Roe v. Wade Hangs in the Balance

Whoever controls Supreme Court appointments will shape the fabric of the culture, dramatically, for a very long time. ... "Roe v. Wade is at the top of the list'' of what could be immediately at stake in court appointments, Cornell University law professor Michael Dorf says. ... Five justices -- a bare majority that includes the four liberals -- have endorsed the 1973 landmark ruling on abortion. Landmark, because nowhere in the Constitution does any such right exist. Blackmun fabricated it, and even liberal pro-choice judges, lawyers and professors consider it bad law. But it has claimed about 50 million lives since 1973....and counting.

Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. ... However, the reversal of Roe v. Wade represents only one step in the long path toward ending abortion. Once the question is returned to the states, the fight for life will be one of courage and compassion -- the courage of a pregnant mother to bring her child into the world and the compassion of civil society to meet her needs and those of her newborn baby.