Ross: Supreme Court rules against pro-life challenge, so what’s next for the Christian Nationalists?
Jun 17, 2024, 6:32 AM

Demonstrators participate in a abortion-rights rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices of the court hear oral arguments in the case of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images)
(Photo: Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images)
The Supreme Court last week unanimously turned down the pro-life challenge to the FDA鈥檚 decision to make Mifepristone widely available for the purpose of ending a pregnancy. The court ruled the pro-life plaintiffs who sued had no business complaining about a pill they had never used — and that they had no business trying to challenge the FDA鈥檚 regulation of others.
That a conservative court would rule this way was a shock to the pro-life movement, which is even now trying to decide what the next reproductive crusade should be. I was thinking this would be a good time to focus on making sure all children are well-fed, have comprehensive medical coverage and can have affordable daycare.
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But it seems to be moving towards some kind of Christian Nationalism, going into the states to get tougher abortion restrictions. quoted the president of a group called “Students for Life” lamenting that many young women no longer want to have children at all, suggesting it鈥檚 because their parents weren鈥檛 religious and didn鈥檛 take their kids to church.
Personally, I think it could also be that young women today know that a positive pregnancy test can instantly make them subject to laws based on religious beliefs they do not share.
But it raises an interesting prospect: If the Christian nationalists are serious about a return to Bible-based values, will they also bring back the rules that used to apply to men?聽聽
Being fruitful and multiplying was job No. 1 in the Old Testament, and God held males responsible for doing their part.
Genesis 38 verses 9 and 10聽 鈥 this is a little delicate, so I won鈥檛 quote it 鈥 but let鈥檚 just say it was considered a serious sin for a man to “misfire” in any way. In fact, God is on record as summarily severing the brain-body connection of a man named Onan who did just that. Could this be the next reproductive frontier? Could men be next?
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The Supreme Court drew a line last week, saying that just because you hold a sincere moral belief doesn鈥檛 allow you to get all up in other peoples鈥 business. But the zealots are undeterred. They want to bring us back to a time when what happened in your bed was everybody鈥檚 business.
I won鈥檛 try to predict what might happen, but it鈥檚 something to keep in mind as you鈥檙e trying to decide which flag to raise over your beach house.
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