This past Wednesday, December 1st the Supreme Court heard the oral arguments for the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. What the Justices will have to decide is whether a ban on abortion after the fifteenth week of pregnancy is Constitutional and consequently whether abortion bans prior to viability are permissible.
What’s appealing about this case is that it has the potential to completely overturn Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood. The ruling in Roe essentially prevents states from enacting laws that ban abortion prior to viability or the point when a preborn baby can survive without the help of mom’s womb. Nearly twenty years later, SCOTUS ruled in Casey v. Planned Parenthood that states can regulate abortion prior to viability if it does not provide an “undue burden.”
Thankfully for the pro-life side, arguments could not have gone better! At one point during the arguments, Justice Sotomayor compared a preborn baby to a dead body. She said, “literature is filled with episodes of people who are completely and utterly brain dead responding to stimuli… There’s about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil. There are spontaneous acts by dead brain people. So I don’t think that a response to — by a fetus necessarily proves that there’s a sensation of pain or that there’s consciousness.” It appears that Sotomayer believes a preborn baby is not alive until he or she is born. To summarize this ridiculous view of life, Justice Sotomayor said “that the idea that a fetus is a human life is a “religious view.”’
In this week’s episode of “Engage with Eagle Forum,” hosts Tabitha Walter and Kirsten Hasler spoke with Family Policy Alliance’s Autumn Leva about Dobbs. She explains the many misnomers of the abortion argument since Roe and what life will look like if Roe is overturned. So, if you’ve ever wondered whether women have a constitutional “right to abortion,” you must listen take a listen to “Overturning Roe v. Wade.”
