It is highly doubtful that I am insane, since unlike large numbers of full-time housewives and mothers, I have supported myself over a very long adult life and still do, mostly by working and sometimes by earning and using merit grants for grad school and research. I do not exhibit any of the behavior associated with insanity (see, e.g.,
Symptoms of Insanity - RightDiagnosis.com. I have no history of mental illness or alcohol or drug abuse, no aggression, emotional lability, no especially increased energy, elevated mood, suspicious mood, thoughts of conspiracy, hallucination, or delusions. I am quite capable of using logic that is not circular, have not exhibited here, am capable of referring to respected philosophical works that relate to my perspective, such as Thomson's A Defense of Abortion and McDonagh's Breaking the Abortion Deadlock. It is not a symptom of insanity to suspect that a person who writes in a way that seems rather hostile to pro-choice posters is actually against abortion and probably supports making abortion illegal.
I did not pray to the Supreme Court. I merely prayed in gratitude to the God that had answered my prayer not to be pregnant by rape. And with my gratitude, I also made a very long case on behalf of other American women, asking, even demanding that, if God and Christ could not or would not stop all rape of women and girls by men and boys in this nation, they would see to it that no woman or girl in the US would ever again have to go through what I did, and would see to it that they had the right to choose to get unpregnant in a variety of situations. I went into great detail. I made this prayer every night, without exception. Unbeknownst to me, within about five days after I first made that prayer, a lawyer who was a Methodist minister's daughter, turned to her best friend and said, "Let's challenge Texas abortion law." That was in Texas, thousands of miles from where I was, in a Chicago suburb. They began to plan the case that would be Roe v Wade. I knew nothing of that, and just kept saying my prayer for women and girls in the US every night. Remarkably, Roe v Wade met every condition I detailed while still managing to keep some limits.
I'm not Catholic and don't believe in church intermediaries. I'm a Protestant who believes that God hears the prayers of the righteous. But God also hears some other prayers, notably, those who have been subject to a serious injustice, the blind, the captives, them that are bruised. That is compensatory justice, a common concept in Protestant Christianity. I pray to God, whom I identify with the Creator that endows all men, meaning mankind and including women, with certain inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence that gave rise to the United States. God inspires another woman in a suitable Christian sect, who apparently also identified God with that Creator. She does her inspired thing and takes her case up the courts to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is not a mere elected legislature. Supreme Court justices sit as the final arbiters of what laws are constitutional in the United States for as long as they want to, and they are all citizens, and apparently they, too, were responsive to the Creator noted in the DoI. Weddington, the Methodist minister's daughter, was supported by the whole pro-choice movement of her time, which was filled with evangelical Christians and Methodists, and had leaders from among the latter. She won her case fair and square before them, and was just as shocked as anyone else that their decision was as liberal as it was, given that most of the SC justices had been appointed by Republicans.
You can think it's insane to believe that God answered the prayer of that pitiful but brave and loving rape victim, who has long since been transformed into a survivor, but I do not. That's how God often works in my brand of Protestant Christianity, hearing and then inspiring and moving the right people in the right paths to offer the right answer.
Of course God is bigger than the Supreme Court. God is bigger than Christianity. God is infinite. But of all the gifts God gives, none is greater to me than those which are demonstrated when the Spirit of the Lord is upon someone, because "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," and that Spirit "preaches deliverance to the captives" and "sets at liberty them that are bruised."
And it doesn't matter that "most women are just fine with being pregnant" because some women are not. And therefore human beings do not have the right to use physical or chemical force or the force of human law to force women to continue pregnancies that those women consider horrible burdens, just because those human beings covet the contents of those women's sex organs and interpret them to be something that they are not in the sight of truth. And FYI, I think that anyone who would ignore the fact that some women are not fine with being pregnant, and would minimize and trivialize their experience as equal persons, is really bizarre and really evidence of hatred of women for wanting to have their personhood recognized. I have been grateful every day of my life that I was not pregnant by rape, and I know of women who were pregnant by rape and are still grateful every day that abortion was a legally available choice for them. We are all different.
