{"id":253613,"date":"2021-09-17T12:40:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=253613"},"modified":"2021-09-17T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T05:26:09","slug":"lets-remind-joe-scarborough-constitution-day-abortion-isnt-constitutional-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lets-remind-joe-scarborough-constitution-day-abortion-isnt-constitutional-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s remind Joe Scarborough on Constitution Day that abortion isn’t a constitutional right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Constitution Day is a celebration of the ratification of one of America\u2019s founding documents, established in 1911 before becoming officially recognized in 2004. It was originally titled \u201cI Am American Day\u201d and later \u201cCitizenship Day\u201d before receiving its official moniker. It is a day to celebrate the signing of the Constitution by the Founding Fathers, reminding Americans of our roots as a nation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it also is a day that shows the ignorance of those who would affirm the wholesale slaughter of the preborn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Case in point: earlier this month, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went on one of his well-known tirades that was originally discussing vaccine mandates, only for him to turn and attack the pro-life movement<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>He erroneously claimed that those who support the Texas Heartbeat Act are opposing a \u201cspecifically enumerated constitutional right.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a tired argument that the pro-abortion movement has tried to make thanks to the wrongful interpretation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, but it shows the ignorance of the pro-abortion activists on the very document that, in fact, guarantees the safety of the preborn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To start, Scarborough seems to misunderstand what the word \u201cenumerated\u201d means. As Hot Air columnist Ed Morrissey points out<\/a>, \u201c\u2018Enumerated\u2019 means a right explicitly stated, such as the right to free speech, the right to keep and bear arms, the right to free expression of religion, and so on.\u201d He explains, \u201cthe word ‘abortion’ has no mention in the document.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite this lack of textual support, the abortion lobby has tried to push this idea following the landmark Supreme Court ruling \u2018Roe v. Wade.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0FACT CHECK: Is abortion an enumerated constitutional right?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Live Action News reported previously<\/a>, \u201cIn 1973, the Supreme Court erroneously ruled in Roe v. Wade that abortion is a constitutional right covered under the right to privacy in the Fourth Amendment. But, as Brian Clowes, Ph.D. pointed out in an article for Human Life International, it takes a loose reading of the Fourth Amendment to find a right to kill. The word ‘privacy’ isn\u2019t even present in the amendment. Clowes wrote, \u2018the Supreme Court literally conjured [the right to abortion] out of thin air.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the Roe v. Wade<\/em> ruling, several courts have used it as a \u201cprecedent\u201d to maintain the legality of abortion as a Constitutional right, but as many in the pro-life movement point out, this is an incorrect interpretation of the Founding document.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Josh Craddock, former editor in chief of the Harvard Journal of Law and Affiliated Scholar at the James Wilson Institute, points out in the video<\/a> \u201cPro-Life Replies: Abortion Is A Constitutional Right\u201d that the Constitution protects the preborn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n