Supreme Court Malfeasance

Canada Free Press ^ | 01/22/15 | Alan Caruba

[Sean_Anthony]

I will say no to those who want to remove the moral pillars that have served our society and all societies over the millennia.

Over the course of its history the Supreme Court has made some very bad decisions and the decision to declare abortion legal ranks high among them. On January 22, 1973, in Roe v. Wade the Court interpreted the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to extend a right of privacy to a woman’s decision to have an abortion prior to the third trimester of pregnancy.

There have been 57.5 million abortions since 1973—42 years—when the decision became the law of the land. In all the wars America has fought, going back to the Revolution, the total of those killed in combat as of September 2014 was 1,343,812.

The casualties of the Supreme Court’s decision about unborn Americans reveal the wide gap between the morality, as opposed to the legality, of the Court’s decision.

[houeto]

Sickening!

[Amendment10]

”… the Court interpreted the due process clause of the 14th Amendment [emphasis added] to extend a right of privacy to a woman’s decision to have an abortion prior to the third trimester of pregnancy."

The activist justices who wrongly “amended” the so-called “right” to have an abortion to the Constitution from the bench wrongly ignored the following. The Supreme Court had previously clarified that the 14th Amendment (14A) added no new protections to the Constitution. It only strengthened personal protections amended to the Constitution by the states.

“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

In fact, the Court’s clarification of 14A’s limits reflect John Bingham’s clarification of 14A in the congressional record, Bingham the main author of Section 1 of 14A, where the due process clause is found.

“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” — Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)

So in order for justices to apply the so-called constitutional rights to abortion and abortion-related privacy to the states via 14A, the states would have had to amend the Constitution to expressly protect such privacy and abortion prior to Roe v. Wade imo.

Note regarding abortion that the Supreme Court also wrongly ignored that Founding States had made the 10th Amendment to clarify in broad terms that the Constitution’s silence about things like abortion means that abortion is a 10th Amendment-protected state power issue.

[Know et al]

Approximately 50 mil died during World War 2. And that with a holocaust.