Originally published Feb 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“And Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way of the gate. And when any man had a dispute to come before the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, ‘From what city are you?’ And when he said, ‘Your servant is of such and such a tribe in Israel,’ Absalom would say to him, ‘See, your claims are good and right, but there is no man designated by the king to hear you.’ Then Absalom would say, ‘Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.’” – 2 Samuel 15:2-4
Towards the end of January, we archived a news blurb from The Blaze that was titled “Activists ask for compassion for mother who allegedly drowned her baby in bathtub: ‘She is loved. She is valued.”
A 23-year-old woman, Tierra Scott-Franklin, was arrested in Gainesville, Fl allegedly after police found a baby unresponsive in her care. The police charged her with first-degree premeditated murder. The baby was only seven months old.
From The Blaze:
When the woman appeared in court, activists argued for compassion on her behalf.
“She did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved. She is valued. She is cared for,” Saudia Bradley said. “We’re asking that you please do what you do to help her to get the help she needs.”
Scott-Franklin was previously arrested for allegedly assaulting a 67-year-old woman and is also facing a charge for battery of a person 65 years or older.
Another activist said that Scott-Franklin sought help before the incident.
“She’s not well. She let people know she was not well and asked them to take the baby,” Chanae Jackson said.
From Law and Crime:
According to the report, Scott-Franklin told police, “If I can’t have my baby, no one can,” and “I’m sorry, but I don’t regret it.” The Alachua Chronicle reported that Scott-Franklin was on five years of probation after pleading no contest to a battery charge against a 67-year-old victim in 2025. She told police that she was facing “other legal penalties” and was afraid of losing custody of her baby. Scott-Franklin said she suffered from several mental illnesses and claimed to hear voices.
The story didn’t even make it as a mention in our monthly report from January 2026, though it stuck in my mind nonetheless, causing me to revisit it, asking myself, what is the bellwether in this story?
Usually, when a story sticks with me, ESPECIALLY if it is not, in and of itself, a major story, I find a MAJOR bellwether within. I believe I have in this case, and that bellwether is the spirit of transactional being as so chillingly reflected in statements that, within the Progmerican worldview, are innocuous in and of themselves, even heroic.
The first comment by Saudi Bradley established the activists’ unified voice, that “she did what she did, but we stand behind her. She is loved…. We’re asking that you please do what you do to help her to get the help she needs.”
This writer believes that to these activists the death of that child was not the product of an individual’s choice, it was the product of a social choice. The state failed this girl. The people around her failed this girl. Capitalism failed this girl (they didn’t say this, but I have high confidence they would agree with this statement). SHE is not the criminal in this social justice world, the system is. The death of the child is on them.
It should be noted that the mother in this story is black. She is not only a poor single mother with mental issues probably caused by social oppression (most likely, the white devil is behind that bone-crushing energy), she is also the daughter of a slave that was once owned by her white neighbors (or, in a way, is STILL owned by these same white neighbors).
The pattern of generalization that leads to sub-humanization is hard enough for humans to resist. We fortunately also tend to humanize people with even greater ease than we sub-humanize them, though when we grow up in a pattern of sub-humanization it becomes increasingly difficult to live out that humanizing spirit with anyone, not even the closest among you.
I cannot know for certain how close I am to capturing the overall worldview of the activists in that courtroom pleading for a woman who drowned her 7-month-old daughter to death to get treatment rather than prison, but the nature of the defense fills me with confidence I am most likely right.
While I feel somewhat confident in assuming they are made in the image of the white versus POC social justice god, I feel VERY confident that these activists have fully embraced abortion culture. The normalization of abortion, now up to birth, is the underlying heuristic-spirit-habit-of-being driver of this story and the American story as well.
Abortion culture gave the body the spirit for White Devil Social Justice Culture, a culture where the other is in perpetual unredeemable sin, where market forces are driven by social hierarchies, not individual excellence. When the sacred dies in the human, the human becomes transactional, measured in potential profit and loss to the social.
The child herself is hardly a thing. She is an unsustainable burden on a woman of choice.
It is easy to divorce the child from the human, for a mere 7 months separates the child from the increasingly orthodox Progmerican limit on abortion, up to birth. What’s a mere 7 months in the potential of an unburdened woman of choice?
A human isn’t human, perhaps, until they can apply for welfare and/or “vote” for the DNC.
When they say this woman is loved, we would say that too, but not to lift her from the rightful burden the consequence of murder should bring her (which surely is more than therapy). When they say this woman is loved, they mean SHE is a human, here and now, why punish her for the loss of something not yet human, not yet loved?
Social Justice, at its heart, requires you to remove the very thing that makes us human, our unique contextuality. It strips us of individual agency and makes us easier targets for broad-based vilifications that justify the use of coercive action (including lying, acts of fraud, etc.) against unfavorably-viewed social groups.
While the Democrats compare a Voter ID law to Jim Crow laws, their notion of social justice over individual justice is far more in keeping with Jim Crowe laws, whose racially targeted laws presupposed a social-justice score on blacks that gave the whites special permission to use coercive means to prevent them from competing on the same general, predictable terms.
