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To the Editor,
Norma McCorvey, Roe v. Wade's "Jane Roe," had claimed to have been gang-raped and, unable to get an abortion, was forced to carry her rapist's child. That, she later admitted, and like so much of leftist rhetoric, was a lie -- she had simply gotten pregnant, and sought to use it, to bolster the case for legalized abortion.
With the Supreme Court's reversing Roe v. Wade, the American left is bitterly distraught, and wildly angry. The illusory right to abort the consequences of personal irresponsibility must, they insist, be guaranteed, at all costs. "Choice!" they cry.
"What of rape and incest?" they indignantly ask. Why force those poor women to have their babies?
Rape and incest, together, compose around 1 percent of abortions, yearly. Medically necessary procedures, around 2 percent. The rest are avoidable, "oopsies" abortions, resulting from scarcities of personal responsibility. Naturally, they downplay these facts.
Younger people already bemoan the detrimental effect this will have on hookup culture.. They won't be able to just have sex with anybody they want, anymore, and easily avoid the very likely consequences. They might have to be a little more careful, now; responsible. Make better choices.
Terrible situation; intolerable.
The feckless, failing Biden circus, naturally, is playing to its base, pretending they can do something about it, yet already knowing they can't.
I predict this'll be a variant of the erasing student loan debt carrot. Every election cycle, Democrat candidates pull out that listless, withered, shriveled carrot, dangling it before the age 20-40 somethings, pledging to make it happen, this time. Then, if elected, they shrug, admit nothing can be done, and the carrot goes away, until next election. Abortion will, perhaps, be similar; another impossible issue Democrats can use to manipulate emotions, and exploit for votes.
Some more radical pro-abortion elements threaten violence, having vandalized, and in at least one case even set afire, several pregnancy crisis centers.
Some of the more crazed zealots, apparently having selected the hill on which they choose to die, are calling for civil war over this issue.
Y'know, because they can't freely kill their babies anymore, women's rights are completely erased. It's 1622, again.
Some liberal women, ridiculously, don their red and white "The Handmaid's Tale" costumes, standing in silent, creepy ranks at protests.
It's not unlike Black Lives Matter, really. Pretending the occasional white, or Black, cop killing a Black suspect--often, later revealed to have been a known criminal--while violently resisting arrest, is a major, ongoing problem. An indication of white supremacy and systemic racism. It's always 1930. It has to be, or their angry, divisive rhetoric lacks substance.
The petulant left constantly immerses itself in two things: Outright fiction, and the past. Present reality simply doesn't support the narratives they desperately need, to justify their ideological outrage.
In at least two states, aborting full term, delivered, healthy babies, is legal. This atrocity, the bridge too far, is what I feel caused this backlash.
Abortion's supporters, pushing too hard, brought this upon themselves.
Rob Denham
Weirton