(TheRedAlertNews.com) – In a decision today that has disappointed the pro-life movement, the United States Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal that would’ve had the court decide if fetuses have constitutional rights.
According to Reuters in a report headlined “U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs fetal personhood appeal“:
“The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to decide whether fetuses are entitled to constitutional rights in light of its June ruling overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that had legalized abortion nationwide, steering clear for now of another front in America’s culture wars.
“The justices turned away an appeal by a Catholic group and two women of a lower court’s ruling holding that fetuses lacked the proper legal standing to challenge a 2019 state law codifying the right to abortion in line with the Roe precedent. The two women, pregnant at the time when the case was first filed, sued on behalf of their fetuses and later gave birth.” [emphasis added]
More specifically:
“Lawyers for the group Catholics for Life and the two Rhode Island women – one named Nichole Leigh Rowley and the other using the pseudonym Jane Doe – argued that the case ‘presents the opportunity for this court to meet that inevitable question head on’ by deciding if fetuses possess due process and equal protection rights conferred by the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.” [emphasis added]
For now, that question will go unanswered by the Supreme Court.
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