Now that this is a political argument, we win, which is what the overturning of Roe has accomplished. Not quickly, but eventually. Roe served to protect the pro-abort status quo by making laws against abortion, except on the margins, legally impossible. Now abortion is a live political issue. Soon, half the country will end most abortions. The Blue States will become abortion meccas and the battle between life and death states will play out in the political arena. My money is always on life long term.
Friday, May 10, AD 2024 10:23pm
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I agree with Dorothy Day who saw abortion as a symptom of other cultural issues. Abortion, used as a form of population control of the poor and marginalized is a form of neo-eugenics.
She wrote: “abortion happens because, as a culture, we no longer have the love of neighbour necessary to cultivate a culture of life. And so we give stones instead of bread, snakes instead of fish.”
For her, the way forward for re-humanizing the world was not first through law and legislation but through attention.
it is not so much that she objected to a moral law as she objected to the use of law as an extension of economic ambition or as a substitute for virtue. For Day, laws, when they are not supporting unjust economic and political ends, dull our moral sensibilities by equating the life of virtue with legal acquiescence. She was wholly in favour of order but argued that “we must work to make that kind of an order in which ‘it is easier for man to be good.’” Such order, however, was rooted not so much in law as in the slow pursuit of virtue, in subsidiary communities in which all persons found meaningful work, meaningful community, and a call toward being responsible for their own lives.
And so, turning to law to organize our social lives, while expedient, was, for Day, ultimately unjust: it failed to see the person before them, and to address that person as one in need of the healing grace of God in particular ways.
If I were to write a letter to the editor my my local paper (I may) on Democratic politicians clamoring for late term abortion it would be titled: “Ghouls on Display… “
I am very skeptical about Day’s attitudes. She worried that society will give a stone instead of bread? She should have reminded women of the responsibilities related to their freedoms and behaviors. Too many women seem convinced they have a right to demand a living from society if they conceive a child. ..Especially when they conceived from being promiscuous.
I agree with Dorothy Day – corruptissima republica plurimae leges.
I also note that when states had different laws about slavery, the only resolution was civil war. Now we’ll have states with different laws about abortion. Will the same resolution (God forbid!) come to pass? Will Democrats never rest till they are defeated by force of arms because they have never rested in the past till they were defeated by force of arms? Democrats have always considered certain classes of people to be property: first blacks and now pre-born babies. Tell me: what has changed?
“I agree with Dorothy Day – corruptissima republica plurimae leges.”
That does not entirely make sense. I’ve never heard of government having compelled a woman to be intimate.
Legalized murder of unborn children is what changed. The tired and popular old mantra that the Civil War was all about slavery continues in perpetuity. If Lincoln had issue a call for volunteers to “free the slaves” instead of “put down the rebellion” he would have had fewer volunteers in the beginning. In our present state of knowledge only a fool or a knave would defend slavery, but to equate it with the murder of the unborn is to denigrate the present day evil of both.
Roe v. Wade never bore the budren of proof that the newly begotten living soul was not “created equal” as all men are.
The living witness to and evidence of incest, rape, sex trafficking, fornication and adultery is obliterated into silence to obscure the crimes against women.