{"id":2195,"date":"2007-01-22T23:20:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T04:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/22\/the-logic-of-roe-is-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2007-01-22T23:20:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T04:20:32","slug":"the-logic-of-roe-is-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/the-logic-of-roe-is-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Logic of Roe is Collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AlbertMohler.com\">Albert Mohler<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court&#8217;s infamous decision legalizing abortion, was the Pearl Harbor of America&#8217;s culture war. It is now clear that a majority of the justices were determined to legalize abortion, and their challenge was to find some constitutional argument in support.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the end, the justices simply invented a new right to privacy that was extended to abortion, even as they admitted that this right is not even mentioned in the Constitution. The majority made fetal viability&#8211;the moment when the fetus can live outside the mother&#8211;as the mark when the state can outlaw abortion. In 1973, that mark was in the third trimester; now, it is well within the second trimester. And further medical advances like an artificial womb may mean that the fetus is viable from the moment of conception.<\/p>\n<p>When that happens, the logic of Roe collapses. That&#8217;s good news&#8211;not only for the fetus, but for all of us. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Mohler Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court&#8217;s infamous decision legalizing abortion, was the Pearl Harbor of America&#8217;s culture war. It is now clear that a majority of the justices were determined to legalize abortion, and their challenge was to find some constitutional argument in support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sanctity-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}