Women Share How Dobbs Saved Their Babies From Abortions
On the second anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision that allowed states to pass laws protecting babies from abortions, women are sharing their stories of how those laws prompted them to choose life for their unborn children. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America highlighted the two mothers in a recent press conference. One mother, Ashley, […]
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On the second anniversary of the Dobbs Supreme Court decision that allowed states to pass laws protecting babies from abortions, women are sharing their stories of how those laws prompted them to choose life for their unborn children.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America highlighted the two mothers in a recent press conference.
One mother, Ashley, described how she and her husband, Dusty, struggled to have children but were able to adopt their one-year-old son, Jacob, after his birth mother decided against having an abortion.
Jacob’s birth mother had attempted to obtain an abortion at a Planned Parenthood in Florida when she was six months pregnant, but the state’s 15-week abortion ban prevented her from doing so, and she decided to continue her pregnancy, Ashley said.
“Just three months later my husband and I received a call that we’ll never forget. We were told a baby boy had just been born, and his mother had chosen us as his adoptive parents,” Ashley said. “My husband and I are beyond grateful, thankful, and appreciative to Jacob’s birth mother for her sacrificial decision and her courage in pursuing adoption.”
“Without the Supreme Court’s decision, Florida’s pro-life law, and her willingness to choose life rather than pursue abortion elsewhere, our little family and our special almost two-year-old baby boy would not be alive today,” she added. “This Dobbs anniversary marks two years of babies whose lives have been saved, with one of those being Jacob’s.”
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Another mother, Neesha, smiled as she described how Georgia’s heartbeat law saved the life of her baby boy, whom she gave up for adoption after initially considering abortion.
“My baby is adopted, and he’s thriving. I got a chance to see him. Last week was his one-year birthday,” Neesha said. “I got to choose the parents.”
“I’ve never seen a baby so happy,” she said. “They do everything I wish that I had the time to do. The way they love him and nurture him and care for him. They support him, they uplift him, they are encouraging to him.”
The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, with a 6-3 majority ruling in the Dobbs case that “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion.”
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.
“The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. “That provision has been held to guarantee some rights that are not mentioned in the Constitution, but any such right must be ‘deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition’ and ‘implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.’”
“Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Alito wrote.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences,” Alito wrote. “And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division.”
Although technically voting with the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a concurrence saying he supports upholding the 15-week ban at issue in the case but not overturning Roe.
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