Posted by Ray Haynes at 2:12 pm on Jun 24, 2022 Comments Off on The Sun is a Little Brighter, the Air a Little Cleaner
When the Supreme Court, in 1973, raised the issue of abortion
from a state to state decision to a Constitutional one, it stained
the Constitution and did violence to the concept of federalism. No
matter what you may think of abortion as a practice or procedure,
there is nothing written in the Constitution close to granting a
Constitutional right to an abortion. Indeed, Roe v. Wade even
perverted the concept of a “right to privacy,” also not in the
Constitution but used to justify the invalidation of a number of
state laws on a variety of different issues. Once again, no matter
what my opinion of the policy of those laws may be, whether the
Constitution bans them or not is a completely separate
question.
That being said, today, the Sun is a little brighter, and the
air is a little cleaner, as my daughter said to me in a text today.
The stain of the federalizing of abortion law is dead, and, God
willing, will stay that way. For me, it feels like 40 years of
political activity has been vindicated. It was worth the effort to
get to this point. Now the real fight begins.
For all of my time in the Legislature, most of my effort on the
question of life… Read More