A Glorious Day for Life: The Courage of the Supreme Court in Rejecting the Bad Law and Bad Science of Roe v. Wade
/ / June 25, 2022 at 01:45PM
Like my granddaughter shown at the right, I’m ready to jump for joy! One of the darkest chapters of American history, one that has caused the unnecessary deaths of millions of the most vulnerable and innocent among us, has just become a little brighter with a genuinely courageous Supreme Court ruling today that overturns one of the most egregious examples of bad law and bad science in recent decades. This doesn’t make abortion illegal, though. It just leaves the decision to the states. It’s not a huge change for the right to life, but an important decision nonetheless.
Contrary to the rhetoric already coming from some extreme voices, the ruling Friday is actually rather moderate. It recognizes that the law and logic behind Roe v. Wade were terribly flawed, as legal scholars across the spectrum have long known, and in overturning such bad law, it merely leaves the abortion issue in the hands of the states. For some of us, it was perhaps overly moderate in not ruling in some way on the core issue of the personhood of a human fetus under the Fourteenth Amendment. Over 63 million unborn children in the United States since Roe v. Wade never had a chance to experience life outside the womb. That’s a staggering toll.
Ironically, some of the people who will be most angry about this decision are those who, in good faith, have courageously stood for the principle that black lives matter, not recognizing the ugly and racist eugenics that were a driving force in the life and actions of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, an organization whose extensive support of abortions have resulted in black babies preferentially being eliminated relative to white babies. If black lives matter ( and THEY DO!), we should especially cherish the lives of black infants and welcome them into the world, rather than encouraging and incentivizing their parents to terminate those precious lives.
What we have learned in the past few decades about the miracle of life has expanded our horizons in many ways, revealing the miraculous brilliance and majesty hidden in our cells and our genes, steadily adding to the wonder of reproduction. The tiny infant is more than amazing — it is miraculous, a divine gift. I’ve shared this before, but it’s worth seeing again. Here’s a three-minute scientific visualization, “Meet Baby Olivia” from LiveAction.org, that could help save the lives of millions if more of us were to grasp and follow this science:
Meanwhile, stay informed (one source on the right to life, for example, is NRLC.org), speak out, and please help support and even defend the pregnancy centers on the frontlines of the battle for life. One place I have donated to is Preborn.org. If you have other suggestions, please share them here. Thanks!
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Are we the kind of people who support dated ideology despite the things we learn through scientific advances?
Or will we treat the abortion issue like a science issue and make sure we are making the best decisions based on what we learn through science?
R&*I – TxPAT. (edited for length)
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