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This has been my argument since Roe. The failure of the Court to address the scientific reality that the entity in the womb is a human being renders the entire decision suspect. The 5th and 14th...
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Blackmun’s moral logic is an example of the kind of “probablism,” satirized by Pascal in Les Provinciales – an uncertain obligation is certainly not binding and there is no obligation to follow the...
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Patrick Buchanan defined a nation as having borders, a common language (press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish?) and a common culture. We have none of the above. We have abortion in the U.S. because the...
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Post script: It just came to my attention that Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, who is identified as a Catholic, has just introduced legislation to have on-demand abortion up until birth become law in...
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As the Pslamist reminds us "put not your trust in princes." The Supreme Court was seen as heroic during the Civil Rights movement. The Nazgul, our nine masters in black robes, dictate what the law is...
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Just a couple of days ago, I read on the CNA website that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that that unborn children are protected by the state’s chemical endangerment law. For this 40th. Anniversary of...
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Agatha Christie's fictional detective, Poirot, says in one of the novels: "I have a bourgeois attitude toward murder - I disapprove of it." Is it so difficult for the purportedly wise and learned to...
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The key here, as Manfred says, is that people want abortion and so they find a way to make it legal. It is the same with homosexual marriage, pornography, etc. Sex is physically pleasurable, and many...
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Mr Beckwith claims that the reasoning in Roe-v-Wade is irrational in two important respects:- (1) the personhood argument, and (2) the fetal viability argument. On my reading, he doesn't expound them...
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Bain, I think you're missing the point, partly because you're reading Roe like a lawyer. That's not a bad thing by itself, of course. We have to understand and appreciate how courts reason within the...
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Francis, I accept the Church's teaching on abortion without reservation; I agree that the 40th anniversary of Roe-v-Wade ought not to pass unremarked; and I consider the Court had no business...
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It is obvious, Francis, that we are talking past each other, and there is no benefit in that. You refer me to other writings of yours, but I am concerned only with what you have written in these two...
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Francis Beckwith wrote: "What is key to understanding the third is that Blackmun concedes a symmetrical relationship between the right to abortion and the degree to which the fetus is not a...
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Bain Wellington wrote: "To my mind, Justice White's dissenting Opinion is more worth publicising than are the supposed illogicalities of the leading Opinion." Justice White’s opinion is nearly as...
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