Roe v. Wade was wrong and everyone knows it, including ferocious defenders of abortion. They excuse its legal and ethical deficiencies because they agree with the outcome - and thus were generations of "ends justify the means" political corruption unleashed.
You can't say you love democracy if you also think democracy should be jettisoned like rubbish every time there's a crisis, every time the ruling elite need to impose a "correct" decision on the entire country through fiat. Roe helped launch our drift toward authoritarianism.
Sure, you can talk about "freedom" and cast your silly little votes - but the really important decisions will be made on high by the Anointed Ones and imposed from coast to coast through inescapable decrees. You are not allowed to vote on a growing list of "settled" issues.
There is a continuum leading from Roe to our evolving modern system of authoritarianism and fascism - political decrees enforced through corporate muscle. Democracy was subverted, and authoritarianism was the inevitable result. It's snowballing very rapidly now.
A TV host just went on a foamy tirade and demanded authoritarian rule, with U.S. troops deployed against civilians. We are very far down the slope that began with "you grubby Little People can't be trusted to make decisions about abortion."
https://twitter.com/TrumpJew2/status/1465760204461588483
We were told not to trust democracy, the republic, federalism - i.e. not to trust OURSELVES - to handle the unquestionably painful issue of abortion. Rejecting that decision would be a good first step toward regaining our common dignity and resisting authoritarianism.
The post-Roe landscape would be messy and "divisive," absolutely. There would be bitter arguments and heated elections. And that's how democracy works. That stuff means it IS working. It's not always placid - and a strong nation, a great people, can handle that.
If Americans wish to be a great people, we must not shy away from the burdens of responsibility that come with greatness. We must not hand tough decisions over to the elite with an exasperated sigh, trading the tough arguments of freedom for manufactured "consensus."
And if you don't want to be ruled by authoritarians, you must reject ends-justify-the-means power grabs. If limits on power are jettisoned in times of strife and fear, the elite will never stop finding ways to divide and terrify us. /end
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