37 years

It was 37 years ago today, on January 22, 1973, that the United States Supreme Court decided the Roe v. Wade case. Since then, over 50,000,000 babies have been murdered in the United States.

That decision, as horrendous as it was, also stated, in regards to the rights of the unborn, that: “If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment."

As of 2003, Texas law firmly established this suggestion of personhood by passing the Prenatal Protection Act, which amended the Texas Penal Code so that a “Person” “means an individual, corporation, or association." (Tex. Penal Code §1.07.38) An "individual" (the term used in the definition of "Person") "means a human being who is alive, including an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth." (Tex. Penal Code §1.07.26)

Because this "suggestion of personhood" is now established by law,the Roe v. Wade decision stipulates that the right to life of unborn children MUST be guaranteed in accordance with the Fourteenth Amendment. In 2010, the people of Texas will be choosing a governor to guide the state through the next four years. I pray that the person we elect will have the courage to take this stand for life.