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The Alabama Abortion Ban Law
Podcast 66
On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed what many consider the United States strictest abortion law, which makes any physician performing an abortion guilty of a felony in almost all cases in the state of Alabama. The exception would be when a pregnancy poses “…a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.” This law will test Roe v. Wade where justices used the 14th Amendment to justify abortion.
The Alabama abortion law has sparked a national debate. Before we get into this I want to give you a surreal statistic. Since Roe v. Wade, there have been over 60 million abortions. Roughly 21% of pregnancies in America end in Abortion. Approximately 2,538 human beings lose their lives to abortion each day in the United States.
This law in Alabama has caused a massive wave of arguments on both pro-life and pro-choice sides. This is following the so-called “sex strike” that has been pushed by Hollywood leftist over the state of Georgia’s heartbeat bill. Pro-life groups have celebrated the Alabama bill while those in the pro-choice champ have lost their minds. So how did we get to this point?
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
According to our founders, the first unalienable Right is Life. This was concrete in our country until January 22, 1973. On that day in history, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that abortion is protected by the constitution citing the 14th amendment. Is this the case, however, did the 14th Amendment protect abortion?
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in the legislative process and were amalgamated into a single amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. 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.”
So how does this give the right to abortion?
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By David Lamar MarksPodcast 66
On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed what many consider the United States strictest abortion law, which makes any physician performing an abortion guilty of a felony in almost all cases in the state of Alabama. The exception would be when a pregnancy poses “…a serious health risk to the unborn child’s mother.” This law will test Roe v. Wade where justices used the 14th Amendment to justify abortion.
The Alabama abortion law has sparked a national debate. Before we get into this I want to give you a surreal statistic. Since Roe v. Wade, there have been over 60 million abortions. Roughly 21% of pregnancies in America end in Abortion. Approximately 2,538 human beings lose their lives to abortion each day in the United States.
This law in Alabama has caused a massive wave of arguments on both pro-life and pro-choice sides. This is following the so-called “sex strike” that has been pushed by Hollywood leftist over the state of Georgia’s heartbeat bill. Pro-life groups have celebrated the Alabama bill while those in the pro-choice champ have lost their minds. So how did we get to this point?
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
According to our founders, the first unalienable Right is Life. This was concrete in our country until January 22, 1973. On that day in history, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that abortion is protected by the constitution citing the 14th amendment. Is this the case, however, did the 14th Amendment protect abortion?
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment comprises five sections, four of which began in 1866 as separate proposals that stalled in the legislative process and were amalgamated into a single amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. 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.”
So how does this give the right to abortion?