Race Vilification is ALWAYS the outcome of “social-based” justice, as opposed to individual-based justice. As I have explained in other MIA articles, social contextual circumstance is a factor when adjudicating within an individual-based justice framework, but when it BECOMES your justice framework, violence is sure to follow.
Once the state becomes the arbiter of social hierarchies, partisan violence is sure to follow (as it has across the world wherever “social justice” became the norm).
When we think in terms of “social justice,” we MUST remove the particular human from our gaze and replace it with the social human, and this comes after most of us Gen Xers grew up believing we were SUPPOSED to see past “race,” to see past “color,” to see past “sexual orientation,” and just discern people for who they are as individuals in our lives.
This was, and is, a very Americanist message, but one underpinned with language-war booby traps.
This anti-racist message was easily folded into our American ethos, especially as abortion had just been legalized when we were still toddlers, we Gen Xers. We grew up in a world where the word abortion in public was considered shocking in and of itself.
As the anti-racist narrative cemented in our minds, it created a heuristic of good apex existentiality as being anti-racists, and evil apex existentiality as being racists. We whites were well-conditioned to be sensitive to our own racist thoughts long before SJWs became the priests of the land.
Underneath it, though, abortion was becoming more and more normalized. The procedures were becoming quicker, less painful, less dangerous (but not without pain OR danger, as it still isn’t to this day).
The SJWs arrived with people conditioned to view racism and homophobia as the most evil thing a person could ever be. After this, they changed the definition of racism in the halls of colleges and universities to essentially mean “being white.” Anti-racists, the heroes, are the “POCs,” or People of color, or Non-Whites (even though Asians, who are also white, are also POC).
Underneath it all, the sub-humanization of the unborn child was making easy converts to an ideology that offered them cheat codes at the expense of neighbors they could now so easily sub-humanize. They had the power to convict their neighbors falsely, with accusations alone, if they were in a favored social group.
As the metaphorical bodies piled up, however, their neighbors began to notice they might be next, and the pushback began, as it always does in such conditions.
The SJW call is like the Absolom call in 2nd Samuel, Chapter 15. They stood outside our courts and told the people that if only they could judge they could give them justice. They selected their armies from among the perceived disenfranchised, the very people most open to destroying what is and welcoming their very different new social justice.
If you felt bullied by a manly man as a feminine boy, you now had a political weapon to destroy those manly men with, ESPECIALLY if they were white, ESPECIALLY if they were Heterosexual. If you felt sick and tired of hearing about Jesus Christ, you now had a political weapon to destroy your Christian neighbors with (ask them what they feel about gay marriage).
I could create a Horace-like ode of “If you felt…” parallelisms were I to invoke the vast list of “disgruntled adjutants” who would find great advantage in using this new political cudgel against now newly sub-humanized classes of people (which happen to be the vast majority of the people around them).
Take a pause and remember this: The culture I am describing was forced into the minds, bodies, and spirits of children, with penalties for non-compliance and rewards for extreme displays of the new orthodoxy (with transgendered POC children being the highest noble symbol of the new orthodoxy). This was done by the state, and my tax dollars helped fund it.
Whole careers have been made on the backs of cancelled wrong thinkers, and whole careers were never started because the people were in the wrong social class at that time.
Outside of that court, these women activists in this story will find political power in narratives that force them to reduce not only the new disenfranchised social classes but themselves to a character in a badly written play with transparent “villains” and “heroes” who ALL come across as really terrible people in the end.
They are forced into language games that create bad art, which is a sure sign your ideology does not sing with the human body at all. They said this woman is loved, but is she loved so much as fetishized as a political symbol, nothing more?
For all their bluster, one doubts the ladies championing her cause, or the white Progmerican ladies reading this story in full vapors mode, will lift one real finger to help this woman, with their own resources, get through such desperate times. They’ll write grants, they won’t write personal checks.
Now, Social Justice and Abortion Culture will only fuel one another, driving the abortion line past birth so that when a woman in the future decides to place her baby in a tub of water hoping the baby drowns and dies, she will be viewed as being brave for making the empowering choice. If you can’t afford the baby, abort the baby.
If you belong to a preferred social class, your status gives you a pass. If you belong to an undesired class, your status gives them an incentive to COMPEL YOU to abort your own as often and early as possible, but as late as needed. Either way, the pattern devolves into childlessness.
This woman who is “loved” by these activists will find herself living more and more in a world incapable of loving without getting state approval first, which is JUST the kind of culture our masters were hoping would emerge after normalizing murdering unborn children for largely contraceptive reasons alone.
Only Christ asks us to put Him over ourselves, yet social justice asks you to put the orthodoxy over family, which ultimately turns out to be “the party” (which will no doubt happen right here should the social justice faction finally “win”).
The spirit of abortion sowed the seeds for the spirit of social justice, and now social justice is fanning the flames of the spirit of abortion, which is only sure to return the favor (as it has already, in part, but the worse is yet to come). This vortex of violence spends itself out in self-immolation or when adults finally intervene and remove the children from the halls of power.
Either way, it is by God’s will that we walk, and thus by His will that our vessels of wrath continue to be allowed to inflict pain on us or be turned back, if not completely broken, by a rising Americanist spirit.
“As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:36-39
