Court Overturns Roe v Wade

The Decision Explained

THE US Supreme Court’s decision, late last night Australian time, to overturn Roe v Wade is monumental.

The decision reverses 50 years of insistence that the Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion. As of Friday just gone, each US State will be free to decide its own abortion laws.

I don’t normally post more than one article a day, but I wanted to supply readers with an easy to understand summary of what the US Supreme Court decided yesterday. That way, when you’re talking to friends or whatever, you will have a reasonable handle on it.

First, some background.

Abortion was legalised In 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled that a “right of privacy” included “a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”

More than 63 million babies have been aborted since that judgement.

One in five pregnancies was terminated in 2020.

Weirdly, killing unborn babies went from “safe, legal and rare” to “sacred”.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi described abortion as “sacred ground.”

Planned Parenthood insisted that “Abortion is sacred.”

How did a culture go from believing life was sacred to believing that abortion was sacred?

If abortion was “sacred” then any attempt at limiting it was seen as sacrilege.

That is why pro-abortion activists started attacking Catholic Churches and firebombing Christian pregnancy centres when a draft of the Court’s judgement was leaked a month ago.

An attempt was made to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Protestors have been camped outside Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s house.

Activists not only denied the humanity of the unborn child, but they corrupted the relationship between the mother and the unborn child.

They referred to the unborn child as an “embryonic guest” or a “parasite leeching off the host”.

If the unborn child is a parasite rather than a human being, and if the woman is an unwilling host rather than a mother, all the easier for pro abortionists to live with themselves.

When you consider 50 years of history and all the histrionics of the pro abortion lobby, the decision to overturn Roe v Wade is incredible. The Supreme Court justices are incredibly courageous.

So what did the Court rule?

The Court ruled that“the Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”

The Court ruled that, prior to Roe v Wade, there “was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.”

In other words, the Court ruled that the famous Roe v Wade ruling that legalised abortion, was wrong.

“Roe was on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided,” the Justices wrote. 

It continued …

“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”

Dissenting Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan argued that the Court now “says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of.”

The majority of Justices rightly dismissed this rather hysterical assertion.

Pregnant women have the same rights as everyone else. What they don’t have is the right to kill another human being.

The ruling does not mean that abortion is illegal. Rather, it means returning “the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

In other words, abortion is no longer considered a Constitutional right. Each State will be free to make its own laws on abortion according to the will of the people expressed through their elected representatives.

This is an enormous win for those of us who believe that human life, rather than abortion, is sacred.