In the infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court made the often overlooked statement in which it refused to recognize the self-evident humanity of the preborn human child: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. ... The judiciary, at this point in the development of man’s knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.”
If, indeed, the Roe Court was correct in shamelessly pronouncing that the U.S. Constitution is silent concerning the rights of the unborn, its only remaining constitutional guidance as to who would still clearly be empowered to define the rights of unborn human beings is the 10th Amendment, which definitively empowers states to act where the Constitution is “silent.”
Since the Roe opinion, the entire human genome has been mapped, and the presence of fully articulated human DNA and the entire human chromosomal structure has been confirmed in the very youngest of preborn children. Using MRI machines and powerful computers, we can now monitor and build 3D-model, real-time images of the preborn child’s beating heart.
We currently do complex surgeries upon the preborn child still in utero, and we use anesthesia during those surgeries because of established knowledge indicating the child has developed the capacity to feel pain no later than halfway through normal gestation.
Boutique clinics with names such as “Meet Your Baby” or “Baby’s Debut” are now appearing in commercial shopping malls utilizing 3D and 4D ultrasound to offer high-resolution DVDs for parents to take home showing the detail of expression on their child’s face and the perfectly formed tiny hands and body. This same technology has also captured the images of preborn children desperately trying in vain to evade surgical instruments in the process of being aborted.
The cruel and unusual punishment of drawing and quartering, for even the most evil of all criminals, was outlawed in this country only two years after America became a nation. Yet in 2021, it’s an immutable fact that helpless late-term, pain-capable, preborn children in America are legally and brutally dismembered alive without anesthesia every day using the common method of abortion called “dilation and extraction.” It happened again today.
Some of them cried and screamed as they died, but because it was amniotic fluid passing over their vocal cords instead of air, we couldn’t hear them.
The suffering of these children is very intimate and very personal. Our knowledge has developed much in the years since Roe v. Wade. We can no longer avoid the humanity of preborn children and the inhumanity of what is being done to them.
Allowing abortion clinics to dismember their little sons and daughters alive doesn’t liberate mothers, it only abandons them to ultimately discover a horrifying truth and an inexpressible loss.
It’s time for another inflection point in America.
For the sake of all of those who founded this nation and dreamed of what America could someday be, and for the sake of all those since then, who have died in darkness so Americans could walk in the light of freedom with that dream still in their hearts: I adjure the U.S. Supreme Court to “take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began,” to deeply consider these little human victims being “trodden on ... degraded and imbruted” by their “fellows”; and to rise above the politically correct and invincible ignorance of the day, to search the Constitution, human history, and their own souls to rediscover the timeless and unspeakably important truth that we all, even the very smallest and most helpless of us all, are still created equal.
