By If you haven’t heard by now, Peter Schweizer is one of my favorite authors. I’ve started to read some of his books, I’ve started to research his work, and I continue to find them fascinating and informative.
Its always nice to get some insight into the mind of someone who has been a subject matter expert for so long in his field, and one of my favorites is his book that deals with the legal issue of abortion: How did the courts resolve the debate on abortion since Roe v.
v. Wade when he was in court defending the legality of abortion in 1973. A couple of interesting points from the book: Schweizer argued that the Supreme Court should be revisiting the issue of abortion since its rulings in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992). He believes that Roe v.
Wade was ruled wrong because the state needed to prove that the fetus was truly a human being before the procedure was legal. He also argued that Casey v. Planned because the court ruled that the right of privacy protected a woman from having an abortion if the state is allowed to keep the information about her medical history.
Those are both true arguments. But the Supreme Court in each case was not wrong. In fact, it was right. The Supreme Court did not decide that abortion is not a fundamental right. It simply decided that the state needs a compelling justification to make a decision to force a woman to have an abortion.
The Court in Casey v. Planned did not consider abortion to be a fundamental right. Rather, the court decided that the privacy of a woman’s medical history deserved protection under the Constitution. The right of privacy is not an abstract right. It’s a right that protects the privacy of a woman’s medical history from being used by the government to deny her the opportunity to make the free and informed decision to have an abortion. The Supreme Court did not decide that abortion is a fundamental right.
This is a great quote, especially if you’re pro-choice.
On the other hand, the Supreme Court did decide that it is a fundamental right that a woman has the right to make that decision to have an abortion. But again, it was a woman making the choice, and that is what led to the case.
Well, to be honest, it was the abortion industry that led to the case. There are various ways to argue that the Supreme Court decision was wrong, but the fact is that it was not the abortion industry that decided to deny a woman the right to make the decision to have an abortion. That decision was made by the government, and the government decided that abortion is a fundamental right. That is not a popular opinion (I think I’m right there with you), but it is the truth.
I have read and listened to a few of Peter Schweizer’s books, and I think they are a great read. However, one of the things that is so incredibly annoying is when people tell you how great they are and how they should read these books. I honestly can’t understand how someone can be so proud of an opinion they have never actually read. In my opinion, they should read them.
