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The Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision changing the way states could manage abortion has become one of the country’s most divisive issues over the last five decades. With the recently leaked draft opinion poised to overturn the law, America’s debate over abortion has reached another key moment. Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker argues that the America in the 1950s and 1960s — before Roe v. Wade — was more wholesome, and the state of faith, marriage and childbearing was far healthier than it is today:
In 1955, an unmarried pregnant University of Wisconsin graduate student left her home, traveled to San Francisco, went to this doctor who took in pregnant women, he delivered their babies, and helped arrange to adopt that child out.
The baby son, this particular college student, she delivered and put up for adoption grew up to become the legendary business and technology entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Had it been 1975 rather than 1955, there is a reasonable chance there would have never been a Steve Jobs.
In 1975 America, after Roe v. Wade became law, Steve Jobs’ mother could well have wound up in a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Looking around at the impact of laptop computers, iPhones, social media, and remote work, it’s hard to imagine what our lives would be like today had there not been that one genius born.
But the preciousness of every human life depends not on whether that life is a potential Steve Jobs. Each person brings their own unique and invaluable gifts to the world. And as the left goes berserk over the leaked Alito opinion pointing to overturning of Roe v Wade, we should consider that we’ll never know the gifts of the 63 million killed in their mom’s womb since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
If objecting to an aging America without married fathers and mothers and without children makes you a member of the MAGA crowd, is where you think our future lies, so President Biden is your man.
We’re going back to the future. More Black Americans, and all Americans, are seeing that rooted in the American ideal of freedom is sanctity of life and family.
