STATEMENT BY THE AMERICA PROJECT Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization DECISION
The U.S Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, returning decision on abortion laws to the states.
The first principle we wish to reinforce is that of non-violence. Intrinsic to the American experience is a commitment to rule of law, which is to say that all members of society (including individual people, corporations, and governments) are to govern themselves in accordance with rules which are publicly promulgated, neutrally enforced, and independently arbitrated. Whatever the ruling of is, we ask all Americans to remain calm, civil, peaceful, and devoted to the rule of law so as not to open door to the despotism and tyranny which is its opposite.
Second, The America Project rejects our preparators intention to divide us. This is article is not an attempt to steer you in either direction regarding opinions on the matter, but rather, to encourage you prioritize peace, rather than abide in the destruction and division this will inevitably cause in our great Nation. We as Patriots must uphold the responsibility to maintain our American Values, so the babies that are permitted to be born with God’s Grace, can enjoy a peaceful world and a loving family life. We wish to remind people that the Supreme Court is not a set of nine Super-Senators charged with making difficult policy determinations. It is or should be the guarantor of a structural commitment to federalism. In the United States, government exists at local, state, and federal levels. Different questions get decided at different levels. The US Constitution spells out what is to be decided at the federal level and leaves the rest to states and individuals to decide. What the Court is supposed to be considering is not the question of what they themselves think of various stances towards abortion, but rather, the question of where decisions concerning abortion are to be located.
Third, we would like to ask that all sides of this issue extend to each other a moment of compassion and recognize that this is an extraordinarily thorny legal issue. This is not an issue of us vs. them, it is an opportunity to abide by a perspective of profound empathy for our fellow man. A natural reading of the Constitution, we feel, would suggest that there is nothing in the US Constitution that empowers the federal government to act in this area at all. The 10 th Amendment reads simply: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Seeing nothing in the Constitution empowering federal authority in this area, we perceive that it is a matter for regulation by the states, that they might continue the practice of having dozens of states try various policy approaches. This would argue for overturning Roe v. Wade and treating abortion as a states’ rights question only. However, we acknowledge that reasonable minds may differ states cannot, for example, adopt laws that degrade rights acknowledged by the US Constitution. We know that for our society to work, we must remain committed to an architecture of decision-making described in our Constitution. Thus, as the States of out our response remains the same in one sense, in that it includes a commitment to the rule of law and hence to the fundamental principle of non-violence in resolving policy disputes.
The opposite, arbitrary application of the law, is invitation to despotism and tyranny.
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