Kansas Attorney General Sues Governor to Block State-Funded Abortions
19 Aug 2005
The Kansas Board of Education is considering, much to the chagrin of evolutionists and secularists everywhere, teaching intelligent design to children in Kansas schools. On top of this brave stroke, Kansas’ Attorney General, Phill Kline, has just sued Governor Kathleen Sebelius to block state-funded abortions. Kline’s suit is intended to establish under Kansas law that life begins at conception. At last, a politician with the courage to raise the real issue of abortion. Abortion is not about a woman’s right to privacy, but her unborn child’s right to life. If life begins at conception, the debate is over, the unborn child has a constitutional right to life, and abortions should be outlawed.
Before we get too optimistic, we’d do well to remember the words of a late judge whose day shall soon come before the heavenly bar. In the Supreme Court’s infamous Roe v. Wade decision, Justice Harry Blackmum wrote, “The word ‘person’ as used in the 14th amendment [the amendment that forbids depriving a person of their life, liberty and property] does not include the unborn. The unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons in the whole sense.” Blackmum added, “a fetus is not a person but only potential [human] life.” This 1973 majority opinion written by a morally bankrupt Supreme Court Justice, provides legal precedent for today’s courts to continue the dehumanization and slaughter of the unborn as a matter of established law.
The only hope of ending abortion in Kansas or anywhere else in these United States is a constitutional amendment banning abortion, or for the Supreme Court to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision. This explains why liberals make a Supreme Court nominee’s view of Roe v. Wade the acid test for whether or not the nominee is fit to serve on the court. Liberals will stop at nothing and stoop to anything to keep a nominee off the court who has plainly stated his or her opposition to Roe v. Wade. If you doubt this, just consider how the vicious attacks on Judge Robert Bork during his 1987 confirmation hearings added a new verb—“borked”—to our vernacular.
Although liberals scream to the high heavens at the first hint of a Supreme Court nominee’s unwillingness to uphold Roe v. Wade as the settled law of the land, they praise the Supreme Court’s reversal of itself in cases like Lawrence v. Texas. Having ruled in 1986, in Bowers v. Hardwick, that states have the right to outlaw sodomy, the court reversed itself in 2003, in Lawrence v. Texas, ruling that such state laws are unconstitutional because the Constitution guarantees homosexuals the right to commit sodomy. It’s not therefore the overturning of all settled law that liberals find unsettling, but only the overturning of those legal precedents with which they wholeheartedly agree.
In 1856, the Supreme Court ruled, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, that blacks were property and only three-fifths human. This infamous and deplorable decision is believed to have been a key cause of the Civil War, as well as the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled, in Roe v. Wade, that the unborn child is not even three-fifths human; therefore, the unborn have no rights under our Constitution, not even the right to life. This infamous and deplorable decision, like Dred Scott, has divided our nation; however, it is not a civil war that this Supreme Court decision has instigated, but a culture war. We can only hope and pray that it will also lead to a constitutional amendment, one that will once and for all stop the slaughter of the innocents.
Don Walton
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