Posted on 01/19/2022 3:57:54 AM PST by Kaslin
After a COVID-19 driven timeout last year, March for Life returns this year to Washington, D.C., for the 49th year, noting the anniversary of and support to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision of Jan. 22, 1973. This began the era of legal abortion in the USA.
A high turnout is expected due to last year's hiatus, but even more so, to express optimism that this could well be the last March for Life with Roe v. Wade the law of the land.
The Supreme Court heard last December Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi's Gestational Age Act, passed in 2018, posing a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade.
Should the Mississippi law be found constitutional, the Roe v. Wade era, after a half-century, would be over. Given that we now have the most conservative Supreme Court in years, pro-lifers anticipate history in the making.
The Mississippi law alters the viability standard, key to Roe v. Wade, which permits abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy -- the period after which the child is deemed able to survive outside the womb.
The Gestational Age Act moves the focus to when the infant first can feel pain, rather than alleged viability, substantially reducing the time when abortion would be permitted.
Looking back over the last half century that abortion has been part of our national culture, it is difficult to imagine how anyone can see anything but damage that this decision has done to our nation and to our national soul.
The most obvious statistic to consider is the some 63 million children whose lives were taken over those 49 years.
Those whose lives were taken in 1974 would be 48 years old now, at the height of their working careers and, if not for the cultural damage that has been done over these years, may have been well into building their own families.
Surveying our national culture since 1973, I cannot identify a single cultural institution that is better. On the contrary, regarding our core social institutions, everything is uniformly worse.
The American family is in far worse shape today than in 1973.
According to the Census Bureau, in 1968, 85.4% of American children lived with two parents. By 2020, this was down to 70.4%.
Fewer and fewer of our young people are interested in marriage and children.
In 1970, per the Census Bureau, the median age at first marriage for men was almost 24 and for women a little over 20. By 2021, for men this reached almost 31 and for women almost 29.
Fertility rates have dropped dramatically. The fertility rate -- the average number of children that a woman brings during her productive years -- must be 2.1 to keep a population from shrinking. In 1970, our fertility rate was 2.54. By 2020, it was down to 1.78.
The overall implications are an ageing society. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in 1970, 10.1 % of Americans were over 65. Today, almost 17% are over 65.
An increasing burden of caring for the elderly falls each year on a shrinking number of working Americans. Per the Kaiser Family Foundation, those over 65, now 17% of the population, account for over 35% of our health care expenditures.
How can anyone not see all this as flashing danger signs to our national future?
The bottom line is a country with a future is a country that values and respects the sanctity of life.
With all the supposed concerns of woke culture, the truth is that respect between people -- whether between races and ethnicities, or between men and women -- begins with respect for the sanctity of life.
Let us all pray, as we begin a new year, that this will be the last year that pro-lifers need to march in Washington to protest the Roe v. Wade regime.
Back to the states where it belongs.
News out of Memphis covered a BURNING PP building, “ARSON’’! how do they know that, the building was still on fire so no investigation could be conducted. Yea 1 less building for the baby killers.
March for Life? Sounds like an insurrection. Time to prepare those small jail cells for an influx of seditionists.
I’m sure that we who march will be treated as pariah and domestic terrorists.
I’ll be throwing as much sand in the machine as I can. I plan to be a rebel ghost.
I will not be wearing a mask, I will not have my cell phone with me, I will not have any form of identification on my person, I do not have a vaccine card so I’ll be without that as well.
Speculative speculation about rumors of the future
Fifty years of a bastardization of government where the Judicial Branch created law.
The pro-life effort will have to continue — at the state level. Perhaps some church leadership will develop on this issue which will continue to be PREEMINENT, bishops !
Yes the focus will go to the states.
Crisis pregnancy centers on the frontlines.
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The Mississippi law alters the viability standard, key to Roe v. Wade, which permits abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy — the period after which the child is deemed able to survive outside the womb. ... The Gestational Age Act moves the focus to when the infant first can feel pain, rather than alleged viability,
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Moving the point of abortion legality from “viability” to “can feel pain” is an improvement, but it’s still not enough.
First, a good ruling is both timeless and placeless.
Viability is not neither timeless nor placeless.
A good ruling would be just as correct 500 years from now.
Also, the location should not matter. A human being is a human being whether he/she is located in New York or Wyoming (or Zimbabwe for that matter).
Consider two premature babies born in two different locations within the United States. Suppose one is born near a New York hospital with a high-quality neonatal care unit in good weather, while the other is born in Wyoming 150 miles from a neonatal care unit during a blizzard. These two infants have very different odds of surviving the first night.
The standard should be one of when does a person become a person. And that happens at fertilization and a new individual is formed. The fertilized egg is not a part of the father and is not a part of the mother, though it is living inside the mother.
DNA, not location, not viability, and not the ability to feel pain should be the standard as far as abortion is concerned. Abortion should be legal for as long as the DNA of the mother matches the DNA of the fetus. In other words, never.
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