Life Matters

Relatively few Americans understand the actual nature of abortion law in the United States. Many do know that the Roe v. Wade decision authorized abortion throughout the nation. Still, beyond that, there is mass confusion as to when it is approved, what conditions are legally necessary for the abortion to take place, etc.  Even more specifically, few realize Roe was joined by a companion decision, Doe v. Bolton,  and it is this quiet, unexamined companion decision which authorizes a physician the absolute right to end the child’s life whenever the abortionist feel appropriate. Due to garbled and ideological media coverage, many Americans think that the abortion issue is simply a matter of women’s rights. But so much more was changed by that decision. When the court authorized the ending of that child’s life, for that is what an abortion does, it had to confirm who was to do the killing. Radical feminist groups had demanded the right to have, and even perform abortions at their discretion and at any time in pr