The Alabama Supreme Court approved the capital punishment of a man who killed his pregnant wife in 2009, stating that under Alabama’s law, “the value of the life of an unborn child is no less than the value of the lives of other persons.”
According to Christian News, one of the Alabama justices is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade in light of this ruling since the landmark court case ruled that the ‘right’ to abortion supersedes an unborn child’s right to life.
“I concur fully with the Court’s rationale that unborn children are persons entitled to the full and equal protection of the law,” Justice Tom Parker wrote in the decision released on Friday. “I write specially to expound upon the principles presented in the main opinion and to note the continued legal anomaly and logical fallacy that is Roe v. Wade.”
“I urge the United States Supreme Court to overrule this increasingly isolated exception to the rights of unborn children,” he stated.
The justice noted that the decision made in the 1973 case does not align with the criminal laws in many states that recognize unborn children as people. Alabama, for example, passed the Brody Act in 2006 after a pregnant woman was found shot and killed. The act declares that “an unborn child in utero at any stage of development, regardless of viability” is a person…
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