Back after the leak of the Dobbs decision that presaged the overturning of the Row v Wade decision, John Davidson wrote an article for the Federalist that praised the decision. The Dobbs decision returned some semblance of sanity to cases being argued in the Supreme Court. The decision was a triumph for how our founding fathers saw the branches of government. Davidson also warned about the potential violent after effects of the decision.
The end of Roe v. Wade is perhaps the greatest political and cultural event in a generation. It will change American politics forever, and — what’s more important — it will save the lives of countless unborn children. The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs is a great victory for the U.S. Constitution, for the American people, and for justice and truth and the common good.
It is also a turning point. We should now expect Democrats and the left to call more explicitly for violence, initially against places like crisis pregnancy centers and Catholic churches, as we have already seen, and eventually against ordinary people who disagree with them. We should expect not just calls for physical attacks against the justices in the Dobbs majority, but, as we have also already seen, attempts to carry out such attacks.
How many attacks have there been since the leak of the decision?
When the Left loses in court, violence almost inevitably follows. They couch their reasoning for such violence under euphemisms like equality and equity. According to the Left, losing the right to murder an unborn child makes a woman a second-class citizen.
Davidson notes Justice Breyer’s dissent:
“Respecting a woman as an autonomous being, and granting her full equality, meant giving her substantial choice over this most personal and most consequential of all life decisions.” Note the phrase “full equality.” Without a right to abortion, women do not have full equality, goes the argument.
It is not the first time Democrats have asserted absolute constitutional rights that for their vindication require the total abnegation of rights or even personhood of entire classes of people. The modern Democratic Party’s stance on abortion rights is almost indistinguishable from its antebellum stance on the constitutionality of slaveowner rights.
Prior to the Civil War amendments, Democrats asserted that the inherent rights of white men, not just property rights but all of them, required the complete denial of the rights of black Americans. Today, Democrats assert that the inherent rights of women require the complete denial of the rights of the unborn.
Is a civil war in the offing? Remember that the last time Democrats denied the rights of a segment of the population, that is what followed. How many people died because of that?
Some states have granted personhood to the unborn child. However, the Democrats are continuing to deny any rights to the unborn child. Not only that but in some states the Dems also support the right of mothers to end a child’s life AFTER it is born. How long into the future will the good people of this country permit this?