The Roe leak: The Cause before the Republic

Vincent J. Curtis

4 May 22

RE: The leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade

The difference between a constitutional monarchy and a republic is that a republic has nothing to hold itself together except respect for its institutions.  Fraudulent elections undermine respect for the republic.  A court system that decides cases on the basis of politics or craven fear undermines respect for the republic’s institutions.  That’s why Benjamin Franklin said that the new constitution would give America a republic, “if you can keep it.”

The advent of progressivism made the cause more important than the institutions that stood in the way of achieving the objective.  If you could bring Utopia here on earth, ask yourself, what lie would you not tell, what crime would you not commit to bring that Utopia about?  The end justifies the means, even if those means undermined respect for the republic’s institutions.

Progressives of the day of Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger were racists and eugenicists.  Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, promoted abortion in the black ghettos to prevent American society from being contaminated with an inferior race.  Wilson thought the U.S. constitution was obsolete because it too much got in his way.

Roe was a triumph for progressivism, more so given the shabbiness of its rationale. No matter, the sacrament of abortion was sanctified by the courts as a constitutional right.  The fight to preserve Roe poisoned American politics for fifty years, and the fraudulent constitutional right it established may now end.  The release of the draft opinion was a transparent attempt to incite threats of violence against the Justices who will end it. 

Abortion won’t end, just the “constitutional right” to it.  Abortion would be subject to law-making and regulations of the States as it was before Roe, and abortion advocates will actually have to grub for votes to enact their preferences into law.

The leaking of the document committed the following crimes: obstruction of justice, embezzlement of government records, and fraud on the United States.  Given the importance of Roe, it is essential to the respect of the U.S. Supreme Court that the perp be caught and punished appropriately.  A no vote should switch to aye in protest of the crime.

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