Judging Freedom - Abortion in America Update
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Hi, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here with Judging Freedom. Today is Friday, April 29th,
2022. It's about 2.10 in the afternoon here on the east coast of the United States.
Yesterday, at the end of the day, the legislature of the state of Oklahoma enacted legislation nearly identical to that of the state of Texas with respect to abortion.
It's very clear that the country is severely divided on this. The Oklahoma-Texas model prohibits all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy unless two physicians can certify that the mother will die if she carries the baby to term.
Otherwise, there's no other exceptions in this legislation. This legislation is in direct defiance of Roe
versus Wade, which as I speak is still the law of the land. The Supreme Court declined to interfere
with the Texas legislation. It will also decline to interfere with the Oklahoma legislation.
From the perspective of the idea of nullification of a state legislature nullifying a federal law that the legislature wants to declare to be unconstitutional and therefore invalid within the borders of its state, that's what's happening even as we speak.
Someone, some entity will probably challenge the Oklahoma law, but they won't get anywhere because of the manner in which the
Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the Texas law. There is a case before the Supreme
Court involving Mississippi legislation, which is the same as Texas and Oklahoma, except it draws
the line at 15 weeks. Roe versus Wade, which is technically still the law of the land, draws the line at 23
to 24 weeks. On the other side of this, of course, you have the New Jersey and California models,
which permit abortions up to the moment of birth and which will pay for abortions in the state of
California, will also pay your travel and lodging expenses as well. All of this
is expecting the Supreme Court in the Mississippi case to invalidate Roe versus Wade and leave
abortion up to the states. And states like Texas and South Dakota and probably Missouri and Oklahoma will invalidate abortion. And left-wing crazy places
like New Jersey, where I am now and where I live in California, will glorify an abortion.
Beyond me, how any government can glorify in allowing babies to be slaughtered,
but that's exactly what will will happen I mean a few weeks
ago we showed you pictures of two babies um it was repellent to watch these are full-term uh babies
who were burnt to death with acid uh in order to extract them from the mother's womb. I mean, the law and the medicine is disgusting.
If the baby survives the abortion and the doctor kills the baby with a scalpel,
the doctor is guilty of murder.
If the baby survives the abortion and the doctor lets the baby choke or starve to death or die of thirst, the doctor is
complying with his obligations as an abortionist and no crime is committed. That is just reprehensible.
To me, to logic, the baby in the womb is a person and the taking of that baby's life is homicide.
That's not going to be resolved by getting rid of Roe versus Wade.
It's just going to divide the country.
So in some states, these homicides, infanticide, the killing of an infant, infanticide will be legal, glorified, and either cheap or free.
And in other states, it will be properly condemned.
Add Oklahoma to that list of states
in which it will be properly condemned and prosecuted.
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