The Crime of Abortion by Judie Brown

In recent days, a couple of ideas have flowed from the minds of pundits that suggest paving new paths for pro-life thought and action regarding abortion law. Unfortunately, both of these suggestions are far off track, and neither would do anything towards achieving the ultimate goal of establishing personhood for all human beings from the moment of fertilization.

The first suggestion is that it would be a good thing for the Supreme Court to overturn the deadly Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton decisions of 1973, for that would throw things back into the hands of the states. While those two rulings, which permit abortion for any reason at any point between fertilization and birth, are fraught with evil, overturning them alone will not return the country to a certain point in time in 1973.

For one thing, abortion was already decriminalized in several states prior to 1973. Since the Roe and Doe rulings, many state legislatures have fallen prey to the propaganda that Roe v. Wade was "the law of the land" and have written a "right" to abortion into their state constitutions. Sadly, in those particular states, legal abortion is indeed the law of the land, and overturning Roe and Doe would have no impact in those states.

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