Wall Street Journal Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Roe by Micaiah Bilger for Life News
GNN Note – Did I wake up in an alternate universe? The WSJ is now Pro-Life!?! Please don’t misunderstand, I’m very grateful, but it just seems..a little…out of character…perhaps desperation on the part of the democrats to make such an unbelievably bold move. / END
The Wall Street Journal published a strong editorial Tuesday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow voters to protect unborn babies’ lives again.
The newspaper editors said the court has an excellent opportunity through the Mississippi case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health to correct its 1973 abortion ruling and restore the contentious issue to the people.
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“This is the moment for the Justices to turn the issue over to the voters,” the editors wrote.
Since 1973, Roe has forced states to legalize abortions up to viability and allowed abortions up to birth. In December, however, the Supreme Court heard a Mississippi case that directly challenges Roe and later abortion ruling Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
In the Dobbs case, Mississippi lawyers asked the high court to overturn Roe or, at the very least, allow states to protect unborn babies from abortion by 15 weeks, as most other countries do.
The justices are expected to issue a ruling this summer, and many believe the conservative majority will grant Mississippi’s request.
The Wall Street Journal editors said it is long past time that the court restores the issue to the people.
“Far better for the Court to leave the thicket of abortion regulation and return the issue to the states,” the editors wrote. “A political uproar would ensue, but then voters would decide on abortion policy through elections—starting in November. . . . In Dobbs, the Court can say that such a profound moral question should be decided by the people, not by nine unelected judges.”
The editors speculated that pro-abortion lobbying groups are still trying to sway some of the justices, however, through a “ferocious lobbying campaign.”
They also wondered if Chief Justice John Roberts, a Republican appointee who sometimes sides with the leftist justices, may be trying to convince Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to join him in a more narrow ruling that would not completely overturn Roe.
