Today we mark a dark day.  One of the darkest ever.  Thirty-seven years ago today, the Supreme Court legalized the murder of the most innocent human beings among us. 

So what is the infamous "Jane Roe" up to these days?


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As hundreds of thousands of people March for Life in Washington (and hundreds of media outlets shamelessly ignore them), I thought it was a good day to revisit a point Nicole made in her guest blog last April.

Roe v. Wade NEVER defines when life begins.  Instead the court took what I have decided to call a "position of non-decision."   From the Roe v. Wade decision: "When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer." ... 

While the court might not have had the info that they needed in 1973 to make a decision on when life begins, it is a different ball game now.   36 years of inquiry leave no doubt.

Case in point:
A few years after Roe (1981) a US Senate judiciary subcommittee received testimony from a collection of medical experts (Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, Report, 97th Congress, 1st Session, 1981)...

After reviewing the testimony, the official Senate report reached this conclusion:   "Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings."

I go back and read the words:  "When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a position to speculate as to the answer."  My thought is this:  At this point in the development of man's knowledge, we do know and is time for Roe v. Wade to be revisited accordingly.  Let the highest court re-debate this, given the info they were lacking 36 years ago.  To decide that abortion is legal because they do not know for sure when life begins is one thing.  To decide it legal with the knowledge that life begins at conception is another.