Thought You Should Know

What Roe Actually Does Hold.
AND THE MARCH GOES ON.....AND THE MARCH GOES ON.........

There is so much misunderstanding about what the Roe v. Wade opinion actually holds that I thought it important to at least provide a synopsis of the holding. It is easily googlable- it is all over the web-Justice Blackmun's Opinion, in whole and part.
You are going to hear shouts on the Mall of "overturn Roe" and the like- from people who never read the opinion and do not have the first clue what it actually holds.


First let me tell you what it does not hold: That the US Supreme Court has definitively in this opinion stripped all protections away from the unborn. Nonsense. That is not what the opinion says.

I know it gets better press to sound hysterical, but that is just not what it holds. Do yourself a favor and please read the opinion before the March, especially if you are sporting a megaphone-so you don't look like a total TOOL or illiterate.

Here is what it does hold:

(a) For the stage prior to approximately the end of the first trimester, the abortion decision and its effectuation must be left to the medical judgment of the pregnant woman's attending physician. Pp. 163, 164.

(b) For the stage subsequent to approximately the end of the first trimester, the State, in promoting its interest in the health of the mother, may, if it chooses, regulate the abortion procedure in ways that are reasonably related to maternal health. Pp. 163, 164.

(c) For the stage subsequent to viability the State, in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life, may, if it chooses, regulate, and even proscribe (e.g. PROHIBIT , abortion except where necessary, in appropriate medical judgment, for the preservation of the life or health of the mother. Pp. 163-164; 164-165.

Are you still hysterical? Do you still think your characterization is accurate, because I am here to tell you that it is not.
The concerns balanced were the concern of potentiality for human life to be born post viability balanced with the fact that if a woman's mental or physical health were so compromised by a pregnancy that the pregnancy jeopardized both the woman and the fetus (if the mother died so does automatically the child) there is a balancing permitted in State regulation and prohibition legislation post viability.
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So Should Federal Health Care pay for anyone who wants one? No. Is every abortion done on someone with valid health based reasons? No. Has there been a total abuse of the ability to get abortions? Yes. Have about as many abortions been done since Roe as are uninsured in America? Yes.

So should you still March? Yes. Bundle Up. It's freezing out there.

WE HAVE ABORTED A POPULATION LARGER THAN THE SIZE OF CANADA.

Canada has between 33 and 40 Million people, we have aborted in a generation over 45 Million AMERICANS. We have ABORTED a COUNTRY sized population within our borders.

We are smart enough to figure out how to make it stop.