There is More to Roe Than Abortion

In 50 years, we went from legal to post-birth abortion. That isn't a slippery slope, that's falling off a cliff. To what else should we be paying attention?

The story of Roe v. Wade is more than just a story about abortion.

It is about how, in the relatively short span of fifty years, a culture can completely shift.

We went from legal to safe legal and rare to abortion upon demand to suggestions from elected officials that post birth abortions should be allowed in five short decades. That’s not a slide, that is falling off a cliff.

We should never confuse freedom, which in based on commonly shared values and governing principles, with libertinism, defined as “devoid of most moral or sexual restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behavior sanctified by the larger society.”

Libertinism is rightly described as extreme form of hedonism and as such, puts primary value on sensual or physical pleasures. Libertinism also necessarily requires the rejection of any religious stigma, moral code or social mores that argue against the attainment of such pleasures.

If one needs further evidence of a resurgence of Libertinism, one must look no farther than the progressivism of the Democrat Party. I’ve never seen a group of people so violently opposed to the capital punishment of the worst murderers get so excited about killing babies (the purest and most innocent members of humans).

A few years ago, our local community was struggling with an “anti-bullying” program developed by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT lobbying organization in America. While doing some research, I ran across a situation like ours in which the “education arm” of an LGBTQ group was promoting an “anti-bullying” program of their own.

I found the linked 2015 article about Iowa Safe Schools, a gay advocacy group disguised as an anti-bullying resource, to be equal parts intriguing and disturbing.

This group was teaching Humboldt, Iowa, middle school students about homosexual relationships and anal sex under the watchful eye of government school administrators – and without the knowledge or approval of parents. According to the article in the Daily Caller, when approached with concerns of parents about such an agenda, “Nate Monson, executive director of Iowa Safe Schools, said parents who worry about middle school kids hearing about anal sex with strap-ons and analingus are ‘disgusting.’”

This was the first instance of grooming of which I was aware, and yet at the time, it still seemed to be an isolated situation.

As it turns out, it wasn’t. It was just part of an established pattern for transforming a society.

I am confident my observations are unoriginal, but I have deduced these six laws governing the transition from freedom to libertinism:

In any given progressive-libertine societal system:

1. Deviant minorities will tend to erroneously define the majority’s tolerance of a specific deviancy as acceptance of the entire minority and/or a specific deviancy.

2. Majorities rarely unconditionally accept deviancy, but they do allow it.

3. The fallacious assumption that allowance constitutes acceptance of the entire minority and/or a specific deviancy leads to an equally fallacious assumption that such allowance mandates active celebration of the deviancy by the majority.

4. When a previously forbidden deviancy is allowed, the aggrieved minority will not treat it as with a passive acknowledgement of equality, it will be expressed as overt promotion of that deviancy.

5. Minorities are generally incapable of accepting equality as a contemporary status, they believe reparations and/or retribution for past prohibitions of the deviance must be co-equal with the new “equality”.

6. When the deviant minority is challenged, they exhibit transference of guilt and responsibility by accusing the majority of equal or greater sins for retaining any opposition to the allowed deviancy.

I have watched with interest the fallout from the SCOTUS ruling on same-sex unions and the decision by the Boy Scouts of America to drop all prohibitions of homosexual scout leaders due to the pattern that develops any time a social deviancy is mainstreamed.

While it is true that the existence of homosexuality is a historical fact, it is also a fact that members of this group are a distinct minority, and their behavior has been viewed as a deviant behavior for almost the entirety of the two centuries of America’s existence.

For clarity, I do not use the words “minority”, “deviant” and “deviancy” as pejoratives, rather to describe aspects of society that are numerically small and distinctly different from the prevailing social mores of the majority.

LGBTQ activists have assured that the entertainment industry and government schools have moved quickly from allowance to acceptance to promotion of LGBTQ lifestyles, seeking to mainstream behaviors of an admittedly extremely small minority population. With the SCOTUS decision, the pattern is evident as they seek to do the same with commercial and religious activities.

In 2019, I openly wondered how soon the Boy Scouts will have a Gay Pride badge and what the requirements will be to get it.

Well, a short three years later, Boy Scouts are marching in Pride parades and there IS a Pride Badge, along with other “Pride” related celebratory accessories.

The interesting thing I am noticing is that other in the areas where radical violence was predictable, there has been no marches or protests the size of BLM, ANTIFA or the Pussy Hat marches. The protests that are happening are more of a generally ignorable G7 loon level protest.

This is not what the leftist social media, punditry and pollical classes expected.

It is underwhelming.

The overturning of Roe may well be the greater body of American society saying to deviant minorities:

“We tolerated you - but you went too far. Now we need to step back and see if we made a mistake.”

In the case of Roe and Casey, the answer clearly was “yes”.