June 24, 2022 is a marked day in the United States for it was then that the Supreme Court reversed itself on the federalization of abortion. In the court’s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, they did not rule that abortion was illegal or that their abortion was legal, but that the Constitution made no provision for the court to make such a ruling and stepped away from the issue casting it back on the states.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG), a long-standing liberal on the Court who retired in 2020 thus paving the way for the Trump nominee, Amy Coney Barrett; realized the shallow thinking of the 1973 SCOTUS decision. Among statements she made was this one in a 2009 interview: “[t]he basic thing is that the government has no business making that choice for a woman.” (New York Times, 2009). After the leak of the Dobbs ruling in early May, the New York Post printed this: “Although Ginsburg firmly advocated for women’s access to abortion as a constitutional right, she criticized the way in which Roe v. Wade established that right,” (May 4, 2022).
The June 24th decision will likely have only a slight effect on abortion as some states already have equally liberal if not more liberal laws on their books. Some states have or will likely soon have more restrictive abortion laws. In the midst of these wide positions is the pill which is more and more readily available via mail order. Furthermore, many large companies, many of whom are ruled by progressives, socialists and those WOKE, are telling their employees to go to any acceptable state to get an abortion for which they will then pay. So, abortion has not gone away, only the means or limits somewhat shifted.
June 24th was a win, while not a real large win, yet a win for the rule of law – for the Constitution (and for state’s rights) and for that we must be very thankful. For more than a half century, activist judges and courts have been making law and effectively circumventing the will of the people which is supposed to be expressed by elected legislators. The duty of the court is to check the laws crafted by legislators against existing laws, not find reasons to make law. June 24th was a win for the Constitution – for law.
Furthermore, June 24th was a step – maybe large – toward a restoration of balance between freedom and duty. For many decades now, reaching back into the 50’s, the idea of freedom has been growing in influence with the importance of law fading. Freedom without Law is Portland, OR, in 2020. Freedom without Law is the southern border. Freedom without Law is gross spending with little or no thought to debt, borrowing consequences, or repayment. Freedom is the gender identity of my choosing regardless of laws, precedents, or consequences. June 24th was a large set-back to runaway freedom.
However, June 24th is but a step toward reducing the abortion problem and maybe only a small step. Abortion will continue to pollute the land with blood as noted by God (Genesis 4:10). What is really at stake is the American mindset about people in general: are we the product of random chance or the lucky happenstance of significant mutations as is taught as absolute truth to most all school children? While at the same time too many pulpits are either silent or weak on the opening chapters of Genesis which speak of the plan of God and the doings of God to bring about mankind. Is life a gift from God and does God care how life is handled?
Until schools, churches, courthouses, legislatures, clubs, corps, and all come to give God an acknowledgement and/or a voice, life will be cheap and man the “ruler.” Until a God-sense is achieved, life will continue to be just a blob or mass of tissue and blood and of little consequence (thus, Uvalde) and abortion just the removal of a growth. Until God is noted, heard, and “feared” – He is present and He has a Hell prepared for those in rebellion – adults will continue to demand their rights and power. The battle for life is far from over.
We are very glad for June 24th, but also keenly aware that abortion is still a heart and God issue.
a PK Musing 
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