Abortion and the high court
The Supreme Court won’t hear the Doe v. Bolton abortion appeal after all, turning it down yesterday without comment. Sandra Cano, who was “Mary Doe” in the original case, wanted it heard and overturned. Doe was the companion case to Roe.
While the “Roe” opinion grounded first-trimester access to abortion in a constitutional right to privacy, Doe v. Bolton loosened medical requirements for those seeking to terminate a pregnancy.
Cano stated in her appeal that she had never wanted an abortion in the first place, had been living in an abusive relationship, and had been forced by her attorney to fight the abortion option in court.
The high court several years ago rejected a similar legal appeal from Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade. McCorvey, a resident of Texas, also sought to overturn the case that gave her the right to an abortion.
She was ‘used’ by the abortion activists as well. Isn’t it interesting how little we hear about these two pivotol figures in any mainstream media? Did you know that Norma McCorvey converted to the Catholic faith and has worked actively in the pro-life movement for many years? Of course you did. InForum readers are really smart.
Now how about this…
Next month, the justices will hear an important abortion appeal dealing with the federal ban on a late-term procedure critics call “partial birth.” Three federal appeals courts have ruled the ban unconstitutional because it does not include a health exception to protect pregnant woman who suffer a medical emergency.
Two things, working backwards. There’s ample expert testimony out there these days that partial birth abortions are never needed to protect the life of the mother. And that line “a late-term procedure critics call ‘partial birth’,” always raises a question for me. If that’s what its critics call it, what do proponents of partial birth abortion call it?
“A late-term procedure” is patently ridiculous. The child is partially delivered and outside the mother’s womb. Moments later, it would be called outright infanticide. Because it is.
