[Apologetics] Re: Fw: NRLC on death of Chief Justice Rehnquist

[Art Kelly]

Thanks, Michele. It was good to see you at church.

This news release states that the Supreme Court is now
split 6-2 in favor of Roe v. Wade.

The pro-community movement hasn't made much progress
in 32 years, has it?

I believe the purpose of the news release was to say
in effect:

"Look, the pro-lifers are entitled to replace
Rehnquist with another pro-lifer. In doing so, the
pro-abortion forces will still have a comfortable
majority. It won't change the balance of the court.
The pro-abortion majority will still be able to do
anything it wants. So, please let us have a pro-life
replacement for Rehnquist. There should be at least
token pro-life representation on the Court. "

Art

--- Michele A Allen <arochaallen at juno.com> wrote:

> National Right to Life statement
> on the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist 
> 
> What follows is a press release from the National
> Right to Life Committee
> (NRLC) in Washington, D.C., issued on Sunday,
> September 4, 2005, at 12:30
> AM EDT.  For further information, call (202)
> 360-5451, send e-mail to
> legfederal at nrlc.org, or visit the NRLC website at
> http://www.nrlc.org/
> 
> WASHINGTON -- Following the death of Chief Justice
> William Rehnquist
> Saturday evening, the following statement was issued
> by the National
> Right to Life Committee (NRLC) in Washington, D.C.. 
> 
> 
> "Millions of pro-life Americans mourn the death of
> Chief Justice
> Rehnquist," said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas
> Johnson.  "He
> dissented from the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized
> abortion on demand
> in 1973.  He consistently voted to allow elected
> lawmakers to decide when
> and how to protect unborn human life, most recently
> as one of four
> dissenting justices who said that states should be
> allowed to ban
> partial-birth abortion." (Stenberg v. Carhart, 2000)
> 
> Rehnquist was the last remaining member of the
> Supreme Court that handed
> down Roe v. Wade in 1973.  He was one of the two
> dissenters in that case,
> writing that the Court's doctrine on abortion "is
> far more appropriate to
> a legislative judgment than to a judicial one," and,
> "To reach its
> result, the Court necessarily has had to find within
> the scope of the
> Fourteenth Amendment a right that was apparently
> completely unknown to
> the drafters of the Amendment." 
> 
> Rehnquist also dissented when the Court reaffirmed
> Roe in the 1992 case
> of Casey v. Planned Parenthood.  In that dissent, he
> urged that the Court
> abandon Roe and thereby leave the matter in the
> hands of elected
> lawmakers.  He chided the Court plurality for
> justifying the ruling on
> grounds of "stare decisis" (precedent), writing,
> "Our constitutional
> watch does not cease merely because we have spoken
> before on an issue;
> when it becomes clear that a prior constitutional
> interpretation is
> unsound we are obliged to reexamine the question. .
> . . [Otherwise] the
> most outlandish constitutional decision could
> survive forever . . ."
> 
> With Rehnquist's death, the current Supreme Court is
> divided 6 to 2 in
> favor of Roe v. Wade -- that is, in support of the
> doctrine that abortion
> must be allowed for any reason until "viability"
> (about five and one-half
> months), and for "health" reasons (broadly defined)
> even during the final
> three months of pregnancy.  To see a refutation of
> the myth that the
> Court has been divided 5 to 4 on Roe, see the
> analysis by the Annenberg
> Center's FactCheck.org here: 
> http://www.factcheck.org/article176.html
> 
> However, the Court has been divided 5-4 in favor of
> partial-birth
> abortion -- Rehnquist voted to allow states to
> prohibit the method, while
> Justice O'Connor voted to say that Roe v. Wade
> prevented bans on
> partial-birth abortion. (Stenberg v. Carhart, 2000)
> 
> National Right to Life is the nation's largest
> pro-life organization,
> with 50 state affiliates and approximately 3,000
> local affiliates
> nationwide.  NRLC works through legislation and
> education to protect
> those threatened by abortion, infanticide,
> euthanasia, and assisted
> suicide.


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