Dear Reader,
I’m sending this email to my paid subscribers only tonight with two thoughts in mind:
First, due to trying to take advantage of some amazing weather as well as my daughter Katie’s quest to camp this weekend, I’m going to be a day late with this month’s book review of Greg Johnson’s Still Time to Care. If all goes well, I plan to get the review out to you late afternoon/early evening on Sunday. In the meantime, you can pray that we find a campsite for Saturday night.
Second, and as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the Supreme Court repealed the Roe vs. Wade ruling that has haunted our country for the past 49 years. If you’ve been with me in the past six months, you know my heart on the matter as I’ve written and recorded a podcast on the topic (both of which you have access to as paid subscribers).
After monitoring the conversation swirling around social media today, I put together and posted a collection of random observations several people have since communicated were helpful. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you may have seen them already, but if not, I thought I’d send them out here to help navigate the noise and better understand the meaning of this monumental day. My observations:
Abortion has never been a Constitutional right; the Supreme Court did not “take anything away,” other than a poor legal interpretation that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President Joe Biden once deemed badly reasoned and flawed.
Abortion has never been “healthcare” for women and certainly not for the human babies aborted.
We've sacrificed 63 million babies in the past 49 years. 63 million people is the equivalent of just over seven New York Cities.
It appears that we as a society have rediscovered what a woman is and are now more than willing to use that nomenclature.
Saying the Court is “illegitimate” is no different than Trump saying the election was "rigged." AOC leading her populist protest is the same "insurrectionist" behavior Trump is being accused of.
Attorney General Merrick Garland's published statement against the Court's decision could (and should) be grounds for his removal as head of the U.S. Justice Department. The Supreme Court has often invoked the rule that a public official has no standing to attack the constitutionality of legislation which he is charged with enforcing.
The vast (and I mean vast) majority of women getting abortions are doing so for convenience rather than medical or rape reasons. And no, despite Michelle Obama’s attempt to lay the blame for “ruining a young girl’s hopes and dreams” on a conceived child, carrying the child to term does not have to result in the fulfillment of that doomsday fear.
As two “Catholics” at the pinnacle of leadership of the U.S. government, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi have given the most aggressive responses as anyone to the Court's decision. They are promising to work around the Court's decision and ensure the return to murdering children. Enough is enough; they should be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
For those calling for civic penalties for biological fathers who abandon pregnant women, your terms are acceptable (though don't forget that marriage is still the initial safeguard that is best entered into before sex and conception).
Protesting outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices is still technically illegal per Title 18, Section 1507 of the U.S. Code. It will be interesting to see how many arrests get made this evening for what promises to be a “night of rage” that is “mostly peaceful.”
Those saying that “now the work of the Church begins” is a slap in the face to those who have engaged in the work of protecting life and tending to mothers for decades, centuries, and millennia. Yes, there is and will always be more to do, but Christ's Church has been doing it from the beginning.
As I would ask you to, I am praying that we can get through tonight, these next days, weeks, and months, and that much good for all involved will come from this decision. May God continue to have mercy on our nation, and may blessing come as a result of the Supreme Court's actions today.
Thanks for reading, and have a good weekend!
Craig
PS: If you have thoughts of your own you’d like to pass my way, feel free to email me.