Just when I thought the world could not get any crazier, the SCOTUS released their Roe vs. Wade opinion for real (no doubt any feeble efforts to locate the previous leaker will cease, as though they ever began). As expected, our sheeple went totally off the rails, ranting and raving, with many young girls (I guess they are girls) baring their teeth and snarling about their rights to abortions, even if they aren’t pregnant. Again, I have to ponder why, if they are planning so far ahead, that they don’t plan to employ birth control of some sort as a preventative measure. If I went marching around with signs declaring my right to kill somebody, I am pretty sure I would end up in jail or the nearest mental health facility, but in our present world it depends on who you are and how righteous you are. And in the meantime, they can take out their frustrations by vandalizing and destroying the properties of organizations that want to help the meek and deluded who actually want to have and keep their babies, as in the recent case of the Longmont ministry. How righteous is that?

I can’t totally fault some people for getting excited, since the media has whipped the gullible into a frenzy by having the national news announcing every hour on the hour that “There will be 31 million people affected by this ruling who live in states that will ban abortions.” Really? Thirty-one million people who need and won’t be able to get abortions? I am not sure how the media is doing the math or what they are smoking, but could these stats possibly not be factual? Or are they counting all men, women, children, dogs, cats and parakeets?

There are many reasons for abortion that are valid, but until recently people didn’t plan them ahead of time — maybe the clinics can issue certificates that say “good for ___abortions” and that will calm some of these folks down a little. Worst case scenario, they can have raffles and drawings and the proceeds go to provide more procedures.

This violence and vandalism and self-righteousness make a really good case for abortion but not in the way the hypocritical protesters might think. Too bad it is years too late for the likely cases I have seen on the news recently. But when all else fails and you feel confused or down, just recite the mantra “The right is wrong and the left is right” and you will be fine.

Geraldine Russell

Colorado Springs