On January 22, 1973 the United States Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade and in the companion case of Doe v. Bolton made up a Constitutional right to abortion out of thin air. There was nothing in the Constitution forbidding the states from regulating abortion, and the states had so regulated, and often criminalized, abortion since the inception of the Republic. Roe and Doe were terrible crimes against the unborn, but they were also blows against the most precious civil liberty Americans possess: the right to rule ourselves.
If Roe were overturned, the abortion regime of abortion on demand would be limited to a handful of states. Some states would ban abortion outright in almost all cases. Most would bring abortion under ever growing restrictions that would shrink the number of abortions performed. One of the prime defenses of abortion currently, that is a Constitutional right, would be no more. Pro-lifers would be free to focus on the ugly reality of abortion without fear that Federal courts by judicial fiat would upend hard won pro-life legislation at the state level.
We may well be on the cusp of seeing Roe and its progeny overturned. Let us pray that it is so. As we pray let us recall these words of Lincoln, which explains why this battle must be fought and won:
These communities, by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the whole world of men: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty, and wise, and noble understanding of the justice of the Creator to His creatures. [Applause.] Yes, gentlemen, to all His creatures, to the whole great family of man. In their enlightened belief, nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded, and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of man then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They erected a beacon to guide their children and their children’s children, and the countless myriads who should inhabit the earth in other ages. Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began — so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built.
Abraham Lincoln, August 17, 1858
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— Shaughn_A (@Shaughn_A2) January 21, 2022
Great work Donald.
Looking at St. Mother Teresa, her words ringing true, I shutter to think of one of her other insights or prophecy; “The fruit of abortion is nuclear war.”
As year 49 just ended, my gut feeling is that this thin stand of mercy that America is being given is about to break, unless a sign of correction comes forth from our government.
That correction might be in motion based upon early December decisions. I pray I’m right and wrong.
Right about the SCJ making what was a horrible law null and void. Wrong about St. Mother Teresa’s words. Correct me if I’m wrong. Forty years is a generation. A generation plus 9 of killing children.
9 years of Our Lady holding back the angel of God’s arm of justice. If we don’t have nuclear holocaust it’s because of Our Queen of the Holy Rosary, imho.
Judicial precedent and/or stare decisis is no reason for ignoring the whole cloth and penumbra upon which decision was based.