Ragged Robes. (F)laws of Man.

Malebolge

Inferno xviii

When courts get decisions wrong, time can be a hideous companion. The time it takes, that is, until an unjust decision is reversed or nullified.

The suffering visited upon a nation and its people by a court can be a sobering reminder that, without the grace of God to elevate minds to the Truth, evil of a magnitude hardly imaginable can spread like wildfire to practically consume a nation. An unjust decision by a court can poison the minds of an entire nation and render that nation insensitive to the Truth, and because the Truth cannot then be seen nor followed, people are dehumanized and destroyed on an unimaginable scale. One only has to look at the former Soviet Union at its height, that is, at the depth of its depravity to find an example of man's capacity for extreme violence. Socialism, communism and fascism are idolatrous systems which crush the human spirit and consume millions of lives to fuel their power to prop up themselves.

The Eighth Circle of Hell: Bolgia Eight: In this trench, the souls of Deceivers who gave false or corrupted advice to others for personal benefit are punished. They are constantly ablaze, appearing as nothing so much as living, speaking tongues of flame.

Woe to those who lead others astray!

What was once a hill of injustice has become, since the Supreme Court of the United States of America decided that narrow self interest trumps innocent life, a mountain, an entire mountain range. Or, perhaps a more fitting metaphor might be that a fetid ditch has become a Death Valley. God has given those committing atrocities in the name of "choice", those complicit with the culture of death enabled by a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, opportunities obvious and plentiful to repent and to end their attacks on the innocent. Many, however, are willfully deaf to the call to repent. Thus, because of their obstinacy, they may very well end up in one of the lower circles of hell for ignoring the humanness of the unborn.

God, of course, always and immediately hears the cry of the poor. God answers injustice in His time, and His answer is complete in every way, and completely just. God knows our intentions, our motivations.

Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid... .—Collect for Purity, Divine Worship: the Missal

No excuse can deter God from enacting justice on behalf of the innocent. God raises up witnesses to His truth, to persuade (in charity) transgressors that they must turn from sin and embrace His will. A failure to acknowledge God's legitimate prophets, i.e., those who clearly represent justice and mercy, is to ignore God's will.

Courting Disaster

Every time a new Justice of the Court is nominated for the Court, the confirmation process (one way or the other) exposes the division between the righteous and the unrighteous. That is, the moral divide is clearly seen between those capable of identifying and honouring the humanness of the unborn child from conception, i.e., the righteous, and those, i.e., the unrighteous, who will not acknowledge and defend the humanness of the unborn human being.

Status quo. The unrighteous are desperately clinging to a previous Court's bad decision which began with a deception, a deception which has become the foundation for genocide and a host of other evils made possible because a nation abandoned the Truth for falsehood (convenience, hedonism).

By God's grace, the woman at the centre of the deception which led to the devastation described above, before her death, came to be one of the greatest allies in the struggle to overturn the menace which has enabled the destruction of millions of innocent lives. The Court has yet to repent of its evil, but Norma McCorvey, may she rest in peace, by her conversion to the Truth, gave witness to the hope that man's injustice can be undone. May the Court hasten to help a nation overcome the diabolical consequences of its past decision.

Like the slave not seen as a human being because of his skin colour, because he didn't/doesn't fit the definition of human being according to the narrative imposed by the powerful and entitled, the unborn child awaits an audience that will unequivocally recognize the unborn child's humanness, an audience that will protect the sacredness of human life from conception to natural end.

SUPREME INJUSTICE

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896. It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality – a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal". This legitimized the many state laws re-establishing racial segregation that had been passed in the American South after the end of the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877).

Plessy is widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history. Despite its infamy, the decision itself has never been explicitly overruled. However, a series of subsequent decisions—beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954—have severely weakened it to the point that it is usually considered to have been de facto overruled.

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Dred Scott (c. 1799 – September 17, 1858) was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and their two daughters in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott case." Scott claimed that he and his wife should be granted their freedom because they had lived in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory for four years, where slavery was illegal.

The United States Supreme Court decided 7–2 against Scott, finding that neither he nor any other person of African ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States, and therefore Scott could not bring suit in federal court under diversity of citizenship rules. Moreover, Scott's temporary residence outside Missouri did not bring about his emancipation under the Missouri Compromise, which the court ruled unconstitutional as it would "improperly deprive Scott's owner of his legal property". (Apparently, a group of enlightened judges were incapable of defending the simple fact that human beings are not things to be bought and sold.)

While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this decision, it aroused public outrage, deepened sectional tensions between the northern and southern states, and hastened the eventual explosion of their differences into the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the post-Civil War Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments—nullified the decision.

—Wikipedia

René Girard has the last word.

The Antichrist boasts of bringing to human beings the peace and tolerance that Christianity promised but (according to the Antichrist) has failed to deliver. Actually, what the radicalization of contemporary victimology produces is a return to all sorts of pagan practices: abortion, euthanasia, sexual undifferentiation, Roman circus games galore... .―René Girard, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning.


The Real Reason to Criticize Roe, by  Daniel K. Williams
The Court's Abortion Jurisprudence: An Analysis of Roe and Related Cases
Little-Known Facts about Roe v. Wade, by Alexandra DeSanctis
Roe v. Wade: No Justification in History, Law, or Logic, by Horan, Dennis J; Grant, Edward R.; and Cunningham, Paige C., eds.