{"id":218718,"date":"2020-02-19T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=218718"},"modified":"2020-02-20T19:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T01:59:57","slug":"pro-life-replies-abortion-constitutional-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-replies-abortion-constitutional-right\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Pro-Life Replies counters the claim, ‘Abortion is a constitutional right’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The latest video<\/a> in Live Action\u2019s \u201cPro-Life Replies\u201d<\/a> series counters the claim, “Abortion is a constitutional right.” In this video, Josh Craddock, former editor in chief of the Harvard Journal of Law\u00a0and Affiliated Scholar at the James Wilson Institute, describes just a few reasons why Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0— the decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States — was wrongly decided.<\/p>\n

In the video, Craddock points out that Justice Harry Blackmun, who wrote the majority opinion in Roe<\/em>, admitted that if prenatal \u201cpersonhood” could be established, then children in the womb would be “guaranteed” the right to life by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment was put in place after the Civil War to make sure that human beings would not be deprived of “life,\u00a0liberty, or property, without due process of law” and guaranteed “equal protection under the law” for everyone. Craddock says that, for three reasons, the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections should apply to human beings in the womb:<\/p>\n