I woke up Friday morning, and I was grumpy. I love my job, but work hasn't been the most fun the last month or so. We have tons of patients with bronchitis, COVID, and even the flu. Who gets the flu in June? Tons of patients means tons of prescriptions, which we are attempting to fill with reduced hours, because this is supposed to be our slow time of the year. So yeah, not a barrel of fun. Luckily I have a great pharmily. (No, that is not a typo.) Wait, where was I? Oh yeah, I woke up grumpy. This coming week I work five straight days, which means my almost completed schooling is going to be set back by almost a week. Most of my family will be out of town, and I was really looking forward to a couple of days to clean, study in silence, and even work on painting my front porch. I usually don't stay grumpy, because I have made it a habit to study my Bible before anything else. If you haven't tried it, it works. While I'm waking up, I usually check my email (should tell you how important I think that is), see if anyone on my several Pharmacy pages has posted anything funny, and then scan the news headlines. I hadn't even opened my Bible and grumpy was cured. The US Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade and Planned Parenthood V Casey. I've only waited some 30 years for that to happen, and people like my mom have been waiting since 1973.
As I do plan to write more detailed posts on the opinion itself, I'm not going to delve into too much detail, but as a person who loves history, politics, and constitutional law, I have always believe that Roe was one of the worst decisions that the Supreme Court has ever made. If you read that decision, they literally couldn't come up with where exactly the right to an abortion existed. How do you rule something a constitutional right, when you can't even point to the part of said document that confers that right? The result of the decision is the death of more than 63 million unborn children since 1973, bitter divisiveness in our country, and an inability for one side to have any say in the decision. And all of that came about, as I said before, over a right that even it's grantors couldn't tell us where they found it.
Abortion is not a guaranteed right in the constitution. Access to abortion doesn't violate the right to privacy (a right that also doesn't explicity exist in the constitution), it doesn't violate equal protection, and no, it also doesn't violate due process. It is also the only "right" over the last 49 years, that guaranteed someone had to die in order for that right to be exercised. Maybe I have a whacked out opinion (really, I don't), but I have a little trouble with a right being conferred on one group of people that explicitly causes another group of people to die. That seems unfair, and un-American.
That's all I'm going to say about the decision proper here. My real reason for writing this has everything to do with some of the most asinine things that are being said today. Apparently, because I'm pro-life, I only care about unborn children (not true), I only care about babies who are white and straight (not true), someone should burn down the houses of five SC Justices (wow, arson is still a crime), Amy Coney-Barret's uterus should be forcefully ripped out of her (assault is still a crime, and likely if it's forceably, that results in death, and murder is also a crime), we are living in the Handmaid's Tale (is our goverment sanctioning rape to increase our population?), the religious nuts did this! (I know quite a few very non-religious people who were quite happy with this decision), and some of my favorites are people actually advocating that women buy a HORSE DRUG to induce abortion. Not to mention the name calling, the hate, the absolutely atrocious behavior over something that is still perfectly legal in most states. Someone spouted actual falsehoods at my daughter today, and when she pointed it out, the person said "I love being ignorant towards you." and when pointed out that she was incorrect on her points again "Good! As long as it pisses you off". These same people who are spewing hate, advocating for riots and murder, cheering on the burning down of crisis pregnancy centers, last week were accusing some of us of "hate" because we said "um, men can't get pregnant". Hate is in full force today.
The sad thing is, so much of this is coming from people I thought I knew. I say thought, because 10 years ago, none of them would have said the things they are saying today. What changed? What happened that made people think that it was okay, not to change what they believe, but that in changing, they could then attack the people they used to align with? Vicisouly attack them. What you say on the internet is forever, so when you go after someone, it doesn't go away. When you say hateful things, they aren't just remembered but preserved for ... well forever. So when you call the child you love a parasite, you do realize someday that child might see that? I have no words....
And then I did my Bible study today. "Lord, is it Warfare? Teach me to stand." My Bible study is on Ephesians. The whole book, but if you know the Bible, you know Ephesians is where Paul talks about putting on the armor of God. It's warfare, my friends. Everyday the devil gets angrier, because as God says, his time is getting shorter. He aims to take down as many people as he can before Jesus rightfully exiles him to the place that was created for him and his followers. He is using people, even people we know and love, to throw darts at us, hoping at least one of them will stick. I've noticed that he's winning with some people, as they turn their back on the truth, and instead listen to the lie that tickles their ears. That won't be me, but I also won't be engaging in fruitless arguments with people who think their own children were parasites before they were born, or people who think their parents should have aborted them, or people that actually think abortion is a human right (because human rights obviously should involve killing another human...right?). I'm going to pray, continually. I'm going to keep reading the Bible, and I'm going to stand...firm. And I'm going to praise the God of all wonders, because yesterday, after 49 years, I was given the right to fight back.
