Abortion
I’m going to try and break down how we got here as simply as I can by explaining the 14th amendment and how a Justice named Harry Blackmun perverted the constitution to protect the rights of doctors, that’s right, the original intent of Roe v Wade was to protect doctors not women.
Let’s start in the 1600’s where abortion was legal and had no restrictions. Between the 1600’s up until the 1800’s abortion was so common it was advertised and sold as home kits. The problem with this idea was that it was very dangerous to women and many died by getting butcher jobs by either themselves or others so in the late 1800 abortion was banned and the 14th amendment was brought to life. The irony here is the 14th amendment would eventually become the main reason for Roe v Wade.
What is the 14th amendment; "no State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
While the 14th was intended to give equal rights to black citizens, it was also intended to protect the rights of everyone equally under the law. One of the provisions of the 14th amendment is “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.” The word privacy is what Justice Harry Blackburn used to argue his opinion of why women should be able to abort their babies without any interference.
Roe v Wade
Norma McCorvey, the Roe of Roe v Wade, was a poor alcoholic drug addict who found herself pregnant with her third child, having given up the first two for adoption. She didn’t want to go through with the pregnancy but at the time she lived in Texas and abortion was illegal except to save the life of the mother. She was tossed from person to person until she ended up on the door step of two lawyers named Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, both were advocates for women’s reproductive rights.
The long and short of it is they saw an opportunity with McCorvey to get the issue of abortion, which at the time was handled at the state level, brought to the Supreme Court and declared a right of woman, under the notion that the word privacy in the 14th amendment, meant that women had the right to abort their babies and it was no one’s business except theirs.
Justice Blackmun’s first approach was to argue the rights of doctors who performed abortions, to be protected from malpractice suits if the abortion didn’t go well but that was scraped and changed to women had the right to privacy and this included abortion, although nowhere in the constitution does it even hint that this was what was meant by “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence”.
One the dissenting judges, Justice White wrote: “I find nothing in the language or history of the constitution to support the Court’s judgement...in my view, its judgement is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review.”
Perhaps planned, January 22, 1973 was decision day. It was also the day former President Lyndon Johnson died, and that turned out to be the bigger story. Is this another example of how the deep state actors timed the passage of Roe v Wade with the death of Lyndon Johnson to distract from the impact of such a decision?
Very enlightening Quinn! I didn't know a lot of that. Love it!
Great history lesson Quinn!