{"id":269765,"date":"2022-06-10T18:40:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T23:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269765"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T23:01:46","slug":"killing-for-convenience-robert-bork-cautionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/killing-for-convenience-robert-bork-cautionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing for convenience: Revisiting Judge Robert Bork\u2019s cautionary tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><i>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early May, President Joe Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/04\/pollak-biden-owns-his-role-in-bork-fiasco-launching-americas-judicial-wars\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">boasted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about leading the fight to foil President Ronald Reagan\u2019s 1987 Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork\u2019s ascendence to the High Court. Bork, a Yale Law School professor by profession, was the 35th Solicitor General of the United States (1973 to 1977), and later served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. During his time as Solicitor General, Bork was briefly appointed Acting U.S. Attorney General from October 1973 to January 1974.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Bork\u2019s occupancy on the Supreme Court was pillaged by the then-Senator from Delaware, Bork\u2019s words are perhaps what America needs most right now as \u201ckilling for convenience,\u201d to borrow Bork\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/slouching-towards-gomorrah-modern-liberalism-and-american-decline-robert-bork\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phrase<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has become an insignia of society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the early 2000\u2019s, Bork keenly observed the sacramental view that most Americans traditionally had in regard to human life was steadily beginning to subside. The intentional taking of a recognizable individual\u2019s life had become common place, and an easily accepted practice of the modern world. Such an acceptance has only exasperated in the decades following. For Bork, while individuals engaged in a plethora of daily activities that were known to cause death (driving automobiles, constructing buildings), the conscious choice to quell the life of a human being had never been regarded as a matter of moral indifference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-always-intentional-killing\/\">Let\u2019s be clear: Abortion is always an intentional act of killing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it came to abortion, Bork made sense of the idea by asking two potent questions. First, is abortion always the killing of a human being? If it is, is that killing done simply for convenience? As Bork would <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/1996\/12\/inconvenient-lives\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">say<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the time, \u201cI think there can be no doubt that the answer to the first question is yes; and the answer to the second is almost always.\u201d Also, curious in Bork\u2019s eyes was the repeated narrative of \u201cchoice,\u201d \u201creproductive rights,\u201d and \u201cmedical procedures.\u201d Is this language not relatively odd when describing the act of ending the life of a human-being who has zero \u201cchoice\u201d in the undertaking? Bork witnessed an alteration in how society defines what exactly it means to be a human being, and it was this transformation of society that fretted Bork the most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bork strongly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/1996\/12\/inconvenient-lives\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">objected<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1973) based on Constitutional grounds, believing it to be a fundamental contortion of the Constitution and nothing more than the Supreme Court\u2019s encroachment on us of the morality of our cultural elites. The Constitutional bears <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-rights-constitution-show\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">zero mention<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of abortion, thereby leaving the matter solely in the hands of the American people and their state representatives. However, Bork\u2019s main qualm with the Court\u2019s majority opinion was this newly revisionist attitude toward life and death. Redefining what it means to be a human being will prove hazardous beyond the abortion debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If abortion is looked upon as a constitutional right, Bork predicted that assisted suicide and euthanasia would soon follow. How long until the act of ending an individual\u2019s life would apply to the elderly, or those deemed a burden by society? For example, at this moment, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/euthanasia.procon.org\/states-with-legal-physician-assisted-suicide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ten states<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Washington, D.C., commonly referred to \u201cRight to Die\u201d states, have legalized physician-assisted suicide via legislation. One could forecast that this number will continue to rise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The intentional act of decimating an unborn child, a human being with characteristics and features, reflects a society\u2019s tragic heedlessness to the most innocent among us. If the growing sentiment among the body politic is \u201ckilling for convenience\u201d in the womb, then we should not be surprised when measures are put in place to end the lives of those who are ill, fading, or those who some might deem inconvenient.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps this June the Supreme Court will finally heed Bork\u2019s cautionary tale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bio: J.B. Cohle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a college student.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author. In early May, President Joe Biden boasted about leading the fight to foil President Ronald Reagan\u2019s 1987 Supreme Court nominee Judge Robert H. Bork\u2019s ascendence to the High Court. Bork, a Yale Law School professor by profession, was the 35th Solicitor General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":886,"featured_media":269768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7077,3],"tags":[19,913,17734,144,197],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Killing for convenience: Revisiting Judge Robert Bork\u2019s cautionary tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Judge Robert Bork\u2019s main qualm with Roe was the fact that redefining what it means to be a human being would prove hazardous beyond the abortion debate.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/killing-for-convenience-robert-bork-cautionary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Killing for convenience: Revisiting Judge Robert Bork\u2019s cautionary tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Judge Robert Bork\u2019s main qualm with Roe was the fact that redefining what it means to be a human being would prove hazardous beyond the abortion debate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/killing-for-convenience-robert-bork-cautionary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-10T23:40:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-09T23:01:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-51239451-robert-bork.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"J.B. 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