What’s Airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today: “Roe: More Than Its Author Intended?” Part 5

January 27th, 2012 Dave Andrusko

By Dave Andrusko

It is no mere academic exercise to attempt to work through the twists and turns that over the space of a year turned a “moderate” abortion decision into the abortion on demand verdict that Justice Harry Blackmun gave an unsuspecting nation on January 22, 1973. Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton unleashed killing machinery that has taken the lives of over 54 million unborn babies.

Using an exemplary analysis written in 2005, National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias has offered us important insights this week into the evolution of Roe, using the fine work of Los Angeles Times reporter David Savage. If you missed any episodes, you can listen to them at www.prolifeperspective.com.

There is no universal consensus, but based on Blackmun’s own papers, it appears that in 1972 (as Mrs. Tobias explains) the language of the “original opinion would have struck down the law in Texas and the laws in 30 other states as well, but it apparently would have allowed states to revise their abortion laws.” Without getting too deep in the machinations of Warren Burger, the Chief Justice pushed for a delay, ”and the majority voted to put off a decision on the abortion cases until the fall.” Read more »

Pro-lifers pulling ahead in the battle over abortion

January 27th, 2012 NRL News

Efforts to save lives continue

By Pam Fichter, President
Missouri Right to Life

Editor’s note. This first appeared in The Columbia Daily Tribune.

Thirty-nine years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court wiped from the books of all 50 states every law protecting the unborn child. In what Justice Byron White called an act of raw judicial power, seven of nine justices imposed on our land the perverse doctrine that a woman’s dignity depends upon her right to destroy her child. In concurrent decisions, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court created a constitutional right to abortion on demand and initiated a reign of terror against unborn children that has resulted in the deaths of close to 55 million babies.

Those outraged by this attack on the most innocent of all life have, over these past 39 years, relentlessly sought to restore the promise of our founding fathers of an “inalienable right to life.” We have been at this a long time, passing our hope and our commitment to new generations. Read more »

A Politically Inconvenient Truth: Roe v. Wade is one of the most widely criticized decisions in American history

January 27th, 2012 Dave Andrusko

By Dave Andrusko

As we come to the end of the week that began with pro-lifers reflecting back on 39 years of Roe v. Wade, it’s worth remembering that it is only occasionally that a politically inconvenient truth works its way out of the darkness and into the light. Roe and its mandate of abortion on demand is one of the most widely criticized Supreme Court decisions in America history.

My two favorite all-purpose assessments are as follows:

“The opinion [in Roe] is replete with irrelevancies, non-sequiturs, and unsubstantiated assertions. The Court decides matters it disavows any intention of deciding—thereby avoiding any need to defend its conclusion. In the process the opinion simply fails to convince.” Villanova law professor Joseph W. Dellapenna. And Roe “is not constitutional law and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to be.” Yale Professor John Hart Ely. Read more »

Falling off abortion’s “Tightrope”

January 27th, 2012 Dave Andrusko

By Dave Andrusko 

Mara Hvistendahl

I’m finishing the week with a truly fascinating example of what happens when a movement supposedly grounded in respect for women runs headfirst into the truth that millions of baby girls are “missing,” the direct consequence of sex-selective abortions, also known as female gendercide.

Kathryn Blaze Carlson, writing in the National Post, a Canadian newspaper, titles her piece “Abortion’s Tightrope.” She uses as her jumping off point journalist Mara Hvistendahl whose book, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men,” created a torrent of debate over the unbridled use of ultrasound to target female babies for destruction in Asia but also in certain ethnic communities in Canada and, perhaps, the United States. Read more »

Don’t Nobody Bring Me No Bad Stem Cell News!

January 27th, 2012 Wesley Smith

By Wesley J. Smith

Wesley J. Smith

Hype over embryonic stem cell research has been maddening.  The media bias, extreme.  And many in elected office, intent on using the sector as a special interest source of campaign funds–and believing the cures meme–have been decidedly uninterested in hearing any ”bad news” about the sector.

