World Views

A Look Back On A Half Century of Roe

This past Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Roe v. Wade case which unleashed a holocaust slaughter of the unborn across our country. When Cain killed his brother Abel, Abel's spilt blood cried out to the Lord in heaven and he heard him. What would the blood of 70 million innocent aborted children sound like? This is the 50 year legacy of the Roe v. Wade decision.

A  Harvard Law Professor, Laurence Tribe, wrote that the abortion debate was a clash of absolutes, liberty on one side and life on the other. Although he correctly framed the argument he came down on the side of absolute liberty. By claiming absolute liberty you have the right to destroy another humans right to live. This is moral insanity for any society to believe this, yet we have lived under Roe which has done exactly that.

 Roe was passed overwhelmingly by a 7-2 decision. Justice Byron White wrote the dissenting opinion which turned out to be the very reasoning that overturned the decision 50 years later. The decision was a legal and a moral disaster for our country resulting in over 64 million souls lost to abortions. Can you imagine what it would be like if you went to the states of California, Florida and Idaho and  found them empty of people?  Those three states populations add up to approximately 64 million people, the same number murdered by abortions.

What mind set justifies this perdition? The worldview that sees life as a cosmic accident, random chaos plus billion of years of time and somehow life crawls out of a primordial soup. We are no more than a perambulating sack of chemical reactions. There is no soul or belief in the metaphysical. Everything can or will be explained by science. We live in a mechanistic world where life has no meaning or purpose. Science is our savior and is the god we turn to with all our problems for answers. This is Enlightenment thinking that has slowly poisoned the Christian worldview that once was predominant in the west. This is why in a philosophical sense abortion is practiced today. The Bible calls it "whoring after Molech." Molech was a god worshipped by the Canaanites that required child sacrifices to it. In Leviticus, God expected anyone guilty of this practice to be put to death and anyone who refused to stop this practice was guilty as well. 

Now we are back to square one, as if Roe never happened. Each state must decide for itself the abortion issue. Some will outlaw it all together and some will embrace it and remove any regulation or impediment from obtaining one. Before Roe became law New York State had already legalized it. They went so far as placing billboard ads in surrounding states to drum up business. Come to New York and for $250.00 we take care of things for you. Two years after legalizing abortion in the state over 400,000 abortions were performed, 2/3 of this total came from out of state "customers." Do the math 400,000 abortions at $250.00 each, they grossed 100 million dollars, the abortion industry had begun and it was lucrative. Today it is even more so, abortion factories like Planned Parenthood not only perform abortions but sell body parts for scientific research. It is big business.

Everything in our power must be done  to stand against this evil. We have a chance for a redo in every state, the stakes are high and  it is life or death, there is no middle ground to be found, you must choose a side. Which side are you on?

Pennsylvania Post Roe

Kansas and Indiana made the news this week, the former voting down an abortion ban law and the latter codifying into law the strictest anti-abortion law in the country. So where does Pennsylvania stand in regards to abortion? We stand on hold, waiting for the election of a new governor and legislative seats. (D) Josh Shapiro is the radical pro-choice candidate running for governor against (R) Doug Mastriano who is pro-life. Life is on the ballot this November in the Commonwealth, make no mistake about it. As early as this coming spring we could be voting on a Constitutional Amendment. (Senate Bill 956) The bill introduced by (R) Senator Judy Ward was in response to the abortion industry's lawsuit demanding an end to Medicaid restrictions on abortions. Currently Pennsylvania Medicaid only pays for abortions in the case of rape, incest or the life of a mother is at stake. The abortion industry is going beyond just the funding by taxpayers but is looking to inject a "right" to abortion into the constitution via a State Supreme Court fiat. Senator Ward's bill also will decline any "right" to abortion in Pennsylvania. The abortion industry is trying to bypass the legislative and constitutional amendment process by going through the courts. Does this strategy sound  familiar? It should be, this is the same strategy that brought us the Roe decision that was just ruled unconstitutional on the federal level by the United States Supreme Court. 

The consequences of a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in favor of the abortion industry would be disastrous to pro-life efforts in the Commonwealth. The Abortion Control Act would be struck down. Protection for late term pregnancies would cease, no parental consent requirements and no 24 hour waiting period. Abortion centers would no longer be subject to state inspections. This law was passed in response to the Gosnell house of horrors.  Abortion clinics would be less regulated than a massage parlor. In order for PA Bill 956 to become an amendment  to the constitution, it must pass both the House and Senate in two consecutive sessions and then be voted upon by the people. That is why this November state elections are so important. The bill has passed both House and Senate already and it needs to be passed again this upcoming session. We need to vote in pro-life candidates so that we can pass Senate Bill 956 and insure the addition of the Life Amendment to the PA Constitution. 

Thoughts on 49 Years of Roe v Wade

Before 1973 and the Roe v Wade decision, there were thirty states in which abortions were illegal. That all changed when the Supreme Court struck down the laws in those 30 states and made abortion on demand legal and a "constitutional right" in all 50 states. Legal scholars on both sides of the issue agreed that Roe was decided wrongly. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 63,459,781 babies have been aborted as a consequence of this decision. We have been witness to a holocaust right under our very nose for 49 years. A national industry of slaughterhouses aka Planned Parenthood sprung up to provide abortions on demand. Techniques were experimented with to provide the least amount of damage to sought after fetal tissues that were then sold to tissue banks for further distribution and sale to the scientific research community, a lucrative sideline for the abortion provider and banks.. Never before has there been a more heinous dehumanization and callous disregard of human life victimizing such a vulnerable population (the unborn) in history.

Friday, June 24th, 2022 things came to a screeching halt, Roe v Wade and Casey v Planned Parenthood were overturned in a landmark decision by the conservative justices on the SCOTUS.  Dobbs v Jackson was the catalyst for overturning the wrongful decisions made so long ago. Abortion  issues will now be decided at the state level. Women who make up greater than 50% of the voting population will have their say in electing pro-life or pro-choice legislators and governors in their respective states. The ball is in the court of the people to decide, not unelected judges. In a way it is a hollow victory, abortion is not going away overnight with this decision. It is, however, a legal victory for upholding the constitution and the rule of law.

Pro-Lifers, we need to roll up our sleeves, the fight has just begun! We need to define legislation to protect the rights of the unborn from conception to birth. This and nothing less should be our goal. The spilled blood of Abel cried out to the Lord and he heard. What does the sound of 63 million innocents crying out to the Lord sound like? I shudder to think about it.