The US Supreme Court's rulings on abortion and guns could unleash a firestorm

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My latest for ⁦@TheNationalNews⁩ looks at recent horrors from the SCOTUS Inquisition dividing Americans:
Where one side sees health care, the other sees homicide. One side sees hypocrisy, the other honor. One side sees faith, the other fanaticism.
Pro-choice demonstrators participate in a march and rally in Atlanta, Georgia, one day after the US Supreme Court's decision. EPA
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The US Supreme Court's rulings on abortion and guns could unleash a firestorm
The decisions are tantamount to pouring petrol over political, religious and racial brushfires
10:43 AM · Jun 26, 2022

https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2022/06/26/the-us-supreme-courts-rulings-on-abortion-and-guns-could-unleash-a-firestorm/


Two massive earthquakes rocked the US last week. Sweeping rulings by the Supreme Court on guns and abortion widened already yawning crevices along two great national fault-lines: race and religion.

The abortion ruling, although no surprise, was still a shocking blow to American women. On Friday morning at 9:59, and for 50 years before that, they had the right to decide whether to give birth. By 10:01, that freedom vanished.

The Court had never before eliminated an individual constitutional right and handed the power to state governments. About half will severely restrict or virtually eliminate reproductive freedom.

But the ruling goes much further, eliminating the constitutional right to privacy. Chief Justice John Roberts failed to secure a compromise to save it. Now basic rights such as contraception and marriage equality have no established constitutional basis.

Mr Roberts is a political conservative, not a religious extremist. So, the new majority of hardline Catholic judges on his bench breezily ignores him while imposing its fundamentalist agenda on constitutional law, now eyeing those "sinful" privacy rights.

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