Four years ago today, Roe v Wade was overturned.
The worst decision in Supreme Court history had finally met its rightful fate. Anyone who has read Justice Byron White’s dissent in the original Roe decision knew he had laid down a road map for its eventual ending.
Roe was a poorly constructed legal decision that was driven by the politics of the men on the Court at that time. Justice Douglas, as an example, was willing to do whatever was necessary to see Roe passed. He even threatened to author an Op-Ed in the New York Times, chastising his colleagues for slow walking the decision. Today, that concept does not seem untoward. In 1973, there was still some level of decorum regarding the Supreme Court.
I had long believed Roe would go, but I did not know if it would happen in my lifetime. It not only required the Court’s will, but also the right case so it could be addressed again.
In states like the one I live in, the decision to overturn Roe has led to terrible consequences. The people who currently run Maine’s government created the worst pro-abortion law in the world, among nation’s who have abortion legislation.
In Maine, a woman can abort her child until birth. This is the most inhumane legacy when it comes to children of any governor and legislature in our nation’s history. This next step from the one Maine has currently chosen, is to birth the child and then take its life, as former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam suggested in a radio interview several years ago.
Fortunately, in other states, they have taken a different approach and protected the life of the innocent, unborn child.
Unfortunately, like so many other moral issues in America, we the people have allowed great moral issues to become political, instead of remaining about right and wrong. The consequence of allowing abortion to become a political issue is that now, many Americans will not take a stand on the issue for fear of retribution.
Where this goes from here, only God himself knows. I only know that a battle I have cared so much about was won four years ago. I gave my first pro-life speech in 1990, hoping every day that the end for this SCOTUS decision would come.
