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I was especially interested in
your article dealing with legality of Roe v.
Wade (because the Supreme Court overruled the authority of state
legislatures), a subject that never seems to come up in the media.
There are five bills dealing with abortion which have
been filed to
restrict abortion in Missouri. However, the Supreme Court has banned states
from adopting policies that restrict access to abortion.
The editorial page of the Kansas City Star January 22,
written by Albert P.
Mauro, board chairman of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri
writes: "President Bush, if given the opportunity, is expected to nominate
at least one Supreme Court justice with the open goal of overturning Roe.
Federal and state legislatures continue regular attacks on abortion, raising
new objectionable restrictions that insult women and that make abortions
increasingly difficult to obtain." Note the words: "attacks,"
"objectionable" and "insult."
However, Joey Davis, state director of Concerned Women for
America of
Missouri, writes "Thirty years ago, in Roe v. Wade, there was no examination
of human biological life. In fact, Justice Harry Blackmun wrote, 'We need
not resolve the difficult question of when life begins.' However, this was
exactly the question the Supreme court needed to take into consideration.
Thanks to technology, now the active unborn child can now be clearly viewed
on a screen and a detailed photo made. According to Time magazine, 'It is
now possible to 'peer into the developmental process at virtually every stage
from the fusion of sperm and egg to the emergence, some 40 weeks later, of a
miniature human being.' This should be the final proof that unborn babies
are not "potential" life, but existing human life with a right to live, which
must be protected by our laws."
I believe that, not only did the Supreme Court overrule
the state
legislatures in Roe v. Wade, as stated in the Jefferson Review, but that
technology has proven that the Supreme Court should also take a second look at
the now-documented truth that life begins at conception.
Carolyn Camoriano
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