Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, pro-life Americans will March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Hundreds of thousands will march, as they have marched since 1973.
But this year, it is different.
This year, the march will take place, for the first time, in an America where Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land.
This is what pro-life Americans have been working toward and praying for all these years. And now we show that our nation is still a nation where dreams come true. And a nation where, despite often losing our way, sooner or later truth returns.
Reading how the Supreme Court’s decision in June of 2022, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is widely reported, we see that many still do not understand what happened in that decision, which ended the Roe v. Wade regime.
Pew Research reports that, in Dobbs, the Supreme Court ruled to “end the constitutional right to abortion.”
National Public Radio reported last June that the court reversed Roe v. Wade, “declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.”
The Dobbs decision was not just about abortion. It was about restoring the way the court should be doing its job.
The court cannot, despite what many in the media seem to think, create or end rights. The court’s job, judicial review, is to apply, not create, reality. That reality is the U.S. Constitution.
The complaint all these years about Roe v. Wade has been that only someone with either a very active imagination or a very active conviction that their personal opinion is more important than what the Constitution actually says could find a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution.
The conservative judges who ruled to overturn that decision did not rule as they did to “end” rights. They did it because nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is there anything written that can be understood to be a right to abortion.
Consider that the preamble of the Constitution explains its purpose “to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” Can anyone believe that the drafter of that passage felt that among those blessings of liberty is a right for a woman to abort her child?
Or consider further that our Constitution, the operating manual for our free nation, had to be amended to make slavery illegal. Is it in any way conceivable that the original language of our Constitution did not prohibit slavery but somehow protected a right to abortion?
With legitimacy to claims that there is a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution gone, now the battleground is in the states.
A major battle has been won, but the war rages on. At this writing, abortion is prohibited in only 13 states.
Pew Research shows that after years of decline in the number of abortions, it ticked back up in 2020 to 930,160.
And, despite all the claims about caring about racial justice in our nation, my organization CURE reports in a new policy briefing, “The Impact of Abortion on the Black Community,” that in 2020, 39.2% of abortions were on Black women, who represent just 14% of the childbearing population.
The data also shows that 86% of abortions are done on unmarried women, which points to the critical link between this destructive behavior and the collapse of marriage and family, the pillars of a healthy society.
I believe that all the many problems that our nation faces begin with absence of awe for the miracle of life. The other side of the coin of the right to life is the responsibility to protect life and responsibility in the behavior that creates life. Reverence is the beginning of responsibility, and responsibility is the beginning point for what freedom is all about.
Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.” To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website.
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Im still at a loss to understand why so many abortions when bc today is virtually 100%effective, as well as being free to those already having a free life. Even if one is pro choice doesn’t it make sense to avoid a medical procedure wherein risk always abides? Any insights would be helpful.
We need these kids to grow up just so they can die after getting shot working making 7 dollars an hour boys lol
Old folks: back in my day if you didn’t work you didn’t eat. What’s this generations excuse?
young folks: In my day I work 2 jobs and I still still Don’t have enough to eat.
I’m for freedom and that includes freedom to have an abortion. The government needs to stay out of these decisions.
Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder.” “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable RIGHTS, that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY and the pursuit of HAPPINESS.” THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE I do not see anything in the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, that says anything about abortion. So, who qualifies to decide to make decisions?
“Exodus: you shall not murder”
Also god: imma kill everyone with a flood lol
The United States is a free country. Americans have many different religions snd opinions about abortion. The government honestly needs to stay out. Too much government is bad bad bad.
Only God can choose from life or death.
Ever heard of birth control? Ever heard of responsibility? You want an abortion you pay for it It’s not an illness
Of course I have, but I value freedom above all else and that includes things that some may not like. I am against the government paying for an abortion.
Millions of aborted babies lost all of their freedoms. But you and others who think like you decide whose freedoms are protected? Doesn’t sound like freedom above all else!
There are literally thousands of couples waiting to adopt a baby while the irresponsible that favor “convenience” over responsibility, because of their personal shame, continue to kill innocent human beings. If you believe in God, what will he say on your judgement day? If you don’t believe in God, it’s easy to see why human life doesn’t matter to you.