{"id":1559280,"date":"2022-07-18T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1559280"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T14:49:17","slug":"the-pro-life-movement-in-america-must-recover-its-intellectual-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-pro-life-movement-in-america-must-recover-its-intellectual-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pro-Life Movement In America Must Recover Its Intellectual Foundation"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fthe-pro-life-movement-in-america-must-recover-its-intellectual-foundation%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=1559280&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--><p>The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is clearly good news and a sign of progress. The correction by the majority opinion in the Supreme Court, as crafted by Justice Alito, is a much-needed return to Constitutional facts: \u201cThe Constitution does not confer a right to abortion\u2026 Roe and Casey are overruled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is fundamental that the founding document of the United States be purged from the egregiously false interpretation that it conferred on the Supreme Court the right to grant women the legal right to kill their babies. It is lamentable that it took the Supreme Court nearly 50 years to state that obvious fact.<\/p>\n<p>The decision is helpful in another regard: it restores greater legitimacy to the Supreme Court. It was clearly a delegitimizing factor for the Court to have ruled that, based on their decision, mothers could kill their children in America. The decision helps to dissipate the question of the Court\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>The overturning of Roe and Casey also allows states to enforce laws to protect the lives of the undelivered babies in the womb. The unchecked slaughter of about 60 million babies since 1973 is an unprecedented evil in human history. The decision also demonstrated the overwhelming historical evidence of the pro-life protections of babies in the womb before Roe and Casey \u2013 namely, that nearly every state in the Union had established protections and criminalized the killing of babies in the womb.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the decision creates cultural impetus for further laws to be enforced to protect the right to life of the child in the womb. This impetus, though, cuts both ways. The decision in its text, from a historical perspective, obliterated the false claims and improper understanding of stare decisis maintained by the Court\u2019s minority opinion, but failed to render fully the necessary relation of stare decisis to justice.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life community\u2019s decades-long grassroots efforts against the abortion industry, coupled with the undercover investigations publicly unmasking the horrors of that industry and Planned Parenthood, have certainly helped make the ruling possible, without which even more babies would have been sacrificed.<\/p>\n<p>The Dobbs Decision\u2019s First Fundamental Error<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the majority opinion\u2019s legal, moral and philosophical reasoning was deeply flawed. The theoretical errors that allowed Roe and Casey survived the majority opinion and are visible also in the responses of varied pro-life outfits that continue to rest the pro-life cause on unsound theoretical foundations that have also contributed to the delay of justice for babies in the womb. In the aftermath of the decision the immediate reaction was tainted by many who offered their analysis, but had in fact never read the actual decision.<\/p>\n<p>One can cite, for example, the inability of religious and pro-life leaders to see that the foundational reasons for the decision are simply part of the logic of the pro-abortion movement, thus unsustainable as an example of justice or right reason. For instance, Cardinal Joseph Tobin (Newark), proclaimed: \u201cThe United States Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization to overturn the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide recognizes that even the most helpless and dependent human beings have a right to life and possess inherent dignity and worth.\u201d Cardinal Tobin claims that the decision vindicated the right to life of the unborn. Archbishop Nelson Perez of Philadelphia and others echoed this error: \u201cI am grateful to the Justices \u2026 for their opinion, which affirms the deep value inherent to every human life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet the Court did not affirm this. The Dobbs decision states exactly the contrary: \u201cOur opinion is not based on any view about if and when prenatal life is entitled to any of the rights enjoyed after birth.\u201d Here the Court proclaimed that they are not affirming that babies in the womb have any rights, nor did they state when, if at all, they possess such rights or even that their rights are to be perceived from the decision to be equal to the rights enjoyed after being born.<\/p>\n<p>Alito and company do not affirm that a right to life exists or that the child in the womb has equal rights to any of us after birth. The decision makes no moral, philosophical or scientific claims about the child\u2019s status or necessary legal protections. Undoubtedly, the celebratory tone of these bishops erroneously presumed that the teaching of the Catholic Church \u2013 which has been clear and consistent for 2022 years, condemning abortion without exception \u2013 was being affirmed by the Supreme Court. Clearly, it was not.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Error<\/p>\n<p>The second error of interpretation regarding the Dobbs decision is exemplified by Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez, president of the USCCB: \u201cFor nearly fifty years, America has enforced an unjust law that has permitted some to decide whether others can live or die; this policy has resulted in the deaths of tens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey is clearly good news and a sign of progress. 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