{"id":258260,"date":"2021-12-04T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258260"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T01:09:09","slug":"pelosi-challenge-roe-dark-motherhood-catholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pelosi-challenge-roe-dark-motherhood-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi calls challenge to Roe a ‘dark day’ while touting her own motherhood and Catholic faith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the wake of the Supreme Court arguments in the Dobbs v. Jackson<\/em>\u00a0Women’s Health Organization<\/em> case, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is invoking her position as a mother of five children and a “practicing Catholic” to back up her pro-abortion stance, while making the argument that if Roe v Wade<\/em> is overturned, the Supreme Court will lose its “legitimacy.”<\/p>\n

On December 1, Pelosi put out a statement<\/a> affirming her pro-abortion stance:<\/p>\n

The constitutional right to an abortion has been repeatedly affirmed, and any failure to fully strike down the Mississippi ban would seriously erode the legitimacy of the Court, as the Court itself warned in its ruling in\u00a0Casey, and question its commitment to the rule of law itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Should the Supreme Court choose to overturn Roe<\/em> and its follow-up case, Planned Parenthood v Casey<\/em>, it would hardly mean the court is less legitimate; instead, it would only overturn a ruling that was itself based on faulty logic. As Live Action President and Founder Lila Rose explains in the following video, the legal foundation for the Roe<\/em> case was based on shaky ground. In writing the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun said that the ‘right to abortion’ was covered under a woman’s “right to privacy.”<\/p>\n

Rose further explains how the right to privacy has an even weaker and more bizarre constitutional foundation based on an earlier case, Griswold v. Connecticut<\/em>, which states that “penumbras formed by emanations” recognize the right of privacy of married couples to obtain contraception. In twisting this unusual wording, the Supreme Court Justices somehow decided it was constitutionally legal to kill a child in the womb because it is a “private” matter.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Children don\u2019t keep women from achieving their dreams. Amy Coney Barrett is proof of this.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n