They went and did it. Six unelected ideologues have hijacked women's rights. That this ethically bankrupt Supreme Court has overturned a human right as well as a woman's right was expected, of course, since an ethically corrupt, democratically unelected president appointed the Court's margin that was willing to defy the rule of 50-year-old law.
Today, the Supreme Court squandered whatever legitimacy it had left. In one transcendently grotesque flash, the Court ruled that its far-right, religionist and misogynistic ideology is free to trump settled law and bulldoze over every American woman's reproductive rights. The Court's Gang of Six — the Injustices Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett and John Roberts — decided that living women are legally subordinate to a once-dead philosophy.
That would be Stephen Douglas' antebellum philosophy. Beginning in 1854, the Illinois senator peddled the inhuman proposition that each state should decide if human slavery was to be permitted. African Americans would have no say; under the political theory of popular sovereignty, the various states would choose whether Blacks were slave or free. God- or Nature-given rights would also have no say.
Today's Supreme Court has ruled likewise. Each state — not the principle of self-evident truths — shall determine if American women are to possess sovereignty over their own bodies. In effect, the Supreme Court has revisited not 1973, but a barbarous proposition of 168 years past. Douglas' contemporary, Chief Justice Roger Taney, of the rights-stripping Dred Scott decision, would be immensely proud of our six Injustices.
The United States is now quite literally ruled by a junta, defined as "a military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force."
Such was the manner of two of this Court's appointments. Senate Republicans vacated by force President Obama's right to appoint, thereby producing Neil Gorsuch, and later rammed through Amy Barrett's nomination under Republicans' previously renounced presidential right. Although Gorsuch and Barrett's benefactor, Trump, ascended presidentially in a legal election, he did not win the 2016 election democratically. He lost, thus rendering his Court-appointing presidency a forced-on-the-electorate calamity.
America's rule of law has been a far-right plaything ever since. Republicans and their High Court demand the rule of law when it suits their cruel ideology, and reject it when not. If the rather consensual narrative of America in brutal decline was ever in question, today's Supreme Court decision ended all doubt.