Then there was the slush fund created by Proposition 71 to fund embryonic stem cell/human cloning research using borrowed money from the taxpayers in impecunious California. The leaders of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine have stated they will come back to the voters in 2014 asking us to put millions more on the state credit card.

But would it be money well borrowed?  Perhaps an objective investigation could be conducted?  Not in California.  From “Stacking the Deck on the Stem-Cell Program” published in the LA Times: Read more »

Tony Nicklinson – there are limits to choice in a free society

January 27th, 2012 Dr. Peter Saunders

By Dr. Peter Saunders

As reported in the Guardian, Telegraph and Huffington Post, Tony Nicklinson, a 57 year old man paralysed from the neck down after suffering a stroke that left him with locked-in syndrome, today began a high court battle to allow doctors to end his life.

Today’s hearing was a ‘pre-trial review’ and a Ministry of Justice lawyer argued that the case should be struck out on the grounds that it is a matter for parliament, rather than the courts, to decide. Read more »

Pro-abortionists Promote “Virtual March”

January 27th, 2012 Dave Andrusko

By Dave Andrusko

Well, it sure beats driving half a day (or more) across icy and snow packed roads like those “anti-choice extremists” do, and who wouldn’t want to avoid all the blood, sweat, and tears it takes to bus people from all over the country to the nation’s capital.

Why bother with logistics and fund-raising and endless hours of preparation when you can have a “virtual march” on Washington? Read more »

Pro-abortionists ask full appeals court to rehear challenge to Texas Sonogram Law

January 27th, 2012 Dave Andrusko

By Dave Andrusko

Federal Judge Sam Sparks

Two weeks after a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a temporary  injunction against Texas’ sonogram law, the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights has asked for a rehearing by the entire 17-member appeals court. The law is currently being enforced.

CRR would have to convince a majority of those judges that the panel’s January 10 decision deals with an issue “of exceptional public importance or [was] an opinion that directly conflicts with prior Supreme Court, 5th Circuit or state law precedent.” Read more »

Catholics Come to DC to Pray and Witness for Life in Huge Numbers

January 27th, 2012 NRL News

By Susan E. Wills

One important but studiously avoided reason pro-abortionists feel "under siege" is the presence of massive number of young people at pro-life events, such as the gathering of Catholic youth at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, in advance of the March for Life.

Despite stinky weather impeding travel from many parts of the country, Catholic pilgrims from all over the United States gathered in Washington to take part in liturgies, conferences, and youth rallies January 21-23, in advance of the March for Life. The enthusiasm and numbers of Catholic pilgrims is, of course, a great blessing and is evidence of the continuing strength and vitality of the pro-life movement (and a vivid contrast to graying abortion advocates).

Their numbers also create logistical problems for the Archdiocese of Washington—host to many events—and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (“Basilica”) where the all-night prayer Vigil for Life began in 1979, in the Basilica’s Byzantine-Romanesque Crypt Church. By word of mouth, the Vigil for Life soon outgrew the confines of the Crypt and the Vigil Opening Mass had to be moved to the Great Upper Church, with seating for 7,000 and Standing Room Only space for 12,000. Read more »

Tormenting unborn babies in our nation’s capital has to stop!

January 27th, 2012 Carol Tobias

 

An urgent message from National Right to Life President Carol Tobias

Dear Pro-Life American:

Did you know that in our nation’s capital, unborn children daily are subjected to terribly painful deaths, even during the sixth and seventh months of pregnancy, or even later? Did you know that these practices are perfectly legal — because in the District of Columbia, abortion is now legal at any point in pregnancy, for any reason, as long as someone is willing to pay the abortionist for the gruesome “service”?

Our nation was created when the original group of sovereign states came together and formed a federated republic — the United States of America. Article I of the Constitution established that the national seat of government would be placed forever not within any state, but in a special Federal District — and that the Congress would “exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District.” Read more »

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