What Right to Life March?

What Right to Life March?

In a sane world, there would be no need for an annual Right to Life March on Washington.

The God-given right to life in Natural Law was declared in the Declaration of Independence as among the 3 most basic tenets of that document: “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It was reinforced in the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution: “nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”

The fact that abortion was legalized thirty eight years ago by the Supreme Court in no way negates Natural Law nor the clear intent in the Declaration or in the Constitution. As with the Dred Scott Decision, Roe v. Wade merely reflected the climate of the times and the agitation of certain elements in society which succeeded in using the subterfuge of questioning personhood as the basis for overturning a fundamental right.

Scott was determined to be a non-person in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857 and pre-born human beings were deprived of their status as persons by Roe v. Wade in 1973. Both judgements represented indelible and shameful stains on the integrity of the Supreme Court. The 1857 decision resulted in the Civil War, the 1973 decision necessitated the annual Right to Life March.

Braving bitter cold, that march of tens of thousands took place in Washington on January 24th but unless careful attention was paid, few Americans aside from the marchers would have noticed. Demonstrating the continuing power of pro-abortionists, the national media, with the exception of Fox News, all but totally ignored it.

If the march were a protest by tens of thousands against Pro-Lifers, it would have been front page news and the lead story on every television network in the land.

Nevertheless, the Right to Life Movement continues the good, the just and moral fight against a grave wrong in our country which has already claimed in excess of 52,000,000 innocent lives with 1,200,000 abortions still being performed every year, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a semi-autonomous division of Planned Parenthood.

Fortunately for the pre-born and for the nation’s soul, that battle has been bolstered by the presence and support of some very good people . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3490)

Abortion, the Bottom Line

Abortion, the Bottom Line

Much has been said and written about abortion rights, too much in fact.

The right of a woman and, as it has evolved, the right of a pubescent girl, to terminate a pregnancy was decided in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court in its landmark Roe V. Wade decision. It thereby became the law of the land. The matter was settled.

Well, not really. The case may have been settled, but the matter was far from settled. It hadn’t been settled any more than the decision of the Supreme Court in 1857, in the matter of Dred Scott v. Sandford, settled that particular matter. The Court then concluded that Dred Scott was a man “of inferior order” and hence should not be accorded the rights of citizenship.

Of course, today the Dred Scott Decision is regarded as odious, predicated on the sentiment of some at the time and a usurpation of the rights of another human being on the basis of his African heritage. It took a Civil War and a number of amendments to our Constitution to right that grievously wrong decision of the Supreme Court. Likewise, with Roe v. Wade, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1663)