This is a story that could be true. God help us!
New York has legalized the killing of the unborn up to birth. As all wicked things done by an erstwhile Christian people, its passing is couched in euphemisms, wreathed by comforting platitudes: they say it’s about protecting women’s rights and access to reproductive healthcare in the face of an uncertain political future. Already there are rumblings in other states for similar legislation. Given the propensity of progressives to always push onward, with no limiting principle, and no destination in mind, but addicted to that narcotic feeling of forward velocity, it is a certainty that many states will pass similar laws.
In the twinkling of an eye, the distant and comforting hope that someday we would overturn Roe v Wade, and allow the States to once again enact anti-abortion laws to protect the unborn from slaughter is rendered irrelevant. By the time we have a Supreme Court honest enough to interpret the Constitution and Laws as written, and courageous enough to strike down that most poorly decided case, the States will have already decided that it is legal to kill the unborn up to birth. Thus, devolving abortion laws to the States will accomplish nothing for the unborn but to subject their lives to the accident of their mother’s address.
But not all States will be so callous. Not all will light the sacrificial fires for Moloch.
So, supposing we do someday overturn Roe v Wade, as surely must happen, just as Dredd Scott eventually was overturned, we will have a world where some states are abortionist, and some are abolitionist. Thus will geographic lines be drawn in the already, perhaps irretrievably, fractured culture we are living in. As the culture in each State is amplified and clarified, we could, in a few decades, arrive again at the precipice of civil war. And the trumpeters will sound a new clarion call to rally for the protection of the unborn, and the new abolitionists will answer the call to eradicate from the earth a barbaric and bloody institution.
And then in this culture war we have all been drafted into we will all of us at least—and at last—know in which direction to shoot.