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Dear Archon of the East,

"What if happens to be upheld?"

News flash! It's been upheld. Bits at a time, and whole hog. That's essentially what Casey was about.

"Establishing first that abortions after the first trimester are in fact killing life..."

Already been done.

At least scientifically, if not legally.

And for a lot of folks, establishing it legally is all that will count. I can't recount how many times some idiot has told me that abortion should be legal because the Supreme Court made it legal. Well, if the Court were to overturn Roe, then that argument, for all the morons in America, would be vitiated.

The law has teaching power. You talk about natural rights, and the lack of respect for them, but what is amazing is that after 32 years of Roe, our legal regime on abortion, which is as extreme and coercive as any in the world, has NOT stamped out knowledge of the natural law in the United States! After 32 years of legal abortion on demand, somewhere north of 60% of the people STILL believe that abortion should be legally limited to the "exception cases."

And that number is growing!

Overturning Roe will also have the profound cultural effect of knocking out the social underpinnings for the pro-death folks. Most folks who think they live in a good and decent society want to believe that the law is righteous. Thus, they do what mental gymnastics they need to justify Roe, as, if Roe is unjust, then that suggests a pretty huge defect in American society, and a lot of folks don't want to go there.

That effect, the effort to reduce cognitive dissonance caused by Roe, doubles back, with Roe then creating a social legitimacy for legalized abortion on demand that would otherwise not exist. Overturn Roe, and the cognitive dissonance disappears, and the protective effect of Roe disappears, and our society will become even more pro-life.

Roe must go.

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