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How Humpty Dumpty Changed the World: 34 Years of Roe

By Ken Connor
Monday, January 29, 2007

Every year since 1973, millions of Americans have paused to remember the day when new words entered the American vocabulary. Words fraught with ambiguity, like “the right of personal privacy”. Euphemisms, like “terminate one’s pregnancy.” Obscure phrases, like “the penumbras of the Bill of Rights.” January after January we take time to remember these words, and the carnage they have caused.

In an act of breathtaking judicial arrogance, the Supreme Court of the United States on January 23, 1973, “discovered” a right to abortion in the Constitution which had, theretofore, been overlooked by lawyers, judges and scholars for almost 200 years. As a consequence of the court’s ruling, over 47 million unborn children have perished at the hands of abortionists in this country. Thousands of women have suffered physical and emotional injury. The entire culture has been poisoned by the rise of a “disposable man” ethic that jeopardizes the elderly, infirm, and handicapped persons with disabilities. That ethic has given rise to a spirit of utilitarianism that undergirds a ghoulish form of medical “research” that requires the destruction of human embryos for the “greater good.” No single decision in American jurisprudence has resulted in more damage to the American people than Roe v. Wade.