Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 31, 2013

Forty years ago, the Supreme Court ? acting without moral, legal, or constitutional authority ? struck down the abortion laws of all fifty states.  The Court imposed a new legal regime in which the unborn could be murdered at any time before birth.

In fact, the notorious Roe vs. Wade ruling did not define birth as the beginning of legal personhood. This is why the abortion lobby defends the practice of a form of infanticide called ?partial-birth abortion? ? and why some self-appointed medical ethicists are promoting legal protection for what they call the post-birth abortion of supposedly unwanted newborn infants.

In addition to enabling the slaughter of 55 million unborn children, the Roe vs. Wade ruling established the principle that the government ? rather than the Creator ? defines who is a ?person? protected by law. Nor is that ruling the ?law of the land,? as its defenders insist, because the Supreme Court has no legislative authority.

This leads to an interesting question for the growing number of county sheriffs who have announced their opposition to the administration?s gun control policies: If they are willing to permit the federally sanctioned murder of children in their jurisdictions, why should we believe their promises to protect the right of armed self-defense?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.