Judge Roy Moore and Foundation for Moral Law Welcome the Supreme Court's Decision to Uphold Ban on Partial-Birth Abortions, But Note Flawed Reasoning
April 18, 2007
Judge Roy Moore and the Foundation for Moral Law agreed with the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision today in Gonzales v. Carhart to uphold the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act that had been struck down by lower federal courts, but noted that the majority's opinion is based on the flawed and unconstitutional reasoning of the Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision and other judicial inventions and not the Constitution itself.
Judge Moore said, “I agree with the Act passed by the U.S. Congress that partial birth abortion is a gruesome and inhumane procedure that is never medically necessary and should be prohibited. Our brief before the U.S. Supreme Court stated that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals was simply wrong to declare this Act of Congress unconstitutional. We are pleased that the Supreme Court has taken a step in the right direction and look forward to the day when Roe v. Wade is completely overturned and the life of all unborn children is preserved in accordance with our Constitution.”
As the Foundation argued in its amicus curiae brief filed in the Gonzales case, the Constitution does not protect the right of a mother to take the life of her child, which means Casey, Roe v. Wade, and all the other pro-abortion decisions should be discarded. Moreover, the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause gives Congress the authority to ban partial birth abortions because so long as states make murder illegal, all children, whether born, unborn, or in the process of being born, ought to have an equal right to life under the law.
The Foundation for Moral Law, a national non-profit legal organization, is located in Montgomery, Alabama, and is dedicated to restoring the knowledge of God in law and government through two methods: Litigation relating to moral issues and religious liberty cases; and Education consisting of forums for the public and pastors' seminars.
For more information about the Foundation for Moral Law, please visit www.morallaw.org.
