The supreme court, earlier today

Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health could have been just another workaday dispute, but it led to the biggest supreme court ruling for many years. The overturning of Roe v Wade, a ruling upheld for 49 years, means the decision of whether to make abortion legal or illegal devolves to the states rather than central government. This makes it a double win, it would seem.

Obviously it is a victory for 'pro-lifers'. Whether for religious reasons or based on another moral system, those who believe that abortion should be a last resort, and limited to those who have been rape or incest victims, or where a serious birth defect has been detected.

But it is also a victory for proponents of small government. That said, the Venn diagram for these two groups would show a pretty large overlap, if not a complete overlay. Central government and its increasing power is one of the real 'challenges'. we hear so much about, only the challenge is not to the governments but to the people they govern. Ronald Reagan famously said that the most frightening nine words in the language were, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'.

The reactions were all-too-predictable. Pro-lifers are overjoyed, and showed their approval in the usual decent, sober, reasonable way. Pro-abortionists acted like people who should be strait-jacketed, medicated, and thrown into a rubber room.

What is it with the Left? They live in a state of constant rage, waiting only for something to trigger it and take it to the next incandescent level. And it doesn't matter what the current issue is. Transgenderism. Gun laws. Roe v Wade. Just make these people aware of it, and that it hasn't gone their way, and stand back. You have just thrown a lit match into a box of fireworks. It is reminiscent of the famous line from the early Brando movie The Wild One.

"What are you rebelling against, Johnny?"

"Waddya got?"

In all the fire and fury of social media debate, all the TV punditry and op-ed pieces, and the demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, there is one aspect of the whole abortion debate that has not been stressed. Why are people not educated to realise that abortion is not just another form of contraception, just along the shelf from the condoms these people didn't use, or like the birth-control pill, convenient, there when you want it, and very much in keeping with the modern disposable consumer lifestyle?

There have been threats of violence, as you would expect, and it could be only a matter of time before a judge is killed. Antifa are a serious organization, organized and extremely violent. They have shown this often, and the truly frightening thing is that the police have never tried to stop them in any meaningful sense.

America's civili war 2.0 is hotting up.