Save Babies and Abort Judicial Supremacy
With U.S. judges usurping the power to make or revoke laws — and Congress sitting idly by — it’s time to nullify extra-constitutional judicial supremacy.
Abortion is a rare contentious issue where it appears our nation has moved “right,” rather than leftward, in the last 30 years. This is evidenced by the many states that have recently enacted abortion restrictions — which would more accurately be called prenatal infanticide restrictions — such as “heartbeat” bills. This pro-life shift is good news. Yet federal judges, overstepping their bounds, are wont to strike down pro-life laws and have recently done so. Given this, and that Congress refuses to tame the courts, is it time for states to simply ignore unconstitutional judicial rulings and enforce their duly enacted laws, a phenomenon known as “nullification”?
The prenatal-infanticide battle certainly is heating up. On one side there are states such as Illinois and New York, the latter of which’s euphemistically named Reproductive Health Act became law earlier this year and allows prenatal infanticide up to birth for any reason whatsoever. (Meanwhile, Empire State lawmakers recently passed a ban on cat declawing, with bill advocates calling the procedure “cruel and barbaric … convenience surgery.”) On the other side are states such as Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana, and Kentucky, which have enacted measures banning prenatal infanticide once a heartbeat is detected (six to eight weeks of development); Alabama has gone even further, prohibiting prenatal infanticide at all stages unless the mother’s life is threatened.
The court battles are now heating up, too, with leftist judges proving reliable allies for the culture of death. In May, Judge Carlton Reeves of the Federal District Court in Jackson, Mississippi, an Obama appointee, temporarily blocked his state’s law. It “‘threatens immediate harm to women’s rights’ and ‘prevents a woman’s free choice, which is central to personal dignity and autonomy,’ Judge Reeves wrote in his ruling,” the New York Times related. “‘This injury outweighs any interest the state might have in banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat.’” Really? One may wonder about the actual “injury” suffered by the babies never given a choice and robbed of all their tomorrows.
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