Posted on 11/09/2016 11:27:14 PM PST by Morgana
For 43 years, the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, along with its companion case Doe v. Bolton, has allowed at least 58 million unborn babies to be aborted for any reason, at any time during pregnancy.
But if Donald Trump keeps his promises in the White House and nominates pro-life justices to the high court, Americans could see increased protections for unborn babies and possibly even a reversal of Roe and Doe.
Trump promised to appoint the kinds of judges to the Supreme Court that would please pro-life voters. He released two separate lists of potential Supreme Court nominees, both of which went over well with pro-life voters and organizations. Leading pro-life groups will undoubtedly hold Trump’s feet to the fire as he will take office with the ability to already appoint one member of the Supreme Court following the death of pro-life Justice Antonin Scalia.
“We are going to appoint great Supreme Court justices… These will be justices of great intellect… And they will be pro-life,” Trump told pro-life leaders in June.
Writing for Cosmopolitan, abortion advocate Robin Marty warned that Trump’s pro-life promises could have a “devastating” impact on abortion access.
She wrote:
… when Trump is sworn into office this January, he will be able to appoint someone from his short list of judges “very much in the mold of Scalia.” That new judge will once again make moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy — who is an inconsistent supporter of abortion rights at best — the swing vote on the court. Meanwhile there will be a number of laws geared toward testing his complicated feelings around the “life of the unborn” working their way up the docket.
One could be the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which Trump said he would sign into law. The legislation would prohibit abortions after 20 weeks when scientific evidence indicates that unborn babies feel pain. The bill has more hope of passing after Trump won the White House and Republicans maintained control of the U.S. House and Senate on Tuesday.
Marty said the legislation, especially if coupled with action to defund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, could make it much more difficult for women to get abortions.
“The two ‘pro-life’ policies could create a perfect storm for later abortions or unwanted full-term births, as well as clandestine, self-induced abortions,” she wrote.
Later, she added:
But if Trump has the opportunity to appoint even more Supreme Court justices, that would shift the court even further right, and he has pledged to only appoint justices who would overturn Roe, which would allow states to make abortion completely illegal again. Currently, there are three justices are age 78 or older, and they all are considered liberal-leaning judges.
When the Tea Party rode a conservative wave into office in 2010, states passed hundreds of bills restricting access to abortion and birth control. While the Republican-led House tried to do the same on a federal level, having a Democrat in the White House blocked most of that agenda, keeping it constrained primarily to red states.
With President Trump, a Republican Congress, and at least 33 Republican governors working together, there may not be anyone who can stop them, and no state that will not be affected.
The news is encouraging, but pro-lifers’ work to protect unborn babies and moms from the pain of abortion is far from over.
Even if Roe v. Wade is overturned, abortion would not become illegal immediately across the U.S. If Roe is overturned, states would be allowed to enact their own laws regarding abortion, meaning some states probably would still allow abortions while others would enact laws to protect the right to life for unborn babies.
At the same time, pro-lifers must work to offer better resources and encouragement to pregnant and parenting moms and their babies, so they never have to feel like aborting their unborn child is their best or only option.
I pray that Roe v. Wade is obliterated!
Reversal under anyone is highly unlikely, near impossible. However, I believe Trump will work hard to protect unborn and end Late term and selling body parts and that will be huge.
Simple laws like requiring the woman to view an ultrasound before an abortion will do wonders for saving babies. My pro abortion Mother in law, had a come to Jesus moment when she saw my daughter (her only grandchild) on the ultrasound last year. She is now fiercely pro-life.
It has been a possibility every time the Republicans have held both houses of Congress. The Constitution gives Congress the right to determine the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. Ron Paul used to point the out constantly. The Republicans have not done anything about Roe Vs. Wade because they want to campaign on the issue over and over. It’s a winner for them.
Expect that the baby killers will be fleecing their moron followers for more money to “fight” for their “right” to infanticide and feticide.
Unlikely? Impossible? Weren’t we saying this about Trump just a few hours ago?
The monstrosity of abortion aside, Roe deserves to be overturned because it is fundamentally flawed from stem to stern. Slavery was once legal and considered constitutional too.
Overturn it, get the federal government out of the mix and send the matter back to the states to decide for themselves.
Good! Let’s get’er done!
