Wed Feb 8, 2023 – 5:01 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal district judge recently issued a court order suggesting that the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution may ensure a “right” to abortion, even though a federal court has previously said that the argument “borders on the frivolous.”
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly argued that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization only determined that the Fourteenth Amendment did not ensure women’s access to abortion, but that other sections of the Constitution may support a “right” to kill the unborn.
The order comes in response to pro-life activist Lauren Handy’s “motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction” in a case which charged nine pro-lifers with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
“In part, Defendant [Handy] moves to dismiss the Superseding Indictment based on the Supreme Court’s statement in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org., that ‘the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion’,” the order states. “As a threshold matter, and without the benefit of full briefing, it appears that Defendant’s constitutional argument is predicated on the false legal premise that the predicate statute at issue in
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