This weekend, we are celebrating the end of 50 years of the mythical “right” to abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade. Tomorrow, June 24 marks the anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Inc. in which the Supreme Court overturned Roe and held that “The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision.”
So what has happened in the year since Dobbs was decided?
First, the good news. Thirteen states are enforcing laws that impose strict civil and criminal penalties on abortionists in clinical settings. This means brick-and-mortar abortion clinics are out of business in those states. Five additional states have enacted laws that prohibit abortionists from killing babies once a heartbeat has been detected (usually 4-6 weeks gestation). These laws have real influence: Following the passage of Georgia’s heartbeat law, abortions were reduced by over 40 percent!
And now the not so good news. In four of the five states with heartbeat laws, the laws are currently blocked by the courts. In addition, well over half of all abortions in the country are committed chemically, through abortion pills. Tragically, women can still legally obtain and ingest these pills in every state.
So what are we doing about it?
Life Legal is working diligently to ensure that babies who are targeted for abortion are afforded the same protections as other babies in the womb. We are vigorously opposing laws that discriminate against unborn children, treating them as less than fully human.
In California, we sued the Attorney General to challenge a law that creates perverse financial incentives to abort and discriminates against women who choose to carry their babies to term. We just won a small, but significant victory in the case.
We are defending pro-lifers who are harassed, threatened, and even assaulted for engaging in constitutionally protected activities.
We are representing pro-life heroes facing draconian civil and criminal sanctions because they dared to speak up for those who have no voice.
We are filing lawsuits to hold abortionists and their staff accountable for injuring pro-lifers and violating their First Amendment rights.
In addition, we launched a billboard campaign to replace abortion tourism ads with a pro-life, pro-chastity message in several states.
From California-based Life Legal Defense Foundation.
All States in America should enforce pro-life views not just 13. God bless America.
How many states have abolished the death penalty? That’s prolife.
don’t have sex because he bought you dinner.
don’t have sex to get him to shut up
don’t have sex because he gets mad
don’t have sex because he bought you a gift
don’t have sex because you said you might
don’t have sex because you do not know another way to end a date
don’t have sex because he will not leave if you don’t
don’t have sex because he expects it
don’t have sex because he nags
don’t have sex because he will hit you if you don’t
don’t have sex because he threatens to tell your secret
don’t have sex because he pouts
What are pro-life views?
Should a 12-year-old impregnated by her father be required to carry to term?
Must a mother who is having a miscarriage be forced to go home and suffer until she is near death before a doctor feels that it is safe for him to treat the woman without being arrested? Etc.
Most of the laws passed to date do not consider the adverse consequences that result from them.
No, America should not enforce pro-life views which are draconian and don’t consider the health of the mother. That is not pro-life. It is pro-birth and/or pro-death. ln any case, most of these laws are immoral and need to be changed so that they only apply to voluntary/selective abortion. It is always wrong to just not want a child, but it is not wrong to want to live rather than die or to carry a child that is tre result of rape and incest.
God doesn’t make “mistakes.” All babies deserve to be carried to term, given birth, and then adopted to a good family, if you cannot care for the child. The Catholic Church teaches that all human life is sacred, and must be respected and protected from the moment of conception to natural death. All life has a place, meaning and purpose, Divinely ordained. The mother doesn’t need to leave information about a baby’s circumstances of conception, in adoption cases. And what if the baby had an excellent mother and father, everything right in their marriage– but the baby was handicapped, physically, mentally or emotionally? Or had a rare disease? The baby still deserves to live! Read the inspiring story of St. Gianna Beretta Molla, for starters.
You are not responsible for how you were conceived and you do not deserve the penalty of death because of how you were conceived.
Not sure, but we may be in danger of losing a dedicated Pro Life bishop! Bishop Joseph Strickland, head of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, has been in some trouble with the Vatican lately, for his orthodox, faithful Catholic views. He is receiving a Vatican visitation from the Dicastery of Bishops at 9pm. Very shocking. Prayers needed!