Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Alabama Supreme Court Challenge to Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S.113 (1973)

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker offered some red meat to pro-lifers when he used a wrongful death case to call on states to give legal rights to unborn babies, arguing that Roe v. Wade’s “viability standard is not persuasive” and “should be abandoned.”

In a unanimous decision issued Friday, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that a DeKalb County, Ala. woman could pursue a wrongful death claim against her doctors on behalf of her unborn child, even though the fetus died before being able to survive outside her womb.

The court’s ruling reversed the lower DeKalb Circuit Court’s decision, which held that the woman, Amy Hamilton, could not sue because the child was not yet viable.

Hamilton and her lawyers had sued three doctors and a medical group claiming that their “negligent acts” resulted in the death of her unborn son.

The ruling authored by Parker and signed by the remaining three justices asserted that the standard of viability should be abandoned as it pertains to the law of wrongful death.

“Today, this Court reaffirms that the lives of unborn children are protected by Alabama’s wrongful-death statute, regardless of viability,” Parker wrote in the decision. “I write separately to explain why the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), does not bar the result we reach today and to emphasize the diminishing influence of Roe’s viability standard. Because Roe is not controlling authority beyond abortion law, and because its viability standard is not persuasive, I conclude that, at least with regard to the law of wrongful death, Roe’s viability standard should be universally abandoned.”

Parker added that “The Supreme Court in Roe erroneously concluded that ‘the unborn have never been recognized in the law as persons’” and that outside of abortion law, “viability” has “little significance.” According to Parker, Roe’s viability rule should be rejected by the states.

In his ruling Parker also noted that as of March 2010, 38 states have fetal homicide laws and Alabama’s homicide statute includes “an unborn child in utero at any stage of development, regardless of viability.”


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/21/alabama-supreme-court-takes-on-roe-v-wade/#ixzz1nFFSY312

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