{"id":1964760,"date":"2023-07-05T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joseph-one-scotus-ruling-just-gave-us-an-invaluable-tool-in-the-abortion-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T16:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:16:41","slug":"joseph-one-scotus-ruling-just-gave-us-an-invaluable-tool-in-the-abortion-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joseph-one-scotus-ruling-just-gave-us-an-invaluable-tool-in-the-abortion-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph: Recent SCOTUS Ruling Boosts Abortion Battle"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fjoseph-one-scotus-ruling-just-gave-us-an-invaluable-tool-in-the-abortion-fight%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=1964760&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--><h2>One SCOTUS Ruling Just Gave Us an Invaluable Tool in the Abortion Fight<\/h2>\n<p>With the Moore v. Harper Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-1271_3f14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a>, an invaluable tool may have just emerged that can reshape the abortion fight.<\/p>\n<p>The court has reclaimed its own constitutional duty to provide judicial review of state laws:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen a state legislature carries out its federal constitutional power to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joseph-one-scotus-ruling-just-gave-us-an-invaluable-tool-in-the-abortion-fight\/\" title=\"Joseph: Recent SCOTUS Ruling Boosts Abortion Battle\">prescribe rules regulating federal elections<\/a>, it acts both as a lawmaking body created and bound by its state constitution, and as the entity assigned particular authority by the Federal Constitution. Both constitutions restrain the state legislature\u2019s exercise of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This decision may have opened up some unexpectedly interesting possibilities for placing federal restraints on the permission awarded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/19-1392_6j37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dobbs v. Jackson<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-people-who-love-life-should-be-doing-now-to-prepare-for-roe-to-go\/\" title=\"What People Who Love Life Should Be Doing Now To Prepare For Roe To Go\">pro-abortion states<\/a> to legislate unfettered access to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June 2022, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs that there was no constitutional guarantee of any right to get an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/abby-johnson-human-faces-behind-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a>: \u201cProcuring an abortion is not a fundamental constitutional right because such a right has no basis in the Constitution\u2019s text or in our Nation\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the issue of abortion \u201crights\u201d was sent back to state lawmakers and judges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No \u201cexclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But now, the Supreme Court seems to be reasserting its own \u201cauthority to invalidate [state] laws that violate the Federal Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ability of states to do their own thing regarding federal elections \u201cdoes not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules.\u201d Logically, this caveat would appear to apply across the board and should cover abortion rules as well as electoral ones.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the abortion battle may have shifted dramatically once again.<\/p>\n<p>Whether on election rules or abortion rules, state legislatures can\u2019t ignore the Constitution or evade Supreme Court review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what protections against abortion are provided in the Constitution?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Dobbs, the Supreme Court decided that there is no right to get an abortion enshrined in the Constitution. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/one-of-two-wisconsin-supreme-court-rulings-give-president-trump-the-win-should-be-enough-votes-to-win-the-state\/\" title=\"One of Two Wisconsin Supreme Court Rulings Give President Trump the Win \u2013 Should Be Enough Votes to Win the State\">court made<\/a> no pronouncement on whether the Constitution\u2019s right to life and equal protection clauses cover those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joseph-no-kamala-abortion-is-not-health-care\/\" title=\"Joseph disagrees with Kamala's view that abortion is considered healthcare.\">smallest human beings<\/a> targeted for abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Fortuitously, the Dobbs decision did acknowledge the \u201cample evidence\u201d that the passage of laws protecting the unborn from abortion was \u201cspurred by a sincere belief that abortion kills a human being. Many judicial decisions from the late 19th and early 20th centuries made that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Historically, prohibitive abortion laws recognized the unborn as human beings.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the drafting of the Constitution, James Wilson, signer of both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-swap-president-king-declaration-independence-1-thing-immediately-becomes-clear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Declaration of Independence<\/a> and the Constitution, clearly confirmed that \u201chuman life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given that Wilson was one of the original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court, it was presumptuous of a Supreme Court majority in Roe v. Wade to reject as \u201cunconstitutional\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joseph-trumps-indictment-coincides-with-the-anniversary-of-an-event-that-should-have-made-it-impossible\/\" title=\"Joseph: Trump's indictment aligns with an event that should have rendered it impossible.\">common law protection<\/a> of the natural rights of the infant in the womb that Wilson had affirmed in his lectures, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/oll.libertyfund.org\/titles\/wilson-collected-works-of-james-wilson-vol-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Of the Natural Rights of Individuals<\/a>\u201d (1790).<\/p>\n<p>At the time when the Declaration and the Constitution were being drafted, William Blackstone\u2019s \u201cCommentaries\u201d was the preeminent legal authority among American scholars and practitioners of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone was the definitive source of common law cited by American courts at that time. Professor Robert Ferguson in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.au\/books\/about\/Law_and_Letters_in_American_Culture.html?id=V6dygoYIRHkC&#038;redir_esc=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Law and Letters in American Culture<\/a>\u201d (1984) has shown that all of the nation\u2019s formative documents \u2014 the Declaration, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers and the seminal decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall \u2014 were drafted by attorneys steeped in the legal concepts of the \u201cCommentaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCommentaries\u201d identified in law the category of natural persons, which includes \u201cthe infant stirring in the mother\u2019s womb.\u201d Today\u2019s embryologists and fetologists are able to empirically track that original concept of active and purposeful \u201cstirring\u201d \u2014 the lively, continuous flourishing of a baby in the womb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the People\u201d are the government, and the government has a solemn responsibility to protect \u201cour Posterity\u201d from arbitrary deprivation of life. Even the smallest and most defenseless in what Abraham Lincoln called \u201cthe whole great family of man\u201d has a right to life and the blessings of liberty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abolition of abortion \u2014 \u201can act of justice warranted by the Constitution\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1988, President Ronald Reagan issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/STATUTE-102\/pdf\/STATUTE-102-Pg4947.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proclamation<\/a> saying that the protection of innocents must be guaranteed and the personhood of the unborn be declared and defended throughout the land. Reagan proclaimed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death. \u2026 Upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reagan was only reaffirming a long-established truth.<\/p>\n<p>In 1818, Chief Justice Marshall put on the record that in the Constitution there can be no lawful distinction between human beings and persons: \u201cThe words \u2018any person or persons\u2019 are broad enough to comprehend every human being. \u2026 The words \u2018any person or persons\u2019 comprehend the whole human race\u201d (United States v. Palmer).<\/p>\n<p>So, when the U.S. Constitution and many state constitutions proclaim the right to life and the right to equal protection under the law, those rights are still highly relevant to the legal protection of our smallest human beings.<\/p>\n<p>To deny legal protection to the unborn child targeted for abortion is not consistent with the constitutional protections set out in the Fifth Amendment and implicit in the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>When individual states renege on that legal protection, they must be subjected to judicial review.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/joseph-one-scotus-ruling-just-gave-us-invaluable-tool-abortion-fight\/\">Joseph: One SCOTUS Ruling Just Gave Us an Invaluable Tool in the Abortion Fight<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Moore v. Harper ruling, the Supreme Court has regained its duty to review state laws. This landmark decision could reshape the abortion debate, offering a powerful tool. By exercising its constitutional authority over federal elections, a state legislature can now enact rules that impact the fight for reproductive rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2099,"featured_media":1964761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}