In a culture that recoils at the very idea of teaching school children about the God of the Bible, one has to wonder about said culture’s self-appointed commitment to “truth” when one reads a story like this. So what do you think? Is it the job of educators to impart nothing more than empirically verifiable data or is there room for cultural traditions, even the fabricated ones?

Roe v. Wade and its progeny represent some of the most controversial Constitutional case law in American history. Recently, the Supreme Court has indicated a slight retreat from its virtual “abortion on demand” precedent over the past thirty five years, drawing accusations of judicial activism or legislation from the bench. Whether these accusations are true or not is irrelevant; if the Court is guilty of legislating from the bench, no case is a clearer example of such behavior than Roe itself.

The Roe majority based its holding on several morally bankrupt positions: the rejection of prenatal personhood, the ignoring of any interests of the unborn, and the arbitrary dictate that an individual’s bodily autonomy is a superior interest to a state’s interest in protecting innocent life. Read the rest of this entry »