“Personhood’ silver bullet to kill Roe v. Wade?”
Why are people always trying to find the “quick fix?” I suspect laziness. Everyone knows that if Roe is overturned the issue reverts to the states. I think that there is a sizeable chunk of the po-life movement that just doesn’t have it in them to continue the fight in 50 little skirmishes around the nation.
I do. I will.
Not necessarily, if the Supreme Court declares an unborn baby a "person," the baby automatically enjoys due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
Politicians are responsible for their decisions in a way that judges never are. They pay a price for stupidity as judges never do.
If the issue returns to the states, we’ve basically won.
I saw Sarah Weddington (lawyer for Roe in Roe v. Wade) speak at the University of Maine (with a group of Catholic students who were protesting against abortion) a few years ago. Amazingly, she did more to expose the weaknesses of Roe v. Wade than anyone else I’ve seen before of since of the subject . Of course, she was speaking from the, “don’t let this happen perspective.” During her lecture she revealed that her biggest fear was that conservatives would eventually pass laws recognizing the unborn at persons because would thoroughly undermine the legal arguments behind Roe v. Wade.
Personhood at conception would invalidate Roe v Wade AND make abortion illegal.
I doubt the 4,000 babies who are tortured and killed each day in this country think we have come up with a “quick fix.”
The fact of the matter is:
Blackmun said he’d ignore “the well-known facts of fetal development” in order to deny personhood rights to the unborn.
They knew alot in 1973, but ignored it. We know alot more now.