A Great Victory For Life!

God Is Good! 

Today is a day many of us wondered if we would ever see. After nearly 50 years of prayers, marches, heated debates and brutal confirmation battles, the Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe v. Wade!

Congratulations to the millions of Americans who would not accept the destruction of innocent life!

Today’s decision by Justice Samuel Alito came in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to Mississippi’s law protecting preborn babies from late-term abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. 

The central conclusions of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion that was leaked to the media last month survived all the pro-abortion intimidation tactics. Radical protesters screaming outside their homes, death threats and even assassination attempts did not frighten the pro-life justices. God bless them!

The majority ruled that there is no “right to abortion” in the Constitution. Writing for the majority, Justice Alito declared:

“The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives. . . The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. . .”

He is right! You will not find abortion anywhere in the Constitution. The Supreme Court invented the right to kill a preborn baby in 1973. No Congress and no Supreme Court majority in our history from 1787 to 1972 had discovered such a right before because it isn’t there.

But the liberal justices in 1973 had an outcome they wanted to achieve and they contrived a way to make it happen. Their logic and constitutional reasoning was terrible, and many liberal legal scholars have said so. In fact, even Ruth Bader Ginsburg was critical of Roe v. Wade.

Today’s ruling also survived attempts by Chief Justice John Roberts to water down the final decision. While he agreed with the majority of justices that Mississippi’s ban on late-term abortions was perfectly reasonable and constitutional, Roberts is such an institutionalist and such an incrementalist that he would have allowed the historic injustice of Roe v. Wade to survive.

Thank God Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett had the courage to stand firm and to do the right thing. 

To be clear, today’s ruling is not the end of the abortion debate. Far from it. The court did not ban abortion. The majority said that the issue of abortion is “returned to the people and their elected representatives.” 

That means the issue will be decided in state legislatures and in the Congress.