The U.S. Supreme Court has a checkered past. Here are three horrific mistakes that have been corrected and a fourth which yet cries out: 1823 SCOTUS denied Native Americans the right to own property in order to acquire free land. 1857 SCOTUS decreed black slaves had no rights at all so others could have
The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution states in part, “…[no] State may deprive any person of life…without due process of law; nor deny to any person…the equal protection of the laws.” Abortion became legal in 1973 because the Supreme Court determined that the word “person” in the Fourteenth Amendment does not include the
What does abortion expansion have to do with the New York State budget? Many legislators are asking that question. Governor Cuomo knows that a stand-alone abortion expansion bill is very unpopular in a State with the most permissive abortion laws in the world next to North Korea. So in 2013, Governor Cuomo attempted abortion
Can a government force dissenting people to carry the water of its new moral agenda? California is trying. They passed a law requiring all pro-life clinics to tell patients where they can get an abortion. 130 pregnancy clinics insist the mandate violates the healing purpose of medicine, that all humans, including the preborn ones,
Trump’s election is causing many liberal States to enact new pro-abortion legislation. Their fear is the Trump administration will gut a woman’s right to abortion. The extreme zeal of some State governments to protect abortion is so fundamentalist that many in power are willing to force people of contrary religious views to participate in
Last September New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, insisted current state law leaves the abortion door open through all nine months of pregnancy. Yet now he is promoting radical abortion expansion legislation which he contends merely codifies Federal law. This raises three questions: Since the Supreme Court rulings of 1973 conceded a state’s right
The world’s leading abortion business, Planned Parenthood, announced that their president, Cecile Richards, is resigning. The monolithic non-profit gulps more than half a billion in Federal tax money annually. However, since 2015 they have been mired in the mud of scandal, after being caught illegally profiteering in aborted baby body parts. Richards has shared
Why does Governor Cuomo’s bloated 168.2 Billion dollar budget proposal include seemingly unrelated pet projects? One such peripheral mandates all health insurance plans cover abortion and abortion-causing birth control. Supporting budgetary documentation stresses, “…the Governor has taken action…to cover contraceptive drugs and devices and…abortion services without co-pays, coinsurance, or deductibles.” The documentation demonstrates his
Approximately 18,000 abortions annually are perpetrated on babies past 20 weeks in the U.S. A bill was introduced banning these late abortions due to the barbaric pain inflicted on babies by the abortion process. President Trump vowed to sign it. However, the measure failed after 46 Senators junked it January 29. President Trump aired his
“…the breast cancer epidemic is due to preventable factors,” concludes a recent literature review. Two undisputed factors for preventing breast cancer are 1) a first full term pregnancy earlier in life and 2) increasing the duration of breast feeding. A third major factor for reducing a woman’s risk of breast cancer has emerged: Not
