By Paul Sheehan III        

   God bless Texas.  

On May 19, 2021 the newly dubbed “Texas Heartbeat Act” was signed by Governor Gregg Abbot. Immediately, abortion rights activists, Planned Parenthood activists, even the president, voiced their concerns. President Biden expressed dismay, calling the law “unamerican.” Is this law truly “unamerican?” For its opponents, the law is a clear violation of Roe vs. Wade, restricting access to abortion. The law sets barriers of access to abortion, fining doctors up to $10,000, who perform an abortion. Planned Parenthood has since ceased abortion procedures after the law’s implementation in Texas. Frankly the law does violate Roe vs. Wade, so what?  

If Americans truly think abortion is a fundamental right, then pass a Constitutional amendment protecting abortion and it will be ratified, in two thirds of the State legislators. If Americans are divided on the question of abortion (which they are), then let individual states, whether it be Texas, Cailfornia or New York, decide their own abortion laws. In all honesty, the legal judicial ruling of Roe vs. Wade is truly “unamerican.” The idea that a set of judges somehow found in the Constitution of the United States the right to an abortion is downright insane! The justification from Justice Blackburn in opinion reads, “This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment’s concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment’s reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.”  

One truly can wonder whether it be James Madison, while drafting the Bill of Rights, or the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment, which extended civil rights protections to African Americans, if any of them were thinking about abortion? The answer is no! Justice Blackmun was looking for a right to an abortion and so happened to find one. The nature of Roe vs. Wade is constitutional standing is at best shaky and in reality, tyranny. Even if you agree with abortion, the fundamental idea that judges can come up with rights establishes dangerous precedents empowering “unamerican” judicial monarchy, which fails to recognize the separation of powers clause in the Constitution. If you truly think abortion is a fundamental right, then fine, amend the Constitution or pass a law in the legislature, don’t impose a judicial ruling on the people just because you can’t get your way. Our democratic principles of a separation of powers and constitutionality should come before any political activism, whether it be in the judicial, legislative or executive branches. For without our constitution the republic is dead.  

In the times of Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton, the people rose in revolution, overthrowing an oppressive monarchy, which perturbed their God given rights. So as our forefathers did, we must overthrow this new monarchy, which rather than interpreting the law makes the law. Laws such as these bring us one step closer to destroying the judicial monarchy and bring decisions back to the people. If the nation agrees on abortion or against then let our elected Congress men decide abortion. If we Americans can’t decide then each state’s elected legislature should decide its own laws. As the constitution says, “WE THE PEOPLE.”