Out, Damned Leak!

OK, so the big story of yesterday is the leak of an apparent early draft of the upcoming Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturns Roe v. Wade. It seems to suggest an upcoming 5-3 decision in favor of returned abortion law to the states with Chief Justice Roberts undecided.

Hey, liberals! Overturning Roe v. Wade does not mean the end of abortion! It means the end of the Supreme Court imposing abortion law on the states. That's why the governors of every blue state today in the nation put out Twitter advertisements for women to move to their states forthwith.

If you are interested in my views on abortion, try my blog post "The World After Roe v. Wade" published a little after the Supreme Court heard arguments last December. It proposes the idea that abortion is experienced differently by different kinds of women. Thus educated women think differently than Commoner women think differently than lower-class women. Who knew?

And I think that the law should reflect that different people have different views on the question of abortion, and that following lefty Jürgen Habermas, we should understand the differences and should work together and try to come to agreement in the Lebenswelt that is the United States of America. My main suggestion is that we should make abortion legal but shameful -- and especially shameful for the would-be father that proposes that the would-be mother "get rid of it."

But my main point here today is that I doubt if the "leak" was really a leak, in the sense of a rogue Supreme Court clerk sneaking the draft out of the Supreme Court in the dead of night.

No, my guess is that this is a planned ambush. Otherwise how come Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) were ready with a joint statement moments after the release of the "leak." Remember, Pelosi just got back from an exhausting trip to Ukraine. How come all the blue state governors were ready with beautifully designed tweets telling women that they are welcome in their states. Etc.

So, what happens next? I see that the Supreme Court is going to investigate the leak. Because this is Very Serious.

And I tell you what I think. I think it is time for Chief Justice Roberts to grow a pair. Up to now, Roberts has been very careful to avoid inflaming the left, on the view I assume, that unless he compromises with the left they will burn the whole place down. And that would not be good.

But I would say that this flagrant breach of trust gives Chief Justice Roberts the golden opportunity to take the high road, to make a speech before the world, and say that in order to protect the reputation, the sanctity, the honor, of the Supreme Court he is honor bound to vote with the majority and send a message to all would-be leakers that it ain't gonna work, that violating the sacred priestly protocols of the Supreme Court is not going to bully principled justices on the Supreme Court. Otherwise this leak is the first step on the road to injustice and Armageddon. In fact low-rent stuff like that will rebound on the low-lifers. So there.

Are you up for this, Justice Roberts?

And another thing. In the past, liberals would have used a Supreme Court decision like this to enrage their supporters and get them out to the polls on Election Day. But, in another proof of God's existence, this is probably not the best year to do this, because the vast majority of women are more directly concerned with rising prices for food and daily necessities than the more abstract question of abortion.

Also, most women believe in strong limits on abortion. Except for liberal educated women. That's because most women experience motherhood as the central meaning of life, while liberal women experience creativity and career as the meaning of life.

That's my opinion. Your mileage may vary.