According to the Guttmacher Institute, there have been 476,781 abortions so far this year, 179,320 by Planned Parenthood, and only 4,624 of all those were for rape or incest. The health of the mother is almost never a consideration. In other words, 99.1% of all abortions are for convenience. Note also that this number only includes surgically induced abortions and not chemically induced abortions, so the actual numbers are far worse.
There have been 60,546,761 abortions since Roe v Wade, almost the entire population of the Philippines (64 million) when I first arrived there in 1985. World wide there have been over 1.5 billion abortions since 1980. To put that in perspective, it is estimated that the world's population only reached 1 billion in 1830, and 2 billion in 1930. The number of babies aborted is equal roughly to the entire world's population about 120 years ago. Let that sink in for awhile. This is a blood bath of unprecedented proportions. Does anyone think a righteous God will not hold us accountable?
President Trump is looking for a Constitutionalist to replace Anthony Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court. This will necessarily mean a conservative, pro-life, pro-Second Amendment jurist. The left has been in a tither since Kennedy’s announcement. The real battle is going to be getting the 51 votes in the Senate to approve the president’s choice. At least three Republican Senators including Murkowski of Alaska and Collins of Maine have indicated they may not vote for a pro-life nominatee.
The argument for Roe at its base is the right for a woman to live whatever promiscuous lifestyle she chooses and not have to pay the consequences for it. The Supreme Court even addressed this issue in Roe but rejected it as an argument against women’s rights. I think, however, that the president should not be afraid to make a strong pro-life nomination because Roe is its own worst enemy.
First, the law is based on the false premise of a pregnant woman unable to get an abortion in Texas. In Section IV, p. 124 of Roe v Wade, the Court ascertained that Jane Roe, although a pseudonym, was established as a living person who was pregnant at the time the suit was file. Years later Norma McCorvey, who was Jane Roe, confessed publicly that she was not pregnant at the time.
Second, the Court reasoned in Section VII, pp. 148-149, that the reason for laws prohibiting abortion was to protect women from a hazardous procedure that although rarely performed resulted in a high mortality rate for the mothers. On p. 150 the Court writes that the State’s interest is to see that the procedure “is performed under circumstances that insure maximum safety for the patient.”
With approved medical clinics and safe procedures this was not supposed to happen anymore. However, as we have seen through the years, and as they are becoming more and more prominent, there are many unclean, unhealthy abortuaries where thousands of women have had to be rushed to hospitals and many have died. At the very least this should be an argument from Roe to shut down all abortion clinics outside of regular medical facilities.
Third, in Section IX, p. 161, the Court maintains that the law does not endorse any theory that life begins before live birth. Therefore, in Section X, p. 162 the Court does not allow States to hold to a theory of life that prevents abortion. The Court uses the 4th, 5th, 9th and 14th Amendments to defend this position. However, such an intrusion on the rights of the States and the will of the people of a State is a violation the 10th Amendment, which limits Federal interference in State matters, and is an unconstitutional overreach of authority by the Court.
Fourth, in Section X, p.165, the Court allows States to establish restrictions on Roe based on the viability of the child. Stating that a sister case, Doe v Bolton, must be considered along with Roe, the Court sets viability at 24-28 weeks, p. 160. Therefore partial-birth abortions, as well as any prohibitions on abortions after viability are constitutionally valid.
Medical technology has since improved to the point where babies have survived birth as early as 22 weeks. It has also shown that babies in the womb have a heartbeat at only six weeks, and are able to feel pain as early as 20 weeks. The House passed a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks, but in January of this year the Senate rejected it.
Now I’m no lawyer, of course, and I imagine those who are fighting for life in the courts have already considered and made better arguments than these, but I don’t think the next Supreme Court nominee should be afraid of Roe. Roe can be used to defeat itself.
The fact that the entire case was based on a lie and falsely presented should be enough to overturn it but that isn’t going to happen. The crux of the matter rests on when life begins. Medical science very clearly shows a living being from conception; viability isn’t the issue. The zygote is alive. SCOTUS took no position on this in Roe, but it is the issue that should be drilled home to the Court.
There is precedence to go by. Ohio recently banned all abortions declaring that life begins at conception. More States are considering the same proposition.
Pro-abortion zealots, who are literally anti-science, will never accept the truth, but this is reality. The argument that the Court rejected in 1973, that the real reason behind abortion is the protection and or promulgation of immorality, is exactly what it is all about. How sad that personal pleasure eclipses the beauty and the miracle of life. How tragic that people could be so hedonistic and cold as to feel no shame at the malicious destruction of innocent life. And these people call pro-lifers Nazis.
It is high time Roe v Wade to be overturned before the hand of God’s judgment falls. We need to do all we can to support any pro-life candidate that President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court.
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