Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case Declaring Unborn Babies Have a Right to Life

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case Declaring Unborn Babies Have a Right to Life by Steven Ertelt for Life News

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case from Rhode Island about whether unborn babies have a right to life.

For almost 50 years since Roe, pro-life groups have made the case that unborn children have a right to life under the 14th Amendment, with the hope that the Supreme Court would someday recognize that right.

This is the first major case following the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade that the nation’s highest court could have considered. Forbes has more on the case the SCOTUS decision to not take it up this term:

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The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not take up Jane Doe et al. v. McKee, a case brought by two parents on behalf of their unborn children and the organization Catholics for Life against Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee (D) and the state’s government.

The lawsuit challenged Rhode Island’s law that upholds abortion rights and argues that fetuses and embryos, regardless of their gestational age, are entitled to due process and equal protection rights under the Constitution.

The anti-abortion challengers asked the court to take up the case in light of its June ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the federal right to an abortion, noting the 6-3 conservative court avoided answering in that decision whether fetuses have any rights themselves.

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Petitioners brought the case after it was dismissed in a lower state court and the Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed that ruling, finding the plaintiffs did not have standing to bring the case because fetuses do not have due process rights under the Constitution.

“As s this Court held in Dobbs, abortion laws are different from all others. Do unborn human beings, at any gestational age, have any rights under the United States Constitution?” the challengers asked in their petition to the Supreme Court. “Or, has Dobbs relegated all unborn human beings to the status of persona non grata in the eyes of the United States Constitution – below corporations and other fictitious entities?”

The Fourteenth Amendment says that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Pro-Life advocates have long argued that, because an unborn baby is a human being starting at conception, that the amendment should include their right to life.

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