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Home Christianity and Faith Roe v Wade at 35

1/21/2008 By Ben 2 Comments

Roe v Wade at 35

Tomorrow is the annual Blogs for Life conference at Family Research Council headquarters in Washington, DC, a somber commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the terrible and infamous Roe v Wade decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

A provocative NewsMax essay today from Joseph Sobran summarizes three and a half decades of the debate:

Note the strange progress of the advocates of abortion. A generation ago, just before the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that virtually all legal restrictions on abortion violated the U.S. Constitution, these people agreed that killing the unborn was evil; but they held that its evil might be minimized by legalizing and regulating it.

Then they shifted to what might be called an agnostic position: that nobody could say whether abortion is right or wrong — the question was always vague: “individual,” or “religious,” or something. Finally they arrived at a third position, flatly contradicting the first two: that abortion is a positively good thing, or as some put it, “a fundamental human and constitutional right.” Fundamental!

The more abortions, it follows, the better. At each step of the political battle, the reason is different, but the practical conclusion is the same. This is how the controversy has gone for a full generation now. At the same time, the anti-abortion side has never budged an inch. It is still exactly where it stood on Jan. 22, 1973. Neither its premise nor its conclusion has varied.

The pro-life movement has a long way to go, that’s for sure. The battle for hearts and minds is crucial. But, legally speaking, we should continue to persuade moderate-minded citizens that Roe v Wade should be overturned so states can decide this important question, and to elect officials who will nominate and confirm justices with originalist views of the Constitution who inevitably would make that happen. These are the next steps on which serious pro-lifers need to stay focused.

Filed Under: Christianity and Faith, Commemorative, General, National Politics Tagged With: 35th anniversary, abortion, pro-life, Roe v Wade

Comments

  1. Sintya says

    1/22/2008 at 9:22 am

    Planned Parenthood is proudly announcing that 60 percent of Americans support Roe (http://www.planetwire.org/files.fcgi/7630_Roe_v._Wade_Research_Findings.pdf).

    The problem is, America doesn’t know Roe….

    The Roe IQ Test, created by Focus on the Family, Alliance Defend Fund, Concerned Women for America, and Family Research Council, is a 12-question quiz designed to gauge what the country knows about the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.

    More than 40,000 test-takers have taken the Roe IQ Test (http://www.roeiqtest.com/ui/), and most of them flunked (http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000006308.cfm), earning an average score of only 58 percent. What makes this more striking is that polling indicates that the more people understand Roe, the less likely they are to support it.

    Today—January 22—marks the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade ruling. Many of the people who will vote in this year’s presidential election weren’t even alive when the ruling was handed down. Isn’t it time that we refreshed our collective memory about this decision that has enabled the premature deaths of tens of millions of children?

  2. Ben says

    1/22/2008 at 12:10 pm

    Thank you for sharing this excellent resource. I hope some of my readers take the quiz as I did (and scored 100%).

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