Life Advocacy League

CONTACT: Gregory Quinlan at 513 435-1125


PRESS RELEASE


Pro-Family Network stands unified with other pro-life organizations against the practice of abortion and the lie that a woman's right to privacy gives her the right to terminate the life of her unborn child.

Pro-Family Network is not secretly plotting to make pregnancy mandatory for all fertile females, as the pro-abortion lobby seems to suggest.

The right to abortion is an invention of the court. There is no reference to it anywhere in the Constitution, and it can't be reasonably extrapolated from the principles enshrined in our national charter.

In the history of American jurisprudence, the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision stands out for its utter detachment from the actual language of the Constitution. That clearly explains why 33 years later the American public at large does not accept abortion on demand.

Even legal scholars who favor abortion rights state that Roe v. Wade was the wrong case for abortion on demand. It's easier to come up with attorneys and law professors who will defend the Salem witch trials than to find those attesting that Roe was a sound opinion.

Cass R. Sunstein of the University of Chicago Law School, author of Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America says Roe "way overreached." Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who founded the Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, once admitted that the decision "was difficult to justify."

Edward Lazarus, a former clerk to the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion in Roe said, "As a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, Roe borders on the indefensible. I say this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose."

For nearly two centuries, the courts had no inkling that the framers protected abortion. When the Supreme Court finally discovered the oversight, it didn't get there by applying clear principles or solid precedents, as it usually does in expanding protections. Instead, it took the right of privacy, which is implicitly upheld in various provisions of the Bill of Rights, and stretched it beyong recognition.

HB 228 is good law. HB 228 puts us back to the culture of life we enjoyed for 200 years in the United States. Pro-Family Network urges the Ohio General Assembly to pass HB 228 and Pro-Family Network urges Governor Taft to sign HB 228 into law.