Across America, since Roe v. Wade was "turned over" to the states, abortion bans in life-friendly states are under attack from pro-abortion representatives, consequently putting at risk the progress made in those states to ban abortion.
SCOTUS kicking this back to the states to decide is without question the most consequential assault to preborns, to humanity, and to our standing as a a civilized society. WHY?
Because as the Constitution charges, it does nothing to PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, to ESTABLISH JUSTICE, ENSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, and most assuredly, does not PROVIDE FOR A COMMON DEFENSE for all Americans, beginning with our youngest preborn citizens.
Keeping this as as states’ rights issue is a fool’s errand. It plays perfectly into the vicious political machinations of party changes in political power and if states think that abortion bans will be secure, they are living in a delusion.
Equally delusional is the establishment pro-life movement’s misguided position on victimology, believing that a woman seeking an abortion is a victim and should not be held accountable for hiring an assassin to kill her unborn child. No, the child being aborted is the victim.
Abortion is a knowledgeable, premeditated decision, especially when adoption is always the loving option, the right option, the humane option. But a woman who claims she just could not give her child away or give it up for adoption, but who chooses to kill it instead does need counseling and it should freely be available as most pregnancy crisis centers provide.
But killing your child should not be a lawfully allowable option with impunity. That does not deter this crime of taking the life of another human being, and one who is wholly innocent and completely defenseless. Such legal accommodation sends the wrong message and replaces one injustice with another injustice.
So here’s the conundrum regarding the current state of abortion legislation in all of the 13 pro-life states that have banned abortion, making their legislation all a simple word- salad with no ability to deter an abortion if a woman wants to get one. Here’s why:
First, since the Dobbs case was punted back to the states by a cowardly court which could have legitimately used the issue in question of gestational abortion to shift to debating among themselves as to what the framers of the 14th Amendment meant by the term ’life’ when they said, “no person shall be deprived of life.“ Quite easily, naturally, and of course, literally, it means the right to not be unjustly killed.
From there, the court could have invited expert testimony from biologists and experts in the life sciences to confirm that life begins at fertilization. That would have been SCOTUS doing their job to interpret the Constitution, compelling every state to amend their abortion laws to respect life from fertilization and beyond, and thus give the term LIFE in the 14th Amendment UNQUESTIONABLE CLARITY, thus providing a true abortion ban in all 50 states.
By extension, it would naturally establish equal protection eliminating special protection for those who commit child murder or legal manslaughter.
And this is where my brethren in the AA movement ( Abortion Abolition ) with reference to SCOTUS, refuse to acknowledge, standing solely on the right vs wrong platform. There is a Biblical foundation upon which our nation’s founders framed the Constitution and its framework such to even accommodate unbelievers and the secular but nevertheless civilized citizens of our nation who agree with abiding by its laws, that America is not a democracy, but a government of laws, as a Constitutional Republic of laws, not of men.
I too am an Abortion Abolitionist with an important distinction as noted above.
Finally, the second reason regarding the current “word-salad“ impotence of existing state abortion bans relates to the increase that 60% of all abortions now are chemical abortions (mail ordered), and are now self-made, self-managed abortions and as already noted, committed with complete impunity.
With all of the above in mind, America desperately needs a national definition of life bill to provide unquestionable clarity to the term ‘life’ in the 14th Amendment and forever settle this in our laws and body politic.
Please help us by getting behind and promoting support of The Definition of Life Bill Legislative Initiative.
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Proverbs 31:8
“Open your mouth for the speechless in the cause for all who are appointed to die.“
