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Finally, the decades-long effort of a minority of Americans may pay off when the Supreme Court issues what is expected to be a decision next year either overturning or gutting Roe v. Wade.
It will be a happy day for the pro-life movement, a day of angst for the pro-choice movement, and a very dark day in the history of this democracy for anyone who still believes in the separation of powers theory that underpins this republic.
On the other hand …
For the vast majority of the American people who just want this country to work again, this anticipated decision by the hand-picked handmaidens of the hard right may be just what the doctor ordered.
This doesn’t have all that much to do with whether women can have convenient access to health clinics that perform abortions — although that is precisely what this case is about. Or whether poor people, or people unable to leave their families, their jobs or their current circumstances have to travel far distances to obtain those needed or wanted procedures.
Or, whether we return to that time in our history, barely a half century ago, when women in need were forced into back alleys, mutilated by quack medics and forever shunned by polite, morally superior society all to the great detriment of a democracy that says it believes in the equality of its citizens.
No, this is about whether the female side of our population equation should be required to do any of that just to exert the kind of independent control over their own health decisions, their family planning considerations, their mental status or any number of other valid reasons that the male side of the equation takes 100% for granted.
It is also about fulfilling a long-held desire of the far-right in society to destroy whatever institutions of government are still functioning after the Trump-era tried its best to dismantle it all. Their demented path toward the power of anarchy.
Fairy tales can come true and dreams and nightmares — however horrific — can become reality.
The United States is in the middle of a nightmare — you know, the one in which the crazies on the right and left seem to take over the vast and up-til-now silent majority of America that just wants to live its God- and Constitution-given right to pursue life, liberty and happiness. And the only way to wake up and dream big again is to stop these nuts in their tracks.
And that can only happen when the silent majority becomes vocal, becomes angry, becomes adamant and becomes THE force to be reckoned with such that no amount of dark money, gerrymandering and irregular vote counting can overcome the will of the people.
So what can cause such a large wave of enthusiastic voters hell-bent on making the next elections the change elections?
In the old days there was an ad line that said “it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”
If the Supreme Court tells American women — most of whom have grown up believing that they are approaching equality with men — that they no longer have equal status with the men in this country by decreeing that their rights to make decisions about their health and their lives are less than their male counterparts, I predict that it won’t be Mother Nature we need to fear.
Mothers everywhere or any person capable of being a mother will be scorned by … the men. And we know all about women and hell and the fury that can result.
So, come on, Supreme Court zealots and your handlers on the far right, hand society’s hypocrites a victory. And, then, look out.
It is the nature of most women to do whatever it takes to cast their votes to cancel (this could be the one time I agree with such an effort) anyone who thinks that males should be superior to females in this country. And their numbers will include many men who will be equally offended on behalf of their mothers, their daughters, their sisters and their wives.
Watching democracy at work can be a thing of beauty.
