Fri Jun 17, 2022 – 11:45 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – If the U.S. Supreme Court bumps America’s abortion law-making back to the states, as it should, the conventional wisdom holds that the pro-life side wins.
But think again. The fight for the life of unborn babies doesn’t end with the possible demise of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that declared abortion to be a right. Instead, a critically new stage begins.
Instead of fighting it out before the high court, the struggle would balloon to as many as 50 battlefields in each and every state. That’s not all: in each state there are three branches of government — the executive, legislative and judicial –– where the pro-life agenda can be strangled.
It could get messy—as democracy surely can. The better-funded pro-abortion brigades will contest, as they always do, every commonsense restriction, such as requiring a minor to tell her parents that she’s getting an abortion. Expect that they will try to enact their most extreme demand: elective abortions up to and through the moment of birth, or even apply this astonishing assertion by ethicist Peter Singer – that for twenty-eight days after birth,
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