AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE NEWSROOM

Stenberg decision shows need for human life amendment

"Ten, fifteen or twenty years from now, today's Supreme Court decision will be cited to justify the selective termination of infants, toddlers, grandparents and the disabled. The Stenberg decision is just another 'evolutionary' step in that process," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League.

Brown expressed horror at the Supreme Court's decision in Stenberg v. Carhart, saying that "the Supreme Court has defied logic by overlooking the fact that the Nebraska statute was not about abortion, but indeed attempted to regulate the act of infanticide. The Court has expanded the right to kill children at every stage including childbirth, and has flagrantly violated the concept of judicial restraint.

"The Court used the flawed law, commonly referred to as the Nebraska partial-birth abortion ban, to extend its approval of killing the most vulnerable members of society. The 'life of the mother' exception in the Nebraska statute effectively established the right to a late-term abortion, not to mention the right to infanticide, and has thus provided the Court with the loophole it needed to persist in sanctioning human destruction."

In examining the statute during oral arguments, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg described the Nebraska statute as too broad to protect a woman's right to second term dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortions. Yet Ginsburg said that restrictions on late term dilation and extraction (partial-birth) abortions would also be unconstitutional. Brown opined, "While some appear more gruesome than others, the result of every act of abortion and infanticide is the death of a child, and every such act should be outlawed.

"The urgency for this nation's pro-life movement to demand a human life amendment, that protects every human being as a person from the time of conception, cannot be stressed too strongly. Now is the hour; millions of lives are at stake."