“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you….” -Jeremiah 1:5
On Friday, January 11, 2012, the Alabama Supreme Court of the State of Alabama made a ruling directly challenging the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade 40 years ago.
As reported by John-Henry Westen for LifeSiteNews, in a case brought by Amanda Kimbrough who admitted to smoking meth three days before the premature birth of her son 25-weeks-old Timmy, who died 19 minutes after birth from “accute methamphetamine intoxication,” the Alabama Supreme Court rules:
“The decision of this Court today is in keeping with the widespread legal recognition that unborn children are persons with rights that should be protected by law.
Today, the only major area in which unborn children are denied legal protection is abortion, and that denial is only because of the dictates of Roe.
Furthermore, the decision in the present cases is consistent with the Declaration of Rights in the Alabama Constitution, which states that ‘all men are equally free and independent; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.’”
The case, Ankrom v. State of Alabama, involved the consolidation of two cases, which addressed the question of whether Alabama’s law against chemical endangerment of children can be applied to unborn children who are exposed to illegal drugs in utero. Courts of appeal in Alabama have upheld convictions of mothers who were charged under the chemical endangerment law, when their children tested positive for illegal drugs at birth.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange welcomed the ruling in a statement: “The Court has ratified our argument that the public policy of our state is to protect life, both born and unborn. It is a tremendous victory that the Alabama Supreme Court has affirmed the value of all life, including those of unborn children whose lives are among the most vulnerable of all.”
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, which had filed a brief in the case, said Liberty Counsel “applauds” the decision:
“In personal injury, criminal, and wills and estate law, the trend has been to recognize the unborn child as a human with legal protections, not merely a ‘potential’ human being. The U.S. Supreme Court’s abortion cases are an aberration to law and stand on an island by themselves, and that island will one day disappear.”
Liberty Counsel’s brief in the case provided the Alabama Supreme Court with a historical review of legal protection for unborn children, dating from ancient Greece to the present day, which points out that common law in England and the United States, with support from the medical and legal professions, had recognized that “[l]ife is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb.”
This understanding remained the prevailing view in the United States through the middle of the 20th Century, when a societal shift prompted a “liberalization” of criminal laws, including restrictions against abortion, culminating in the abortion cases, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. In those cases the Supreme Court held that unborn children are not “persons” protected by the right to life set forth in the Constitution.
Even the doctors who perform abortions recognize that the “fetus” they kill actually is human life. Here are some revealing quotes:
- “They [the women] are never allowed to look at the ultrasound because we knew that if they so much as heard the heart beat, they wouldn’t want to have an abortion.” –Dr. Randall, former abortionist
- “Even now I feel a little peculiar about it, because as a physician I was trained to conserve life, and here I am destroying it.” -Dr. Benjamin Kalish, abortionist
- “You have to become a bit schizophrenic. In one room, you encourage the patient that the slight irregularity in the fetal heart is not important, that she is going to have a fine, healthy baby. Then, in the next room you assure another woman, on whom you just did a saline abortion, that it is a good thing that the heartbeat is already irregular… she has nothing to worry about, she will NOT have a live baby… All of a sudden one noticed that at the time of the saline infusion there was a lot of activity in the uterus. That’s not fluid currents. That’s obviously the fetus being distressed by swallowing the concentrated salt solution and kicking violently and that’s to all intents and purposes, the death trauma… somebody has to do it, and unfortunately we are the executioners in this instance.” -Dr. John Szenes, abortionist
- “I got to where I couldn’t stand to look at the little bodies anymore.” – Dr. Beverly McMillan, former abortionist
- “Sorrow, quite apart from the sense of shame, is exhibited in some way by virtually every woman for whom I performed an abortion, and that’s 20,000 as of 1995. The sorrow is revealed by the fact that most women cry at some point during the experience… The grieving process may last from several days to several years… Grief is sometimes delayed… The grief may lie sublimated and dormant for years.” – Dr. Susan Poppema, abortionist
- “We know that it’s killing, but the state permits killing under certain circumstances.” – Dr. Neville Sender, abortionist
Meanwhile, despite a new poll finding that 83% of Americans — more than 4 of every 5 — favor significant limitations on what is now essentially abortion on demand, the slaughter of the innocents continues unabated in the Land of the Free and the Brave.
As William Bigelow reports for Breitbart, in 2011, Planned Parenthood aborted a child every 94 seconds, to a total of 333,964 abortions, supported by $542.4 million in taxpayer dollars.
That figure of 333,964 abortions is 4,519 more than the 329,445 abortions of a year ago, and 17 thousand times the number of precious children who were killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School.
And yet America went into a paroxysm over 20 innocents massacred in Newtown, Connecticut, but no one — certainly not the ravenous headline-chasing Establishment Media — batted an eye over the slaughter of 17 thousands times that number in Planned Parenthood “health care clinics” across America.
In America today, hundreds attended a candlelight vigil for the death of an elk in Boulder, Colorado — a city with one of the country’s most notorious late-term abortion facilities, run by Dr. Warren Hern, who wrote the first medical textbook on abortion procedures after the Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. In another of his written published works, the good doctor describes the human race as a “malignant eco-tumor” destroying the earth.
Go figure.
H/t FOTM’s Stephanie O. and Anon
~Eowyn
