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A recent report<\/a> from the Charlotte Lozier Institute outlines a possible route to having the Supreme Court weigh in on pro-life legislation banning discriminatory, eugenic abortions.<\/p>\n

Written by Thomas M. Messner, a senior fellow with the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, the report rightly argues that Roe v. Wade, <\/em>the Supreme Court decision that legalized elective abortion in all 50 states, and a subsequent abortion case, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, <\/em>are unsound law that should be overturned. At this time, there is no direct legal challenge to Roe <\/em>or Casey <\/em>that the Court would consider. Messner argues, \u201cIn the meantime, in the same way that an employer has the right to terminate employment \u2018at will\u2019 but not for prohibited reasons such as an employee\u2019s race, sex, or disability, federal courts should hold that the general right to abortion declared in\u00a0Roe<\/em>\u00a0and affirmed in\u00a0Casey<\/em>\u00a0does not include decisions to terminate pregnancy on the ground that the child has Down syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Biotech firm: Screening to \u2018avoid\u2019 babies with Down syndrome is a \u2018cash cow\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

These considerations are currently being heard in review of the 2017 Ohio law<\/a> banning elective abortion on babies with Down syndrome. Ohio is not the first state to enact such a ban. A challenge to a similar ban in Indiana reached the Supreme Court in 2019, but the Court declined to review it, stating<\/a>, \u201cOnly the Seventh Circuit has thus far addressed this kind of law.\u201d Messner explains<\/a> that if the Sixth Circuit, currently reviewing the Ohio law, rules in favor of the pro-life protections, this \u201cwould create a circuit split\u2014a major factor in obtaining Supreme Court review.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the review of the Ohio law does not result in a positive ruling, other circuit courts are also currently considering similar bans on elective abortion for babies with Down syndrome in Arkansas and Missouri. If the Ohio law does not result in a circuit split, one of these other states\u2019 laws could.<\/p>\n

Even though the Supreme Court did not review the ban on abortions on babies with Down syndrome last year, Justice Clarence Thomas issued a lengthy explanation<\/a> of the need for an eventual review of such law. In his opinion<\/a>, Justice Thomas wrote that \u201c[t]he Court\u2019s decision to allow further percolation should not be interpreted as agreement with the decisions below.\u201d Justice Thomas explained the eugenic history of abortion in the United States and the pressing need for judicial review of measures aimed at preventing discriminatory abortions.<\/p>\n

The ongoing review of laws like Ohio\u2019s may prompt the Supreme Court to make such a review.<\/p>\n

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A recent report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute outlines a possible route to having the Supreme Court weigh in on pro-life legislation banning discriminatory, eugenic abortions. Written by Thomas M. Messner, a senior fellow with the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, the report rightly argues that Roe v. 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