If Iowa somehow nanaged (despite itts Democrat Senate) to pass a law that banned abortion from the moment of conception (which we both agree is the only just law possible), it would be struck down by the courts and we’d be back to the status quo ante. We need to pass a law that will be upheld by 5 SCOTUS Justices and will chip away at Roe v. Wade. Trent Frank’s bill, which prohibits abortion even prior to viability and which does not have an exception for the “health of the mother” (a clause that makes abortion laws generally ineffectual because a woman can always get a letter from a doctor saying that having a baby would damage her “mental health”), would be, if upheld by SCOTUS, a HUGE step towards ending abortion in America.
Except that it doesn’t actually work that way in the long run. Because, your approach, the NRTL approach, the “pro-life” “Republican” approach, surrenders the core, indispensable principle of equal protection under the law, right up right, assuring your continued defeat. We now have forty years of 20-20 hindsight, of harsh political and legal experience, to prove it.
How can a soldier who has stripped himself buck naked and thrown away all of his weapons and all of his ammo be believed when he tells you he is going to fight and defeat the enemy?
To hell with the Supreme Court. To hell with all the courts, if they won’t keep the first obligation of their oath, which is to provide equal protection for the God-given, unalienable rights of the individual. If they don’t agree with the cornerstone principles of the republic, impeach and remove them. If they ignore every clause of the stated purposes of the Constitution, all of which are obscenely violated by the practice of human abortion, throw them out.
“Chip away at Roe”? What does that even mean? Roe is a forty year old immoral, unconstitutional (Republican) court opinion in a particular case. Ignore it, just like you ignore Dred Scott. It is a nullity. It is void.
“When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.” — Alexander Hamilton
And remember, we’re not even talking about laws, when it comes to Roe. It’s a court opinion. Zippedy-do-dah.
No, what we really need, desperately, are executives and legislators who will keep THEIR OWN OATHS, regardless of what anyone else in any other branch does. Only then will we stop this holocaust.
The judicial supremacist fallacy is the most destructive doctrine extant in this once Free Republic. Nothing that I know of is doing more to extinguish our constitutional form of republican self-government.
Not only is the practice of human abortion NOT “the law of the land,” it COULD NOT BE the law of a land premised as this one is in a clear understanding and acknowledgment of the laws of nature and of nature’s God.
“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. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men...” — The Declaration of Independence
Every elected executive, every legislator, every judge, that allows the practice of human abortion to continue anywhere in America is in gross violation of their sacred oath of office. They have, as our constitutional republic’s founders charged against King George III in our nation’s charter, the Declaration of Independence, “abdicated government here by declaring us out of [their] protection and waging war against us.”
“Good and wise men, in all ages...have supposed, that the Deity, from the relations, we stand in, to Himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is, indispensably, obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution whatever. This is what is called the law of nature, which, being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is, of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries at all times. No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid, derive all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.” — William Blackstone
God says “You shall not murder.” The U.S. Constitution says “No person shall be deprived of life” without a fair trial on a capital offense. That is the supreme law of the land. It’s not optional. It is imperative. Incremental abortion bills say “You may murder,” and “Some persons may be deprived of life without a fair trial on a capital offense.” As for me and my house, we stand with God and the Constitution concerning this most fundamental matter of principle.