By Richard McDonough

“Some Republican leaders are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women. … How dare they tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her own body. … How dare they try to deny women their rights and their freedoms.” —Kamala Harris, EMILY’s List conference, May 3, 2022

Kamala Harris is so upset about the leaked Samuel Alito draft majority opinion that suggests the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade, the controversial 1973 ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, that she has taken to imitating her boss and yelling at people. It seems that the evil Republicans have put fascists on the Supreme Court that are going to overturn Roe v. Wade, just like Joe Biden himself wanted to do back in 1973 in accordance with his alleged Roman Catholicism.

Hillary Clinton, in response to this possibly illegal leak, stated that the vote to repeal a law that feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg described as poorly crafted is an “utter disgrace”. This decision, Hillary continued, “will kill and subjugate women even as a vast majority of Americans think abortion should be legal.”

Elizabeth Warren, whose career received a big boost when she nailed down a spot at Harvard reserved for her tribe, is “visibly shaken … angry … and determined” and literally shrieking at how upset she is. Since calling to “fight” is a call to insurrection, according to the January 6 script created by the news media and Democrat Party to take down Trump, Warren even called for an insurrection to keep Roe v. Wade because “we’ve heard enough from the extremists.”

A very distressed Kirsten Powers explained to CNN’s Don Lemon the problem with Alito’s draft opinion by appealing to the Marxist vision of the evil patriarchy and invoked the irrelevant issue of race for enhanced emotional effect: “This argument is, like, peak patriarchy. It’s a self-reinforcing loop that you can never get out of because the men [emphasis mine] who wrote the Constitution hundreds of years ago … believed women were their property. … We don’t look to history to mimic people who believed that women and black people were their property.” Kirsten opines that one cannot get out of the evil patriarchy “loop” because the Constitution was created by evil “men” to prevent women and black people from being treated fairly — which explains why Oprah, Kamala, Beyonce, Warren, and Kirsten herself do not exist.

Lemon, in the same clip, suggests that the separation between church and state should prevent conservative Supreme Court judges from imposing their Christian religious beliefs on Americans generally.

Biden, who promised in 2020 to “heal a divided nation,” agrees. To prove it, he divided the American people into the deplorable “MAGA crowd” that “is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed … in recent American history,” more evil than the KKK. Joe is upset that president Trump put people on the Supreme Court that render decisions Democrats do not agree with, and that is just not permissible anymore. What good is the “democratic” process if it does not give the “Democrats” what they want? These evil MAGA “extremists” are to be contrasted with the good people on Joe’s side of the aisle whose votes he needs in next November’s election.

Unfortunately, there are a few tiny little flaws with this Democrat storyline.

First, Kamala’s argument that the Republicans are telling women what they can do with their own body is question-begging (assumes what it purports to prove). Thus, the real question, for serious people, is whether the new life growing inside a woman’s body is part of her body or an independent individual with its own body. After all, the fetus normally has a different blood type from the mother. Serious people, with sufficient logical-philosophical training, understand that this is a very difficult question that cannot be left to power-hungry demagogues. Anti-abortionists hold that at a certain period of development, the fetus’ body is no longer part of the woman’s body but a separate human being residing in her womb. If that is true, no one is telling women what they can do with their own body.

Second, it is simply not true that in Alito’s draft, Republicans are telling women what to do with their bodies. Kamala, Warren, Powers, Lemon, and Biden fail to grasp that overturning Roe v. Wade merely returns the question to the states, where this thing called “the democratic process” will take place and the American people (remember them?) will vote in these things called “elections” to determine whether or to what extent abortion will be regulated. Donald Trump, evil Republicans, MAGA extremists, evil Christians, and the six conservative justices do not, in the Alito draft, tell women what to do. Rather, it lets the American people decide these matters in 50 separate democratic processes across the nation. Democrats will still be able to kill all the “children” (Joe’s word) they want in California, Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and other Democrat utopias. One would probably find significant restrictions on abortion in “red” states, but Alito’s draft does not prevent women in those states from traveling to “blue” states to terminate their pregnancy.

Power’s Marxist fantasy about the evil patriarchy “loop” is transparently wrong because anti-abortionists include both males and females in almost equal numbers. Power’s and Marx’s patriarchy has an embarrassingly large number of women in it.

Lemon’s claim that opposition to abortion is Christian-based is false because many other religions, including Buddhism, some sects of Islam, and Judaism, oppose abortion. There is even atheist opposition to abortion on purely moral grounds.

The standard pro-abortionist claim that the opponents of Roe v. Wade are “extremists” is refuted by simple math. “Extremism” is defined by reference to proximity to “the norm,” and the “norm” is defined as the typical or the standard. But a recent Gallup poll reveals that American attitudes to abortion are evenly divided, with 49% identifying as “pro-choice” and 47% identifying as “pro-life.” Pro-abortionists are factually wrong that anti-abortion views are extremist. Since opinions on abortion are so evenly divided in the United States, this is precisely the sort of issue tailor-made to be settled democratically — and that is precisely what the Alito draft, which turns this issue over to the democrat process in the individual states, does. Democrats love to claim they are defenders of democracy, but they are in fact terrified of it.

Finally, there is no necessity that a single woman must be killed by overturning Roe v. Wade, but Hillary has not shed any tears for the 330,000 little girls that were killed by abortion in 2019.