Posted on 01/06/2015 1:42:42 PM PST by Morgana
In its January issue, the magazine of the Washington DC Bar Association mulls over the end of Roe V. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in all 50 States.
The story—“Can Roe v. Wade Survive”—opens on the cover and shows a massive number of pro-abortion protesters that converged on Washington, DC—between 500,000 and 1 million—way back on April 25, 2004 at the “March for Women’s Lives.” The editors had to reach back a full decade for such a picture because the march has never been replicated.
The heart of the Roe decision was to overturn the abortion laws in all 50 states, almost all of which outlawed abortion altogether. The Roe decision struck down all those laws and laid out the trimester system that—taking into consideration the life and health of the mother—allowed the States to regulate abortion in the second and third trimesters.
Contributor Anna Stolley Perksy gets the Roe decision largely correct, though she leaves out the fact that Norma McCorvey, the actual Jane Roe in the decision, later admitted to lying about needing an abortion because she had been raped. Persky also leaves out completely Roe’s companion decision handed down the same day, and this is key to understanding the current state of abortion in America.
Where Roe said the States, based on threats to a woman’s life and health, could regulate abortion, the Doe v. Bolton decision defined “health” so broadly as to include practically any reason and, according to abortion foes, gave the US our current regime of abortion on demand.
The Court decided: “[T]he medical judgment may be exercised in the light of all factors — physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age relevant to the well-being of the patient. All these factors may relate to health.”
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Imagine if the 50+million murdered by abortion could assemble in DC. Would dwarf this stupid gathering of proaborts.
If the 50+ babies that have been abortion suddenly rose up from the grave the pro aborts would s*** their pants.
Mind you that is just the babies here in America.
True, but we can’t do anything about other countries.
They aren’t worried about laws. They are worried about the fact that they’re not making the same amount of money. The recent over the edge even for them shock and stupify stories shows their desperation.
It’s about the money ,, take it away by demanding safe conditions and informing their customer base about the actual dangers.
Carl Woodward, who should know a constitutional con job when he sees one, remarked in a 1979 WaPo article, that even in the power mad legal sector, Roe is known as an “abortion” of a decision.
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