Killing Babies
By ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO In one week during January 1973, President Richard M. Nixon was inaugurated to his second term, former President Lyndon B. Johnson died, the United States and North Vietnam entered into the Paris Peace Accords, and the Supreme Court legalized abortion. Only the last of these events continues to affect and haunt the moral and constitutional order every minute of every day. The court’s decision in Roe v. Wade is arguably its most controversial in the post-World War II era. Its effect has been as pernicious to human life as was its 19th-century intellectual progenitor, Dred Scott v. Sanford, in which the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans are not persons. Roe declares that the states may not…Continue Reading