I’ll make this one brief.
It was only to be expected that the leaked draft decision on Roe v. Wade would send the pro-abortion mob into a three-foot hover. It was also to be expected that the mob’s outrage would focus on the Catholic Church. The five Supreme Court justices who’ve apparently decided to reverse Roe are all Catholic, so naturally they’re being reviled as “Catholic extremists” who presumably are acting at the behest of the Pope. Therefore they and their families are fair game, as the saying goes, and thug tactics are not only permitted but encouraged.
The is not only a vile and vicious slander, but a prize piece of stupidity.
For one thing it is—or it ought to be—obvious that threats and intimidation from the pro-abortion mob will have an effect precisely opposed to the mob’s desired outcome. None of the five justices known to be in favor of reversing Roe are going to cave to that kind of pressure. To do so would inflict grievous and probably irreparable hard on the Supreme Court as an institution.
Then there’s the little matter of public relations. I doubt that defacing Catholic churches with ugly graffiti is going to move the needle in the direction of the pro-abortion position. But that’s already happened in Denver and we can probably expect it to happen elsewhere. I fervently hope that the promised nationwide pro-abortion demonstrations at Catholic churches tomorrow—Mothers Day, ironically—will remain civil. But I’m not counting on it. And if things get menacing or violent, that’ll be on the Catholic-hating activists who play so prominent a role in the pro-abortion movement.
The self-righteousness of progressivism is never a pretty sight and in this case egregiously ugly: a claim on the moral high ground based on the most extreme, one might even say fundamentalist, conception of abortion rights. And when the anti-Catholic bigotry of pro-abortion activists is added, the picture thus limned makes me positively nauseous.