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How Roe v. Wade Poisoned the Abortion Debate for Fifty Years
Recently, we celebrated one year in a post-Roe America. As we acknowledge this important milestone, it’s worthwhile to look at how a decision handed down by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice still shapes the way our nation thinks about the humanity and rights of the pre-born after five decades — especially since a closer examination of the standard the Court offered reveals it to be capricious and arbitrary at best.
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center, Harry Blackmun, Patience Griswold, Roe v. Wade, Viability
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What Truth-Telling Liberals Say About Roe v. Wade
The fact that “progressives” in their opposition to constitutional textualists/originalists—whom leftists know approach the U.S. Constitution with more rigorous fidelity than do “progressive” Justices—focus almost exclusively on the possibility that Roe v. Wade may be overturned would seem a tacit admission that there exists no constitutional right of women to have their intrauterine offspring slaughtered. The infamous Roe v. Wade is on the chopping block, and leftists are more distraught over the possible decapitation of Roe than they are over the actual decapitations of tiny humans.
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Tagged Abner Mikva, Alan Dershowitz, Benjamin Wittes, Brookings Institution, Earl Warren, Edward Lazarus, George Washington University Law School, Harry Blackmun, Harvard Law School, Jeffrey Rosen, John Hart Ely, Kermit Roosevelt, Michael Kinsley, Richard Cohen, Roe v. Wade, U.S. Supreme Court, Washington Post, William Saletan
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SCOTUS has Finally Settled this Issue
You may have heard some in the media say that the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has finally settled the divisive issue of marriage. The courts have now determined that both genders are no longer necessary in marriage. That assumption is probably just wishful thinking on their part.
I have been teaching a worldview class this fall at a home school co-op. In setting the table to discuss the life issue, I went back to look at the Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton court decisions which forced abortion on America in 1973.
The two issues …
Posted in Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Doe v. Bolton, Harry Blackmun, Roe v. Wade
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