CGato
Those who have the gall to say that the "yet to be born" are not persons stand categorically on the shoulders of Roger B. Taney (the author of Dred Scott, and largely reviled today). I take my cue on this, not from the Bible, although the Bible supports my stand, but from basic Biology. Each, and every "yet to be born" person has its own unique genetic code, a "true name", if you will, composed of 46 chromosomes, in 23 pairs. No other biological entity has this, thus, they are, biologically, scientifically, persons. Thus, the fall under the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment, and 6 braying donkeys in black robes, nay 6 million such donkeys cannot change this fact...
the infowarrior
You are 1000% correct. The Republicans have NEVER wanted to see Roe abolished. It’s their perpetually reliable issue: keep promising that abortion will be eliminated and the rubes... especially the evangelicals... will keep voting for them. If they got rid of abortion their tried and true means of drawing the voters will be gone.
Well, I had such a “Jesus moment” once, although it didn’t explictly involve Jesus, just the rain on the windshield of my car. Anyway, it was momentous.
The fear and trembling resembles my dog hiding under the bed during a lightning storm. For them their fear is the loss of the abortion gravy train and their place at the trough.
The horror! Pimps and rapists will have to pay for pregnancies, births and lives of children.
The horror! Fake doctors will have to be prosecuted with murder.
Mark my word: Women are not going to be prosecuted for having an abortion, this is not what this is all about, but this is what the left pimps wants you to think.
There is NO excuse for abortion when there are about 40 different contraceptives available at Walmart and other pharmacies, many of them generic and costing around $10 for a 3 month supply.
That’s roughly equivalent to the cost of a couple of bags of potato chips.
And it is astonishing how few people are aware of this.
As a Catholic, contraceptive use in my family is verboten, as is extramarital sex.
But I must recognize that others are not Catholic, and if they are determined to be promiscuous, the unwanted pregnancy can, and should be, prevented before it happens.
We can make abortion socially unacceptable, like smoking, through a massive public education campaign aimed primarily at women, on prime time TV.
And we can get Walmart to sponsor it.
They are right !! God Willing.
Once the pandora’s box of abortion is opened, it’s very difficult to close. Getting the idea of ‘abortion’ as a desirable option out of people’s twisted mindsets should be a goal that’s on autopilot. I don’t see any other way that won’t mire everyone down in a political showdown resulting in mass freakouts from the femi-nutcases.
The process of neurological development of the fetus indicates that it is capable of feeling pain long before 20 weeks. The 20 weeks figure often quoted actually comes from a paper written by abortionists that was published in a medical journal. I think that the purpose of the paper was to promote the (false) idea that the fetus does not feel any pain until that time because it is harder to sell abortion to women who think their baby might suffer during the process. After all, if it was published in a medical journal, it *must* be accurate. Abortionists routinely lie about the issue of pain and other aspects of pregnancy; the more truthful they are, the more business they lose.
In reality, the brain forms between 2 and 5 weeks after conception. The nerves that send messages to the brain also start to grow within that time frame, since the process of neurological development is driven largely through feedback loops, where the brain and nerves "talk" to each other. At five weeks, that fetus is certainly capable of feeling, although the sensations are probably rudimentary at that time; they become more refined and focused throughout pregnancy and childhood. Brain development occurs until roughly age 25 years.
When the Tea Party rode a conservative wave into office in 2010, states passed hundreds of bills restricting access to abortion and birth control.
I am unaware of a single birth control method being restricted. Pro-aborts always use the term birth control along with abortion as a scare tactic--they lump them together to trick pro-lifers into supporting pro-abortion legislature. The strategy is to scare pro-lifers into thinking that laws targeting abortion include birth-control measures, so that even pro-lifers will resist passage of those laws. I've yet to see any proposed legislation targeting birth control. Such legislation would be idiotic--if the goal is to reduce the use of abortion as birth control, why would any lawmaker pass a law making contraceptives unavailable? The fact is that abortion businesses try to dissuade women from using birth control, because every pregnancy prevented is profit lost.
The whole thing just goes hand in hand with a morally bankrupt culture. Try to convince people not to have sex before marriage or at least before having a committed partner who would join you in raising a child. Try even finding young men anymore who would not run from the responsibility.
Our nation is so far gone in terms of the general set up of brining a child into the world responsibly ..... Half of all young people, if not more are serious tramps with absolutely no moral compass.
It’s the culture that needs to un-rot. Abortion is just that necessary little service they all need to enable them to continue their promiscuous lifestyles. How do you stop it?
Severely limiting the availability of abortion might be a start......but even us so-called conservative Trump voters would put up a fight. Our nation needs to do some soul searching......let’s face it, our nation’s collective soul is rotted to the core......and one day, if we aren’t alreay, we will face judgement for it.
Hear, hear. “Legal” murder no more.
Trump’s post-presidential memoirs should be titled, “The Art of the Impossible.” The man has a true talent for proving naysayers to be wrong.
AMEN!!!!
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