Adhering To Form

THE SUPREE COURT case invlving the state of Mississippi and its three year old law severely limiting abortion rights was and will remain a formality; not a "mere" formality, but a formality nonetheless, because even a cursory understanding of human nature tells us that all nine of the justices already know exactly how they will vote on the issue, and knew long before the case came before them. After all, they, like the rest of us, have had an entire lifetime to think about it, and to decide. They will vote on whether to uphold Roe v. Wade based upon their personal ideological beliefs, whatever anyone has to say to them in open court. Nonetheless, formality or not, the process must be completed, because, as a wise thinker once said, the legal system is an ornate platform elevating the human species above the rest of the animal kingdom, and must be preserved and pursued for the sake of civilization. The "liberal" justices evidently expresssed concern that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead people to believe that the high court has been "politicized". That bus has already left the barn, one might say. The supreme court has long been "politicized", arguably has always been politicized, and can never be anything other than politicized, since people are inherently political in a society whose nature and structure is determined by political processes. Observant people have long been aware of the political nature of the United States Supreme Court. I have been insisting that the court would not reverse Roe v. Wade, because the decision legalizing abortion was well decided, and would therefore be upheld. But any conservative justice willing to support the 1973 ruling, and such justices exist on the court, including the Chief Justice, has already decided to support it, because he or she has had a lifetime to weigh the arguments for and against it, and has long since decided. It is not necesary to listen to other people delivering the arguments to have already taken them into consideration and decided on them. It might be worthwhile to consider the uselessness of human law regarding abortion. No matter what the laws of humanity are, according to the laws of nature, and nature's God, as Jefferson might say, a fetus within a womb is entirely at the mercy of the womb's owner. The pregnant woman can terminate her pregnancy whenever she chooses, despite the best efforts of othr people to regulate her choice. Abortions will occur in large numbers regardless of the legal status of abortion, just as they did before Row v. Wade, or before states began criminalizing abortion in the middle of the nineteenth century. By the end of the American Civil War, abortion was outlawed in most states, and remained so until 1973. And, despite my predictions, it now begins to appear that a woman's reproductive choices will once again be truncated by government, albeit uselessly.