War on Babies: mission accomplished

Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, there have been 56,662,169 abortions in America.

Source:  http://www.lifenews.com/2014/01/12/56662169-abortions-in-america-since-roe-vs-wade-in-1973/

Roe v. Wade was decided by 7 guys – here are their last names (president who nominated them):

Blackmun (Nixon), Brennan (Ike), Burger (Nixon), Douglas (FDR), Marshall (LBJ), Powell (Nixon), Stewart (Ike)

2 guys dissented – here are their names:

Rehnquist (Nixon), White (JFK)

All men.

Here is some of White’s dissent language –

“I find nothing in the language or history of the Constitution to support the Court's judgment. The Court simply fashions and announces a new constitutional right for pregnant women and, with scarcely any reason or authority for its action, invests that right with sufficient substance to override most existing state abortion statutes. The upshot is that the people and the legislatures of the 50 States are constitutionally disentitled to weigh the relative importance of the continued existence and development of the fetus, on the one hand, against a spectrum of possible impacts on the woman, on the other hand. As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.”

And some from Rehnquist –

“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. As early as 1821, the first state law dealing directly with abortion was enacted by the Connecticut Legislature. By the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, there were at least 36 laws enacted by state or territorial legislatures limiting abortion. While many States have amended or updated their laws, 21 of the laws on the books in 1868 remain in effect today.”

So, there you have it.  Seven men change the face of America; some 40+ years ago - 3 of them Nixon nominees; 2 from Eisenhower.  Even the two dissenters say nothing about a human life – a baby’s life – a tiny being just forming or maybe further along development.  They cite legal mumbo-jumbo; too afraid to face the utter inhumanity of their decision.

Unanticipated collateral damage from this 7/2 decision – the character of America.  It is a difficult challenge to successfully argue the concept of American exceptionalism and abortion which could explain why Obama doesn’t.  It is more difficult to explain the silence of us all about 56,662,169 million aborted human beings.