ROE, A FLASHBACK
Kathryn Jean Lopez
The Corner
NR on the 25th anniversary:
Everything abortion touches, it corrupts. It has
corrupted family life. In the war between the sexes,
abortion tilts the playing field toward predatory males,
giving them another excuse for abandoning their
offspring: She chose to carry the child; let her pay for
her choice. Our law now says, in effect, that fatherhood
has no meaning, and we are shocked that some men have
learned that lesson too well. It has corrupted the
Supreme Court, which has protected the abortion license
even while tacitly admitting its lack of constitutional
grounding. If the courts can invent such a right,
unmoored in the text, tradition, or logic of the
Constitution, then they can do almost anything; and so
they have done. The law on everything from free speech to
biotechnology has been distorted to accommodate
abortionism. And abortion has deeply corrupted the
practice of medicine, transforming healers into killers.
Most of all, perhaps, it has corrupted liberalism.
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