When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, promised that the City would be a “sanctuary” for women who want to get an abortion.
But “pro-choice” pregnant women who want an abortion might not want to rush to Chicago just yet.
They might wind up as dead as their unborn children.
For while Lightoot was ranting about SCOTUS, the city’s criminals were revving up for big weekend of mayhem and murder. They celebrated Independence Day with 72 shootings, 10 of which were fatal
The latest weekend gunplay brought homicides this year to 322.
Bigger Toll Than Last Year
The death toll this year was lower than last year’s, when Chicago’s patriot criminals left 19 dead and more than 100 shot.
Still, the city’s gun-toting thugs made themselves heard. Triggers were pulled. The lead flew. People died.
One bullet hit a 10-year-old in his bedroom.
“At least 10 people were killed and 62 others were wounded by gunfire over the Fourth of July weekend in Chicago,” the city’s Sun-Times reported:
Twelve of the wounded were shot in three attacks on the West and South sides: Four people in West Garfield Park Friday evening, five men in Parkway Gardens on the South Side early Monday, and three people in Woodlawn early Tuesday.
At least 16 other people were shot, two fatally, in a violent eight-hour span late Saturday into early Sunday in the city, according to Chicago police.
And a 5-year-old boy was hit in the shoulder Sunday night, apparently by a bullet that had been shot into the air in Humboldt Park. And a 10-year-old boy was wounded when bullets were fired at the side of his Englewood home and struck him in his bedroom Sunday night.
Holiday weekends are particularly dangerous in the city, which has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the country. Dozens are routinely shot or killed, with the total frequently topping 100.
Get Your Abortion Today!
But instead of cracking down on crime, Lightfoot worries about protecting illegal aliens from deportation and, last week, abortion “rights.”
“Make no mistake, the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade is not only about abortion,” the mayor tweeted last week. “It is also about controlling what other people can do, especially women & POC. Chicago must be & will continue to remain a safe haven for those seeking reproductive care.”
But days before that, the mayor went on the states’ rights’-nullification rant.
“I got a message for Justice Thomas and for the Supreme Court,” Lightfoot said of the decision authored by Associate Justice Samuel Alito. “We will not let you take away our rights under any circumstances. These rights are hard fought. These rights are in the spirit of who we are as Americans.”
In fact, the decision does not “take away our rights;” it returns the decision to forbid or permit abortion to the states and democratically-elected legislatures where it belongs. Not that nuance matters to a lesbian ideologue.
Speaking of the right to commit sodomy and enter fake same-sex marriages, Lightfoot warned that “we’re not going to go back to a day where interracial marriage is vilified. We will not go back to a day when gay men in loving each other is treated as a criminal act, and we will not retreat from same gender marriage. We’re not going backwards.”
Lightfoot promised that Chicago would remain a “justice for all city,” and a “sanctuary” and that leftists will “mobilize” and that “we will stand as beacons of light for what our country should be…. We will fight, fight, fight.”
When Lightfoot will mobilize police to “fight, fight, fight” crime in her city she left to the imagination of Chicagoans whose family members have been murdered.
City dwellers have suffered an average of almost two homicides a day this year.
