Chief Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority in the 1973 decision on Roe vs. Wade, states that, “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins… note… the wide divergence of thinking on this most sensitive and difficult question… When those trained in… medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary… is not in a position to speculate as to the answer.”
Since when do medicine, philosophy and theology have to agree on anything? Medicine is based on science, the others are not. Suppose that, for the words “philosophy and theology,” we substitute the words “physiology and biology?” Then the sentence must read differently: “When those trained in medicine, biology, and physiology agree unanimously on the fact that life begins at conception, then the judiciary is in no position to overrule the unambiguous consensus of science.”
How can such ignorance reside in the highest court in the land? Consider that no law school in the USA – not Harvard, Yale, Stanford, none – requires as a prerequisite for graduation that its students have taken even a single course in science. Thus, scientifically ignorant attorneys become scientifically ignorant judges and those judges become Supreme Court justices.
AAGLE does not take any position of advocacy, pro or con, on the legality of abortion.