By Liberty Counsel ——Bio and Archives--June 10, 2023
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – June is “Celebrate Life Month” due to the anniversary of the historic overturning of Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey abortion decisions on June 24, 2022.
This month is an opportunity to celebrate the miracle of life and the sanctity of all human life.
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court wrote that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Liberty Counsel’s amicus brief, Brief for Amici Curiae African-American, Hispanic, Roman Catholic and Protestant Religious and Civil Rights Organization and Leaders Supporting Petitioners, in the Dobbs case was on behalf of a diverse group of organizations, churches, religious leaders, and individuals, including 70,000 African American and Hispanic churches across the United States. These minority groups asked the Supreme Court to overturn Roe because legalized abortion is unconstitutional, violates the right to life, and supports racist eugenics. The High Court even cited Liberty Counsel’s amicus brief in footnote 41. The Court noted that the brief argues that the roots of abortion are “motivated by a desire to suppress the size of the African American population…And it is beyond dispute that Roe had had that demographic effect. A highly disproportional percentage of aborted fetuses are black.”
More than 63 million unborn babies have been aborted since Roe, the majority of them black and Hispanic. However, in the six months since Roe and Casey have been overturned, there were 5,377 fewer abortions on average per month.
Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “This month, we celebrate life with the overturning of the Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey abortion decisions. For many years, Liberty Counsel and others have worked tirelessly to see this happen. This month we celebrate the miracle of life.”
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