Does wisdom really arrive at the end?

I thought the Civil War was all in the past, but it seems that people are again digging into their opposing positions on critical social issues.

While some folks are still trying to figure out the assault on the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, 2021, others are wondering why so many people have opted to threaten Supreme Court justices over a recent court decision.

Is democracy beginning to ebb away from freedom’s shore? Or is it the mere nature of people to snarl and protest when things in life just don’t go their way?

Some folks still believe that wisdom will eventually show up, but often it seems a tad slow in arriving.

And in the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 decision on abortion, I’m wondering if there is any perfect "wisdom" to be had.

The current opinion of the court by a one-vote majority suggests that state legislatures are best suited to resolve this abortion issue and not the Supreme Court.

One can almost visualize how this decision may evolve.

In conservative states, a decision in that vein will most likely restrict abortion access while in more liberal states there will be more permissive policies in the opposite direction.

Perhaps one might consider the possible future issue of abortion policies in a liberal California for instance while comparing those to a similar abortion law in conservative Mississippi. You can almost imagine those extremes which may materialize by crossing a state’s boundary lines to maybe include restricting abortion altogether.

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Maybe we should begin to think about separating the states by other issues too.

Perhaps we can have two Americas?

There will be a hodgepodge of abortion laws, some different, but acceptable by individual states and now sanctioned by the Supreme Court and government.

I was just reflecting on another situation that divided the country and caused a great upheaval before wisdom showed up to resolve an issue that caused so much conflict. Do you remember?

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Actually, back before the Civil War, there were 19 free states and 15 slave states. The states clearly had differing opinions then too.

I suspect some states will take a rather restrictive approach while others a more liberal one.

Many women are quite naturally opposed to the departure from Roe v. Wade which provided, direction and guidelines for abortion access throughout the land. Many religious folks are delighted by the court’s position because they have always supported a pro-life position anyway.

Voters, at the end of the day, will determine their state’s abortion fate at the voting booth.

But many protesters taking to the streets now believe a woman’s body belongs to the woman for her own decision making and not a politician or the government.

The issue of abortion is similar to that proverbial can that is kicked down the road never to rest at any one particular place. And it will continue to be a sharp thorn in the White House’s rose garden of life.

And what of men who serve as co-creators but share little responsibility for the unplanned child?

Men serve as a primary partner in the situation and then conveniently leave the parlor when the need for responsibility and maturity is required thus leaving the woman in a desperate and lonely position.

Birth control is never considered a good alternative for some couples and abortion then becomes a necessary dilemma to correct a mistake; perhaps a little prevention could go a long way to solving a problem.

Violent criminal assaults, rape, incest and defective genetic embryos are not much considered either by those opposing abortion critics.

Many actors in this movie have some very difficult roles to play.

The states, I suspect, will create even more confusion as they map out their differing strategies.

Perhaps the federal government will respond for consistency's purpose.

Has wisdom really arrived yet?

The recent 5-4 Supreme Court abortion decision and human behavior suggests not.

Lloyd "Pete" Waters is a Sharpsburg resident who writes for The Herald-Mail.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: America divided by politics, cultures