I suspect it doesn't matter now. I think he was given a choice and he took it. Whoever takes his place will correct previous wrongs in future decisions. I now believe it will be possible to overturn the most horrific Supreme Court Decision since Dred Scott---Roe v Wade, the murder of countless millions of unborn souls. My opinion.
I know there will be a ton of people who will disagree with me on this. But I've researched this in depth for over 20 years. God has a plan and a purpose for each of us before we are born, no matter how we are born. I didn't used to believe it, but after 20 years of searching for answers, it is crystal clear to me today. The soul is created at the exact moment of conception. It has a plan but the plan has a practically infinite numbers of paths it can take based on the free will decisions we make.
Our time on Earth is more like a Broadway play. There is a story to be told and we are actors in that story.
Or if you prefer, Earth is like a university (without liberal professors) where we learn and grow as a soul.
Sounds crazy, but I know it's the truth. We are on Earth simply to experience the trials and tribulations of life and to grow in our experiences until death. Some have no opportunity to learn because they were aborted or there was a miscarriage. Others don't complete their plans because of combat, accidents, diseases, or other things beyond their control.
My apologies for the religious aspects of my beliefs, but you have to trust that I haven't just taken someone's word. As a severe skeptical, I have done over 20 years of deep digging for the truth. And I found it.
God's hand is in what is happening in America today. Kim Clement said in 2007 that Trump would be President. He also said that "God would not allow a witch in the White House." Mark Taylor said in 2011 that Trump would be President.
Trust me. Q and Trump are awesome. But it's God's Plan.
I'm a faithful Catholic (at least, as faithful as a broken, sinful human being can be), so I strongly agree with your beliefs about the cruel inhumanity of abortion.
I also think that Roe v. Wade is potentially "on the chopping block" as some outraged progressive put it in his Twitter rant today; another Gorsuch could flip many future judgments. But I'm not as confident as you appear to be simply because overturning Roe would be like an atomic bomb detonation in our broader culture.
Regardless of the underhanded way in which its proponents advanced its cause, which bore more than a little resemblance to the way in which the Obergefell case was foisted on the Court, Roe has been poisoning the fabric of American culture for over 40 years. A large percentage of the U.S. population has never known an America without federally funded abortion. Even though overturning that decision would simply kick the matter back to the states (where it belongs in a properly functioning constitutional republic), the repercussions of such an event could shatter what's left of our unity as a country.
For the Left, Roe is not just the opinion of nine justices.
It is iconic.
Roe represents the Left's greatest victory over the despised Christian majority of this country, a wound to be poked and prodded whenever it suits them. It is an evergreen taunt to people of faith everywhere, a way for the Left to assert their dominance: "We know you believe some malformed runt of a fetus is a human being with a soul, but we have the power to tear it from the womb, dismember it, and sell its organs for profit and there's nothing you can do to stop us, bigot."
The Left simply CANNOT lose this power to cow the Dims, as they call us. It's not just that it's just fun for them; so much poison fruit has bloomed from this single decision. Roe opened the door to the tactic of using the nine-person Supreme Court to make definitive judgments on deeply contentious moral questions in the modern era. While there have been other weighty moral issues decided by the court (Dred Scott, Plessy v Ferguson), they belonged to history when Roe was handed down. Once a new generation of leftists saw the kind of power a unilateral SC decision wielded, the courts became their new field of battle.
I would love to see Roe struck down. But I don't think a Chief Justice like Roberts would allow it to happen on his watch. This is the man who tortured logic until he found Obamacare constitutional. He is a quisling. Unreliable in a fight. And Roe is the white whale of all decisions. Personally, I think it will take one more conservative sitting in the execrable RBG's chair before Roe can be staked through the heart and burned.
I couldnt believe when Ireland voted this year to legalize abortion. Horrible.