DEACON FOR LIFE

Were there to be no support in the whole history of ethical and moral thought, were there no acknowledged confirmation from medical science, were the history of legal opinion to the contrary, we would still have to conclude on the basis of God's Holy Word that the unborn child is a person in the sight of God. He is protected by the sanctity of life graciously given to each individual by the Creator, Who alone places His image upon man and grants them any right to life which they have.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

How Would We Enforce New Abortion Laws?

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With the changes that have taken place owing to the election of President Donald Trump, it is not inconceivable that prohibition, or major restrictions, on abortions may ensue in the next few years. Several possible scenarios come to mind.
If the nomination of Neal Gorsuch for the Supreme Court is approved, and a significant test case calling into question the validity of Roe v. Wade enters into the Court’s roster, the 1973 decision might be reversed. By default, although it was never legislated, Roe v. Wade became the “law of the land.” Contrary to what most people think, many Supreme Court decisions have been overruled or revised. Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) overturned Baker v. Hodges (1972), which had left the status of same-sex marriages in question. So some future case might be the catalyst for overruling Roe v. Wade’s application of the “right to privacy” to abortion.
Or (depending on his pro-life commitment), President Trump

English: Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States.. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

might resurrect one of Lincoln’s maneuvers. After Dred Scott (1857) established the protection of slavery as the “law of the land,” Lincoln and the Republican Congress in 1885-86 engineered the passing of the 13^th and 14^th Amendments to make the abolition of slavery crystal clear.

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