Dobbs: SCOTUS Was Right to Rip The Bandage Off

 Michael Brown at Townhall.com today has an article asking From A Practical Pro-Life Perspective, Was The Overturning of Roe A Good Thing? I will tell you right now that you should read the whole article, but he answers his own question in the afirmative. So, what causes the question in the first place? Michael has been reading people who think it may have been better for our current political situation had the SCOTUS taken a more incrimental approach.

It could be argued that a more incremental approach to the overturning of Roe might have been better than its dramatic overturning in June. After all, some might say, the Court could have made a series of incremental decisions, beginning with letting the Dobbs case stand, thereby triggering a less extreme reaction from the pro-abortion side. As it is, the pro-abortion pushback has been intense and costly.

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Here are 5 reasons why that line of thinking is deeply flawed.

The very first reason mentioned above is the most important, namely that the original decision was bad law, and it should have been overturned long ago. It is bad law because there was never any Constitutional basis for it. It simply is not in the powers listed in the Constitution for either the SCOTUS or for the Congress to deal with abortion. Rather, it is up to each state to regulate abortion.

First, Roe was bad law from the start, made even worse by the reaffirmation and expansion of Casey in 1992. Both of these cases were decided poorly – no, outrageously – and the sooner an egregious law can be overturned, the better. All the more is this the case when that law has given the appearance of legality to the shedding of oceans of innocent blood.

Then there is the moral issue. Overturning Roe saves babies. It is unfortunate that this comes in as number 5, but it reflects on our poor degraded society. It is also interesting that overturning Roe is probably saving more black and brown babies than white ones, because those are the largest number babies aborted before Roe was overturned. But you will never hear race hustlers cheering this decision. Please go read the whole article though.