Womyn Look Here: Dobbs. But Not Here: Biden DOEDU Effectively Removes Women from Title IX
As the Regulation of Abortion Moves to the States Biden Publishes Erasure of Federal Definition of "Woman"
This is the perfect month to launch GreyRock because those who seek to control and weaken the U.S. continue to increase the velocity of chaos via public policy riots. The same day the Supreme Court of the United States of America (SCOTUS) overturns Roe v. Wade, the Biden Department of Education erases women and girls from landmark Title IX laws with a published rulemaking adding a key definition:
“Discrimination on the basis of sex includes discrimination on the basis of sex stereotypes, sex-related characteristics (including intersex traits), pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
Conservative and progressive women, and every woman in between are torn from policy volatility. Add the intentionally destructive mainstream media narratives of war, COVID, economic turmoil and increasingly biased coverage of Roe fallout and Title IX changes means the stress from civic life is higher than ever. Biden timing the rulemaking to overwrite Trump policy, under cover of yet another Trump generated crisis is the only way Democrats can seem to govern- still Trump obsessed.
CRITICAL THEORY IN ACTION
A great example of critical theory in action is destroying Title IX by adding “sexual orientation, and gender identity” not to mention “pregnancy or related conditions” referring to men stating they are in some imagined form of male pregnancy. It is as utterly ridiculous to many as it is offensive to women who actually are pregnant. Furthermore, this policy change basically makes it sexual harassment to even discuss issues like male pregnancy, or a man stating they are a woman. This is the perfect example of how critical theory seeks to destroy democracy and capitalism by driving unending turmoil to the level it erodes the structure and function of civil society completely.
The Supreme Court is part of the foundation of American civil society and governance. It doesn’t rule on whether an issue is right or wrong. SCOTUS considers decisions in a framework based on precedent, support from U.S. history, tradition and culture, the rule of law and above all, the Constitution of the United States of America. The Court used those lenses to finally over-turn a legally weak Roe decision, which many legal scholars on the left and right felt was inevitable.
ABORTION HIGHLY REGULATED OR CRIMINALIZED SINCE 1800's
In the U.S. it was the American Medical Association which lobbied in the mid 1800’s to criminalize abortions unless in the rare case a physician judged the procedure was necessary. Some argue this was an attack on midwives. Most states criminalized abortions for most of the last two centuries based on the tradition going back hundreds of years in English common law. The same exceptions have generally been around as long including life of the mother, rape or incest.
Roe has been criticized for the illusory elevation of abortion as a fundamental right. There is no mention of abortion in the Constitution. The 1973 decision leveraged the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to develop the claim that a woman has a “right to privacy” related to getting an abortion. Even many legal scholars on the left have noted Roe’s loose Constitutional grounding; scholars on the right argue it does not exist.
RBG HAS SPOKEN
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG), a leading women’s rights advocate stated, “Roe isn’t really about the woman’s choice, is it? It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice…it wasn’t woman-centered, it was physician-centered.” Roe weakly made the right to privacy the pivotal concept. And then added the confounding thought on the “viability” of the baby vs. the woman’s “right” vs. state interest. Such a monumental and complex decision on such weak opinion left, RBG noted, Roe v. Wade open to challenge. The inevitable happened last week.
WHAT IS ROE v. WADE ACTUALLY ABOUT?
Roe v. Wade was about whether Texas could regulate abortions even more strictly by deepening the criminalization of abortion through statute, which was common (for hundreds of years) before 1973. The question was how far a state could regulate abortion and what was the state’s interest in the health of a pregnant woman. The decision got into the state interest in the fetus or potential life that results through pregnancy. Some argue life begins at conception, Roe added viability with a trimester system and others argue after delivery. Ironically, the political framing of the issue “pro-life” vs “pro-choice” is almost entirely irrelevant to the legal arguments in the case.
In the majority decision by Justice Blackmun, the Supreme Court “disagreed with Roe’s assertion of an absolute right to terminate pregnancy in any way and at any time and attempted to balance a woman’s right of privacy with a state’s interest in regulating abortion.” These words state that a woman does not have the right to “choose” but can only follow the state’s regulation or a court's decision1.
What!? RBG is nodding her head right now at the point. Roe is bad opinion and ultimately undermines the movement started to create an industry now worth $3 Billion annually to basically only 3 organizations. They are led by Planned Parenthood which in 2021 had $1.3 Billion in revenue. Human rights? Women’s Rights? State Interest? Fetal Rights? Eh. $3 Billion at stake? The industry pulls the strings and is now declaring political Armageddon.
REGULATION OF ABORTION IS A STATE ISSUE- ALWAYS HAS BEEN
The regulation of abortion remains a state issue is all that happens if Roe v. Wade is overruled. Can we not all agree on the recent massive failures of federal government decision-making? When you get Leviathan to endorse your activity beware, it also takes complete control of it.
Getting directly involved in your local and state governments is the best way to advocate for yourself and others you support. Even if you aren’t a fan of politics, there are thousands of fire district, hospital district and school district boards which need your help and where you can influence local policy that is one of the most powerful ways to ultimately impact our nation.
GREYROCK: ABORTION & GENDER IDENTITY
Two of the most emotionally charged issues of our time are a challenge for the GreyRock strategy- but also the perfect opportunity. Please respond to the pro abortionists and gender identity proponents without emotion. Just state the facts from the history of these issues we know to be clear and then disengage. Better yet, for the most ardent pro-abortionists, I would not engage at all.
The more aggressive an activist is, the more likely they are paid agitators. They are not hired to support an issue- they are hired to make us all miserable to the point of collapse. Do not engage. I’ve been entirely avoiding mainstream news coverage of radical leftists literally losing their minds in protest. The image our enemies want to see from the United States is irreversible conflict- do not contribute any of your energy to their effort.
The left without conflict must stand on the merits of their argument, which is why they so ardently seek conflict and reasonable people, we, do not.