Can Christians Support Legal Exceptions for Abortion? (Part One)
On January 24, 2022 the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) announced it's decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization. Their announcement follows: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” This decision ended, probably permanently, federal protection of the right of a woman to have an abortion without limits or restriction. It left abortion to the discretion of the states in accord with the 9th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This decision came down even though the brief of the decision had been leaked to the media more than a month earlier. The leak which had come from someone in one of the justices' offices gave a prelude to how polarizing this decision would be. The justices' homes were picketed in an a