'Personhood' silver bullet to kill Roe v. Wade?

Pro-life organizations are trying to build support for the legal definition that an unborn child is a person to exploit a weakness that was cited by author Harry Blackmun when he wrote the creative Roe V. Wade abortion precedent in 1973.

But their work has generated a huge argument within the pro-life movement: whether it's better to chip away at the opportunities abortionists have to conduct their business or a challenge should be mounted to confront Roe's very premise that the unborn are only tissue.

WND reported earlier when several pro-life organizations launched an advertising campaign that was critical of other pro-lifers for their praise for the U.S. Supreme Court's partial birth abortion decision, which said some procedures could be restricted.

Groups including Focus on the Family noted it was the first court opinion in years that actually supported abortion restrictions and said it was a moral victory, while others including the America Life League countered that the court ruling actually would not prohibit a single abortion, just a way of doing them.

That argument has been raised to a new level now, with opinions from some of the top legal experts in the pro-life camp squaring off in a sort of debate at the Personhood.net website.

(((Blackmun said he’d ignore “the well-known facts of fetal development” in order to deny personhood rights to the unborn.)))

Are you referring to the lies Blackmun wrote within the Roe decision itself or something he might have communicated elsewhere?

Hunter is a good man and would make a great president if we were still living in a constitutional republic. But alas we are not, and abortion is viewed by most "good" folks as simply another means of contraception.

It was Griswald in 1965 that led to Roe. It made contraception legal and as far as I can see we will have abortion as long as we have contraception. Pope Paul VI predicted just that in 1968.

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