Part 2 due to length.
It is the same. Especially when you believe the 1892 SCOTUS case, Holy Trinity Church v. the United States, was the SCOTUS declaration that America is a Christian nation.
That wasn't the what happened.
If America was officially a Christian Nation, our- government would have the authority to insure privilege, promote, endorse, support, and encourage Christianity. And all other belief systems and even the non-religious would be second class citizens.
On February 29, 1892, The Supreme Court declared (in
Holy Trinity v. United States) that the historical record of America overwhelmingly demonstrated that the United States “
… is a Christian nation.” Contrary to this historical and legal record, judges throughout the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries have repeatedly ruled against the place that Christianity has enjoyed in American life. Rather than render decisions consistent with the legal foundation of America, activist judges have taken it upon themselves to attempt to establish a new foundation for American law—that being the subjective opinions of liberal activist judges. Thousands of pieces of evidence exist that demonstrate that America was founded as a Christian nation, and
Holy Trinity v. United States is only one of the many pieces of that mosaic of historical truth.
And our government did support and endorse Christianity above all alse. They paid churches to educate, still pass out bibles, paid chaplains. It is only recently that they went to multi faith chaplains and such.
You of course are free to believe that. However, America is not a dictatorship. Voting in a man or woman who is a strict constitutionalist or originalist will not make abortion illegal. Especially not when it was the Constitution that was invoked in order to make abortion legal.
In point of fact if you do the research you'll find there is a movement afoot now seeking to petition Congress to make for a national abortion rights law.
And again, in that effort the Constitution is a factor; the commerce clause.
No, but they wioll appoint SCOTUS Justices who can overturn the opinion passed down earlier. Once again abortion is legal not by statute, but by opinioon of SCOTUS> as such a future SCOTUS can issue a new opinion. that is why liberals hate conservative presidents. That is why Shumer went nuts over McConnell. He knew the Roe v. Wade could be in target.
Well teh Commerce clause could be used by the butchers, by forcing states trying to restrict abortions to open up for more. Unfair commerce. Like they did in WW 2 when they threatened to jail farmers fro growing their own silage for their cows citing interstate commerce. Right now that law has been so twisted, government can force you to abandon a private little garden in your yard under interstate commerce. That is why I like originalist justices. REad and enforce the law as written and not reinterpreted.
You might wish to access resources for that information that are not that of extreme pro-life origin.
[sic]"...The United States has got the worst maternal death rate of any developed nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And we’re one of the only industrialized countries in which the number of deaths are on the rise.
According to the CDC, about 700 U.S. women die every year as a result of high-risk pregnancy or delivery complications, while up to 50,000 women nearly die due to severe complications such as heart attacks or hemorrhages during pregnancy or delivery. (That's despite the fact that, according to 2017 research published in The Lancet, the United States spends more money on healthcare than any other country does—around $9,237 a person each year.)
Even scarier: According to the World Health Organization, about half of maternal deaths in the U.S. are preventable, so long as there's increased awareness and pregnant women can get access to quality care." [2017 Women's Health :5 Things You Never Knew About How Dangerous Pregnancy Is In The U.S. Pregnancy-related deaths are on the rise. Here's why.
I have accessed.
Your second paragraph is a red herring. Women die every year. They also can abort now if they wish. Or try to carry the baby to term if they wish. Money spent is not going to stop complications from developing. Complications can arise no matter how much care a person receives.
YOur last paragraph is also misleading. Most of those "maternal deaths" are due to women making poor choices during their pregnancies, thus increasing their risks for harm to them or the baby. to paraphrase you " You cannot make a pregnant woman take care of herself."
But the majority of founders and others believing america was Christian:
Justice J. Story:
Now, there will probably be found few persons in this, or any other Christian country, who would deliberately contend, that it was unreasonable, or unjust to foster and encourage the Christian religion generally, as a matter of sound policy, as well as of revealed truth. In fact, every American colony, from its foundation down to the revolution, with the exception of Rhode Island, (if, indeed, that state be an exception,) did openly, by the whole course of its laws and institutions, support and sustain, in some form, the Christian religion; and almost invariably gave a peculiar sanction to some of its fundamental doctrines. And this has continued to be the case in some of the states down to the present period, without the slightest suspicion, that it was against the principles of public law, or republican liberty. Indeed, in a republic, there would seem to be a peculiar propriety in viewing the Christian religion, as the great basis, on which it must rest for its support and permanence, if it be, what it has ever been deemed by its truest friends to be, the religion of liberty. Montesquieu has remarked, that the Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage, with which a prince punishes his subjects, and exercises himself in cruelty. . . Massachusetts, . . . has promulgated in her BILL OF RIGHTS the importance and necessity of the public support of religion, and the worship of God . . . The language of that bill of rights is remarkable for its pointed affirmation of the duty of government to support Christianity .
Justice J. McClean:
For many years, my hope for the perpetuity of our institutions has rested upon Bible morality and the general dissemination of Christian principles. This is an element which did not exist in the ancient republics. It is a basis on which free governments may be maintained through all time.
It is a truth experienced in all time, that a free government can have no other than a moral basis; and it requires a high degree of intelligence and virtue in the people to maintain it. Free government is not a self-moving machine. It can only act through agencies. And if its aims be low and selfish, if it addresses itself to the morbid feelings of humanity, its tendencies must be corrupt and weaken the great principles on which it is founded.
Our mission of freedom is not carried out by brute force, by canon [church]law, or any other law except the moral law and those Christian principles which are found in the Scriptures.
Chief Justice E. Warren:
I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Saviour have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses . . . Whether we look to the first Charter of Virginia . . . or to the Charter of New England . . . or to the Charter of Massachusetts Bay . . . or to the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut . . . the same objective is present: a Christian land governed by Christian principles . . .
I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it: freedom of belief, of expression, of assembly, of petition, the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of the home, equal justice under law, and the reservation of powers to the people . . . I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of the Christian religion. I like also to believe that as long as we do so, no great harm can come to our country.
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Justice D.J. Brewer writing the majority opinion of the 1892 trinity case:
If we pass beyond these matters to a view of American life, as expressed by its laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth. Among other matters, note the following: the form of oath universally prevailing, concluding with an appeal to the Almighty; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative bodies and most conventions with prayer; the prefatory words of all wills, “In the name of God, amen;” the laws respecting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, legislatures, and other similar public assemblies on that day; the churches and church organizations which abound in every city, town, and hamlet; the multitude of charitable organizations existing everywhere under Christian auspices; the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter of the globe. These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation.
