By Judie Brown
The United States Supreme Court is the last bastion of justice when it comes to legal questions up for debate. But as a mere body of human beings, these nine individuals are flawed because they are human. Thus, many of their decisions are equally imperfect.
In matters of human sexuality and procreation, the court has had a penchant for error ever since the Griswold v. Connecticut decision in 1965. In that case the right to contraception was granted to married couples. In 1972 the court, in Eisenstadt v. Baird, expanded the right to contraception to include unmarried couples. And of course, in January of 1973 they swept away all hope of human rights for preborn children by opening wide the doors to decriminalized abortion.
Today, 53 years after Roe, a different set of justices is carrying on the same injustices perpetrated against the most innocent people in God’s universe, the preborn. But their action is perhaps the evilest of all since they have literally preserved the ability to kill babies with pills delivered through the mail, allowing clandestine killing in the privacy of the home. By preserving the availability of telehealth abortion consultations that result in the mailing of these deadly pessaries, the court has sent a signal that abortion by pill, described by some as a “tricky issue,” is a hot potato.
The bottom line is that when it comes to procreation and the resulting human beings, the laws of nature are not bound by justices any more than they are bound by human desires to fornicate without accepting the consequences. Procreation is the province of God alone, but in hedonistic societies like ours, nobody cares. Thus, the body count rises in the shadows, under the radar and in the back alleys of our land.
This is why, like a broken record, we insist on legal recognition of preborn children as human beings. In fact, one proposed human personhood constitutional amendment sets forth as its purpose “to establish that legal personhood is granted to all human beings in the United States from the beginning of their biological development.”
Without such a specific constitutional statement such as this, the decriminalized killing will continue. That is because the court continues in PAC-MAN mode to chomp away at facts in an onslaught to advance the deadly agenda that advocates death to embryonic people.
Even as women are dying during abortions, women are celebrating the use of the abortion pill, and others are telling us that our pet dogs are human beings, it seems that mental numbness has overtaken the citizenry. The din of screaming abortion rights fanatics has nearly silenced the voices of those who should be shouting from the rooftops for equal justice for all, born and preborn.
So, when we suggest that we are supremely disappointed in the justices who sit on the Supreme Court, we must underscore the obvious fact that these men and women are simply reflecting the tenor of the debate among the citizens of this nation. Even after all these years, all the medical advances, all the articulate heroes such as Mildred F. Jefferson, MD, Bernard Nathanson, MD, John Willke, MD, and his wife Barbara, average American citizens continue unaffected as the bodies of the innocent continue to amass.
That, my friends, is the real supreme disappointment. Yet we continue to insist that the truth be told, emulating the profound words of Saint Paul to the Corinthians: “We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.”
Jesus, help us!