift it to someone, SP advised to do that to my friend who accidentally got pregnant after an affair!
I've been making that point about responsibility for years and when the subject came up, I'd say: " if you are responsible enough to spread your legs, you should be responsible enough to birth that baby"
Very well written with journalistic qualities. It has a calm and mild tone despite the gruesome subject...It was easy to read and I thought I was reading an article in a professional paper or magazine - your style of writing is very appealing...you MUST continue to write!!!
Very well researched - the stats added an important element of reality - you can't argue with numbers! The FL study was relevant as they use rape and incest as an excuse to justify the right to abort .
I loved how you exposed the hypocrisy of Pelosi, BLM, etc..."Feticide for thee, but not for me" & I say: black babies lives matter too!
Finally I'm glad that you called abortion what it is: "delayed birth control" - a heavy thing to do for being neglectful & out of control.
Well done and mama approved !
Truthfully never really understood the details of this whole Roe v Wade debate since I didn't take time to dive into the details. This essay is an amazing historical summary no matter which "side" you are on!