Just last year the Supreme Court overturned the faulty Roe v. Wade abortion decision from 1973 and said, since the Constitution does not contain that “right,” voters in the states could regulate it.
Now another stunning decision has been released.
This time, a state court has held that “someone who kills an unborn baby capable of living outside of the mother’s body can be charged with homicide since that child is considered a person under state law.”
That’s essentially the “personhood” theme that pro-lifers have been supporting for years already: the determination that the unborn is a “person” and therefore protected by the Constitution.
The ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court limits that designation to those babies capable of living outside the mother, at this time.
Liberty Counsel explained, “In Commonwealth v. Ronchi, the highest state court in Massachusetts recently upheld two first-degree murder convictions of a man who stabbed his girlfriend to death which caused the death of their nine-month unborn child from loss of blood circulation from the mother.
“The defendant argued that since he had not actually stabbed the baby, he should not be held responsible for its death. However, the court rejected this argument and held that ‘infliction of prenatal injuries resulting in the death of a viable fetus, before or after it is born, is homicide.'”
The defendant had been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the crime.
The high court affirmed instructions to the jury that included, “Killing is not murder unless a human being has been killed. A viable fetus is a human being under the law of homicide. A fetus is viable when there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’s sustained survival outside the womb, with or without artificial support.”
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The decision affirmed an earlier precedent in the state, when in 1984 a driver was convicted of motor vehicle homicide when his vehicle struck a woman who was eight and a half months pregnant, and her child died.
Liberty Counsel reported, “The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court often used the word ‘child’ to refer to the unborn baby in last week’s ruling in Commonwealth v. Ronchi. Yet in a tragic irony, in the 1981 decision in Moe v. Secretary of Administration and Finance, the same court recognized a ‘fundamental right of choice’ when it comes to abortion, and that the state constitution ‘affords a greater degree of protection to the right’ than previous U.S. Supreme Court decisions of the time.”
That state now allows abortion through 24 weeks and after that under limited circumstances.
Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, said, “Abortion has distorted the law. It makes perfect sense to charge a person with murder who kills an unborn child. It makes no sense to call this ‘choice’ when the mother does the killing. Homicide can only be committed against a person – a human being. Homicide cannot be committed against property or a non-person. Plain and simple – abortion is homicide because the act of killing the child is the same whether it is done by a violent actor or a doctor in a white lab coat.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Long the world’s most Christian nation, America today is being taken over by a new “official” national religion, one being imposed on the entire populace by every major societal institution, from government, media and big tech, to academia, entertainment and business.
This new state religion is Wokeism. “Going woke” conjures up visions of someone claiming to be acutely sensitive (“awake”) to “systemic social and political injustice.” And not just alleged bigotry against blacks, but toward every other “minority” as well, from LGBT folk – especially everything transgender and “nonbinary” – to “undocumented immigrants.” All of them, being VICTIMS, intrinsically more virtuous than the shameful oppressor class: primarily heterosexual white males.
This new “woke” consciousness has turned America upside-down – from the nationwide Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, to tearing down of historic monuments, to demanding multi-million-dollar reparation payments for blacks, to appointing transgenders as top government officials, to rampant reverse discrimination in every area of life, to the U.S. military imposing mandatory “diversity training” and transgender pronoun use on all personnel, causing recruitment to disastrously plummet.
Yet there is hope. Being “saved” – which in Wokeism is called being “woke” – is largely a matter of worshipping victimhood by becoming an “ally” and “defender” of all the many victim classes, and a determined enemy of the straight white male oppressor class. Thus, “joining the righteous” as an ally – even if one is cursed to be a straight white male – opens the door mercifully for salvation, even to the most wretched.
That is the power of the religion of Wokeism. And it’s explored as never before in the February 2023 issue of WND’s critically acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine. If you’ve ever wondered, for example, exactly how the most radical elements in American society are successfully pressuring the biggest corporations into adopting the most outrageous and immoral policies imaginable, even when doing so permanently damages and devalues the company, the stunning answers are in this issue of Whistleblower, titled “WOKEISM: AMERICA’S OFFICIAL STATE RELIGION.”
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