Students for Life, one of the leading pro-life organizations in the nation, has just launched a petition urging U.S. Supreme Court justices to stand by a leaked draft ruling that would overturn Roe v. Wade and allow each state to decide how to deal with abortion.
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, observed that the leaked decision may have come from a clerk for a pro-abortion justice who wants the media and pro-abortion forces to “bully the Court into backing down” before issuing a final ruling.
“This is a last-ditch effort by pro-abortion forces to BULLY and INTIMIDATE at least one U.S. Supreme Court Justice into backing down on reversing Roe,” Hawkins stated in a May 3 notice to pro-life advocates. “If the reports I’m reading are to be believed, the draft decision reversing Roe is supported by Justices Alito (the author of the draft), Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Chief Justice John Roberts has not signed on – at least yet. That means if just ONE Supreme Court Justice gets cold feet, Roe v. Wade will stand.”
“The Abortion Lobby and their pals in the media desperately want the Court to believe Americans want abortion-on-demand,” Hawkins said
On May 2, Politico published the leaked draft. It clearly states that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should no longer be the law of the land. The ruling, however, has not been officially issued.
Hawkins notes that Democrats are already turning up the pressure. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a joint statement saying, “The Republican-appointed Justices’ reported votes to overturn Roe v. Wade would go down as an abomination, one of the worst and most damaging decisions in modern history.”
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“The Abortion Lobby and their pals in the media desperately want the Court to believe Americans want abortion-on-demand,” Hawkins said. “They desperately want the Court to believe that pro-lifers’ numbers are small and inconsequential and therefore should be ignored.”
While justices are expected to rule strictly on the merits of the law and in accord with the U.S. Constitution, Hawkins notes, “They’re human beings just like everyone else. And human beings are vulnerable to pressure.”
Click here to sign the petition.
