{"id":1070153,"date":"2021-11-30T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1070153"},"modified":"2021-11-30T20:29:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T01:29:07","slug":"john-kennedy-calls-roe-v-wade-one-of-the-most-poorly-reasoned-decisions-in-the-history-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-kennedy-calls-roe-v-wade-one-of-the-most-poorly-reasoned-decisions-in-the-history-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"John Kennedy Calls Roe v. Wade \u2018One Of The Most Poorly Reasoned Decisions In The History Of The United States\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-kennedy-calls-roe-v-wade-one-of-the-most-poorly-reasoned-decisions-in-the-history-of-the-united-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1070153&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy advocated in favor of overturning the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, calling it \u201cone of the most poorly reasoned decisions\u201d on the Senate floor Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy addressed the case <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/supreme-court-abortion-case-mississippi-roe-wade-dobbs-jackson-womens-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Supreme Court<\/a> agreed to take up in May. The case responds to a 2018 Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks of gestation, challenging the precedent that the right to an abortion is protected before fetal viability.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said that lawmakers have ongoing debates on ways to \u201cprotect\u201d and \u201clift up\u201d the powerless, including unborn and potential lives. The senator said Roe v. Wade gives the \u201cmanagerial elite\u201d the power to rule over moral decisions for the rest of the American people, stripping them of the right to make those decisions independently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow Roe v. Wade is about abortion, we know that. But it\u2019s also about something else. Roe v. Wade is also about federalism. Roe v. Wade is also about the American people,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cRoe v. Wade is about whether a finite group of the managerial elite, and by the managerial elite I mean the entrenched politicians, the bureaucracy, the media, the academics, the corporate phonies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of whom think they\u2019re smarter and more virtuous than the American people, should have the right to make moral decisions for the American people instead of the American people making those decisions for themselves. That\u2019s what Roe v. Wade is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kennedy speaks on Dobbs pro-life case on Senate floor\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qAvZy635lQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/26\/hawley-cruz-lee-supreme-court-overturn-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roe v. Wade<\/a>, the Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22, 1973, that the U.S. Constitution protects a woman\u2019s right to an abortion before the point of fetal viability\u201424-28 weeks of gestation\u2014while granting states the individual right to prohibit abortion after the fetus is considered viable, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/state-policy\/explore\/state-policies-later-abortions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Guttmacher Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The senator called himself \u201cpro-life\u201d and \u201canti-Roe v. Wade,\u201d arguing that supporters of abortion on demand understand that the 1973 decision was wrongly decided by the Court. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/26\/375-women-supreme-court-harms-late-term-abortion-dobbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here\u2019s What 375 Women Told The Supreme Court About The Harms Of Late-Term Abortion)&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven pro-choice legal scholars, who believe in legalized abortion on demand, understand, as does every fair-minded person who knows a law book from a J. Crew catalog, that Roe v. Wade is one of the most arbitrary, its one of the most adhoc, it\u2019s one of the most poorly reasoned decisions in the history of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy said that there\u2019s \u201cno foundation\u201d in the Constitution that grants a citizen the right to an abortion or privacy, nor does it define the term \u201ctrimester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator said that the Supreme Court, through Dobbs v. Jackson, has the \u201crare opportunity\u201d to grant the states the individual right to enforce their own legislation on abortion. He argued that it is the people, rather than the government, who should have the \u201cvalue judgements\u201d regarding abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue for the Supreme Court in Dobbs is what\u2019s the appropriate political forum to make these value judgements: Is it the government, or is it the people? And I hope, Mr. President, that the United States Supreme Court takes advantage of this rare opportunity before it,\u201d Kennedy concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The Mississippi legislation banning abortion at 15 weeks\u2014before the point of viability\u2014was <a href=\"https:\/\/reproductiverights.org\/supreme-court-to-hear-abortion-ban-case-challenging-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">challenged<\/a> by the Center of Reproductive Rights, the law firm Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison, and the Mississippi Center for Justice. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Freproductiverights.org%2Fpress-room%2Fappeals-court-strikes-down-mississippi-15-week-abortion-ban&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cnfranco%40reprorights.org%7C302efcc6678349bf5eff08d9193fc687%7Ce5451579057a46829656b9548f94b665%7C0%7C0%7C637568583984413006%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=DKRY4%2FI4UzL%2FN0Fblk7hH7Vd1E4b1zFNcXjdLXyC7jI%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struck down<\/a> the law in 2019, prompting the state of Mississippi to take the case to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has prepared to begin oral arguments in the case challenging the Mississippi law. Numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/17\/scientific-advancements-abortion-supreme-court-roe-wade-dobbs-jackson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">briefs<\/a> have been filed to the Court on behalf of women, religious organizations, and pro-life advocacy groups urging the justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy advocated in favor of overturning the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision Roe v. 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