Posted on 08/13/2021 6:35:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
The 1973 Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade is about to be put on life support and the plug may be pulled. Speculation is running high that SCOTUS may reverse Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Arguments will be heard in October.
The Mississippi law bans abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. This is a direct challenge to Roe, which says states may not prohibit abortion until viability of the child. If the court upholds the Mississippi law, then the heart of Roe will be gone. States will be free to restrict and even ban abortion.
A brief authored by attorney Allan Parker of the Justice Foundation on behalf of the National Institute of Family of Life Advocates, or NIFLA, urges the reversal of Roe. The first of five specific arguments set forth in the brief states that abortion is a crime against humanity. Since Roe allows for a continuation of this manslaughter, it must be overturned. To date, more than 64 million children have died by abortion since 1973.
Abortion is a gruesome and hideous act. It is not like a dermatologist removing a wart or a dentist removing a tooth, as abortion proponents argued in their early efforts to legalize it. Rather, abortion brutally dismembers a living human being. Skulls are crushed. Arms and legs are dismembered. And the human remains of children are scraped together, placed in a plastic body bag, and sent to an incinerator for disposal. Animals killed at slaughterhouses for food are treated more humanely. The procedures for the demise of condemned prisoners on death row are far more compassionate.
Is abortion a procedure that we should continue to tolerate? Decent humanity requires that it be ended.
Roe allows for this brutality at any time in pregnancy. It said abortion may not be prohibited if necessary to preserve the “health” of the mother. However, its broad definition of health allows abortion for any reason and at any time, including late stages of pregnancy.
According to a 2014 report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the United States is only one of seven nations that allow for late-term abortions. North Korea, Vietnam and China are three others. This is not an honorable fraternity of nations with which to be a member.
The Lozier report states: “The United States is within the top 4% of most permissive abortion policies in the world ... The clear norm among countries that permit elective abortion is to limit abortion to before 20 weeks gestation, and elective abortion is more commonly limited to 12 weeks (the first trimester).”
How could America, founded on the idea that all human beings are endowed by their creator with an inalienable right to life, allow this to happen? The answer to this is that Roe v. Wade created the path leading to where we now find ourselves.
Dehumanization of victims of oppression is always necessary to justify oppression. The dehumanization of pre-born babies in Roe justified to some the acceptance of abortion. Roe made two horrific blunders that dehumanized the unborn.
First, the Court said that it need not decide the “difficult question of when human life begins.” It then proceeded to allow for aborting unborn children throughout pregnancy. Second, it said that the unborn, whether human or not, are not persons under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and thus their lives are not protected as such.
There never has been a debate in scientific circles regarding the humanity of the unborn. This is simply a scientific fact. Even if there is a question about the humanity of the unborn, simple logic dictates that decisions concerning life and death should always favor a presumption of life.
Roe’s denial of personhood to a class of human beings was the second dehumanization of the unborn and opened the door for the death of millions. Such a ruling had precedent only in the tragic Dred Scott Decision, which denied African slaves the right to become citizens and prepared the groundwork for a bloody Civil War.
Abortion is a crime against humanity. Roe denied humanity to an entire group of human beings and opened the door to the American abortion culture. It must be completely discarded.
America’s promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness must be made a reality to all human beings. The unborn, the most vulnerable of our human family, are at the very least entitled to life.
It’s going to be 7-2 to uphold Roe. Trump’s appointments are all squishes and Roberts is compromised.
It would take courage to overturn Roe.
Only Alito and Thomas have any.
I don't believe they're compromised, only that they're marginally better than what we would've gotten under Hillary.
And it doesn't matter. President Biden set the precedent that Supreme Court rulings he doesn't like can be willfully defied without consequence.
The Tragedy of Roe should be overturned because it is bad law.
SCOTUS erred, millions murdered.
Roe v Wade should be overturned because it isn’t law. There is nothing in the Constitution that even suggests a “right to privacy” re. a woman’s body, & etc. It should be up to the sovereign states alone.
It is all backwards. 2A should be the way abortion is treated. It says right their in the Bill of Rights, “shall not be infringed”.
Won’t happen.
The problem is that even blatant error becomes "legitimate" with the passing of time, and enough precedent, though illegitimate, to cement it in place.
And 2 generations have passed since this travesty was implemented.
They will overturn it and return the “law” to the states.
Remember, BEFORE Roe...there was a precedent...and at one point in time, abortion was illegal in all states.
They won’t make any bold move. Likely a punt back to the state to make its own decisions, with some instructions or comments.
This scotus is political. No way they’re overturning roe. They might move it back to 20 weeks viability.
At this point I’d be surprised if Barrett votes to overturn Roe v Wade.
Viability is not a good measure of when to allow or disallow abortion. A good ruling would be one that is both timeless and placeless, but viability is neither timeless nor placeless.
First, look at place. Suppose two premature babies, say 5 months into pregnancy, are born on the same winter night. But one is born in large hospital with excellent neonatal facilities, the other is born in the middle of a blizzard 150 miles from even a small hospital. Are their chances of survival the same? Of course not. Their viability is different because of their place of birth.
The same is true for time. Do two premature babies born in the same hospital, but separated by 75 years time, have the same chance of survival? Of course not. Their viability is different because of the the time of their births.
Viability is neither timeless nor placeless. Viability is really a measure of the available medical technology at the time and place of birth.
A good measure of when to allow an abortion is to use DNA, which is both timeless and placeless. As long as the DNA of the mother matches the DNA of the fetus an abortion should be legal. In other words, never. (Except to protect the life of the mother.)
The Supreme Court should reverse Roe vs Wade, not for moral reasons, but because it was unConstitutional. It violates the 10th & 11th Amendments to the Constitution. Regulation of it belongs to the States. Read these 2 Amendments below and then decide for yourself:
10th AMENDMENT
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
11TH AMENDMENT
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
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