
Several years ago, Lord Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, spoke at the Humanum colloquium on complementarity at the Vatican.

If you believe the unborn child is living, that life must be protected under the U.S. To overturn it, they say, would create intolerable disruptions. Wade is "settled law" and therefore now intrinsically part of American life.

Perhaps Collins finds taking a position on whether the unborn child is human life, like Obama, above her pay grade.Ĭollins, and others, tell us that Roe v. I ask Collins, is the unborn child, who has a heartbeat and can feel pain, not also an innocent victim? Does Collins not find this violence on life also "contrary to our values in this country"? Collins called this "traumatizing to children, who are innocent victims, and it is contrary to our values in this country."Īt the same time, Collins says she will not support a Supreme Court nominee "who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Recently, Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins expressed dismay at border security policies that separate children from their parents. He was comfortable invoking the blessings of God for the nation's largest abortion provider despite his candor that he has no idea whether abortion means taking human life. President Obama was an aggressive advocate for abortion and was the first sitting president to address the annual meeting of Planned Parenthood, where he concluded his remarks with "God Bless You." Most telling is from then-candidate Barack Obama, who told Pastor Rick Warren, in response to Warren's question, at what point "does a baby get human rights?" that the answer "is above my pay grade." The unborn child is living and must be protected. The "pro-life" movement is clear on this. If yes, they must be protected, like all life. Legal abortion is, at its core, about whether unborn children should be included in what we consider mankind. More: America divided against itself, again

More: The demagoguery of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wade and legal abortion that is becoming center stage to our court confirmation deliberations. This explains the rancor surrounding Roe v. Regarding life, the Declaration tells us that the role of government is to protect it. The point of government is to build a fence around and protect these rights - these truths - articulated in the Declaration. The important news here, if you accept the founding document of our nation, is that human rights are not created by government.
