{"id":272725,"date":"2022-07-19T14:38:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=272725"},"modified":"2022-07-19T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:58:17","slug":"dobbs-true-justice-preborn-humans-philosopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dobbs-true-justice-preborn-humans-philosopher\/","title":{"rendered":"Dobbs decision did not bring true justice for preborn humans, says pro-life philosopher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an op-ed for the Daily Wire<\/a>, theologian and philosopher Marcel Guarnizo addressed the pro-life movement’s apparent confusion over the meaning of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> Supreme Court decision, which overturned the longstanding Roe v. Wade<\/em> and Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em> decisions.<\/p>\n

According to Guarnizo, while the Dobbs decision is “clearly good news and a sign of progress,” it did not confer the right to life for preborn human beings, nor did it halt persons in power from arbitrarily deciding who lives and who dies, as many pro-life leaders and Catholic Church officials have erroneously claimed. Guarnizo points out three key errors in the Dobbs decision, and also discusses the need for greater boldness among lawmakers who claim to be pro-life.<\/p>\n

First, Guarnizo notes that despite claims by certain Catholic leaders, Dobbs did not<\/em> confer any right to life upon the preborn. He writes:<\/p>\n

The Dobbs decision states exactly the contrary: \u201cOur opinion is not based on any view about if and when prenatal life is entitled to any of the rights enjoyed after birth.\u201d Here the Court proclaimed that they are not affirming that babies in the womb have any rights, nor did they state when, if at all, they possess such rights or even that their rights are to be perceived from the decision to be equal to the rights enjoyed after being born.<\/em><\/p>\n

He adds that “Alito and company do not affirm that a right to life exists or that the child in the womb has equal rights to any of us after birth. The decision makes no moral, philosophical or scientific claims about the child\u2019s status or necessary legal protections.”<\/p>\n

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Guarnizo secondarily notes that the Dobbs<\/em> decision actually reinforced the idea that government and\/or elected officials may decide who lives and who dies, when it comes to preborn human beings, adding that there is no legitimate right that allows the homicide of certain humans (abortion). He writes (emphasis original) that the Court decision:<\/p>\n

… repeatedly stated, \u201c\u2026 the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives\u2026\u201d And yet again, promptly forgetting that there is no such thing as an abortion right, they falsely affirmed, \u201c\u2026the people of the various states may evaluate those interests differently. In some states, voters may believe that the abortion right\u00a0<\/strong>should be even more extensive that the right that Roe and Casey recognized<\/strong>\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This vacuous mantra of the Dobbs decision again affirms the lethal error that gave us Roe and Casey. The Alito reasoning incorrectly affirms that a rightful authority exists that can decide which innocent babies will live or die… <\/em><\/p>\n

This, he says, “is contrary to a sound view of reality, a proper understanding of justice, and a sound pro-life creed which holds that no one has the right to sanction the death of the child in the womb \u2013 not the Courts, the states, or the people,” but adds that this realization “seems to\u00a0escape a vast majority in the pro-life movement.”<\/p>\n

In the same vein, Live Action News previously noted<\/a>, “Preborn children deserve protection from homicide, not a passing of the buck from the Supreme Court to state legislators about who regulates which preborn humans are allowed to be murdered at what ages of gestation.”<\/p>\n