Watching It All Unravel

IT HASN'T BEEN ALL that long ago. I think myabe it was about the time that young attractive lady was confirmed for the Supreme Court, Elizabeth Barret Browing, Amy Comey Barret, or whomever. The one with the voice of a teenager, and hard ass far right personal political ideology, her single most important qualification for placement on the nation's highest court. Suddenly the Supreme Court had become six three far right wing, and many progressives, on social media, and in real time and real space, started panic predicting that the Supreme Court would now, because of Trump's three picks, overturn Roe v. Wade. As is often the case, I couldn't keep my mouth shut when perhaps I should have. With western movie star confidence I calmly predicted, with self assurance, that Roe v. Wade would never be overturned, by any court now or in the future, that Roe v. Wade is settled law, and settled law stands. I really believed it. I cited for myself and to others several times, wome in recent memory, when a conservtive Supreme court made a liberal decision, such as legalizing gay marriage and upholding Obamacare. Supreme Court justices are people of such high caliber and intellectual perspicacity that they tend to transcend their personal beliefs, ideologies, and prejudices, and interpret the law based upon their best reading and understanding of the law, full stop, as people say. Boy, was I ever wrong. All of my progressive colleagues told me it was out of my mind to even think for a moment that the new Trump far right wing Supreme Court would leave Roe. v. Wade in place, that it was doomed, and that I had better get ready to accept that stark reality. Resolute and unmoved, I stuck to my guns. Boy, was I ever wrong, or so it now strongly seems, what with the publication of the leaked Supreme Court rough draft opinion which goeth viral even as we speaketh. But relly, when you think about it, Roe v. Wade was decided on rather sketchy" grounds, on the basis of the implied but not explicitly enumerated "right to privacy", which progressives believe all Americans inherently possess, and which strict constitutional constructionalist conservatives do not. According to the "leaked" (stolen) document, the current court brilliantly makes the argument that the United States constitution does not guarantee anyone the right to an abortion. Nor, of course, does our seemingly sacred constitution say anything at all about abortion, but, like the Holy Bible, is silent on the matter. Somehow, doesn't it seem at least a little bit strange that nine unelected people are responsible for deciding this issue? Biden now says that he plans to promote legislation guaranteeing legal abortion - what took us so long?