Roe is Gone . . .
But the Fight Continues
Fifty-one years ago today the US Supreme Court decided it was okay to kill babies in the womb. We now know the Roe v Wade decision was based on lies. However, during the time Roe was considered “the law of the land” over sixty-five million Americans were killed. How many of those would now be working, paying taxes, paying into Social Security and having families of their own paying into the system? Could the financial crisis facing Social Security and Medicare have been averted if Roe had been decided differently?
On January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Roe v. Wade, finding that a "right of privacy" it had earlier discovered was "broad enough to encompass" a right to abortion and adopting a trimester scheme of pregnancy. In the first trimester, a state could enact virtually no regulation. In the second trimester, the state could enact some regulation, but only for the purpose of protecting maternal "health." In the third trimester, after viability, a state could ostensibly "proscribe" abortion, provided it made exceptions to preserve the life and "health" of the woman seeking abortion. Issued on the same day, Doe v. Bolton defines "health" to mean "all factors" that affect the woman, including "physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age."
On the fifty-first anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision, President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris made it their mission to promote abortion on demand and decry the Dobbs decision which threw the 1973 Roe decision out and the abortion question back to the states. Here in PA pro-death legislators took the opportunity to begin circulating co-sponsorship memos to repeal most of the Commonwealth’s Abortion Control Act and remove many of the regulations controlling abortion clinics that were put in place after exposure of Philadelphia’s House of Horrors and the conviction of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Names such as Reproductive Freedom Act and Removing Unnecessary Obstacles to Safe Abortion Access show how deceptive the anti-life crowd is. Killing a baby is not reproductive freedom and treating abortion facilities as ambulatory surgical units is not an obstacle, but a safeguard that prevents another House of Horrors in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson died at the age of 84 on February 21, 2011. Dr. Nathanson co-founded the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), now renamed Reproductive Freedom for All, and oversaw 75,000 abortions as director of an abortion clinic. Nathanson’s high-profile conversion to the pro-life movement was sparked by the advent of the ultrasound machine in the early 1970s. He related how he was moved to acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child after he watched an unborn baby recoil from a vacuum abortion device before being sucked from its mother’s womb. In a radio program in 2008 he explained, “We claimed that between five and ten thousand women a year died of botched abortions. The actual figure was closer to 200 to 300.”
“We also claimed that there were a million illegal abortions a year in the United States,” he continued, “and the actual figure was close to 200,000. So, we were guilty of massive deception.”
The abortion issue is THE issue Joe Biden is running on for re-election saying, he will immediately sign a bill into law that “restores and protects Roe”. He also says he will veto any bill that limits abortion, even abortion up to birth. So, we have a man who runs a campaign based on killing the weakest of the weak – defenseless babies – a man who runs on killing American babies! Biden’s campaign is also based on lies. He recently said, “Today in America, women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to travel hundreds of miles to get basic health care, forced to go to court to plead to help to protect themselves and their ability to then have children in the future. The cruelty is astounding. And it’s a direct affront to a woman’s dignity.” This is an out and out lie! There is not one pro-life state that turns away anyone who is seeking care.
When did the nation reach the point where an entire political party has one mission: promote abortion?
Since January 22, 1973, life has been devalued. We can see that in news stories we read: newborn babies thrown in the trash or found floating in toilets, elderly parents shot and dismembered using a chainsaw, drive-by shootings, simply attacking a stranger without cause, students killing teachers and even other students, increased child abuse and abandonment, etc., etc.
We are a nation who has lost its way. Will we find it again?