Welcome to the Abolish Abortion Political Action Committee!
Promote the liberty and self-ownership under God of all persons, born and preborn!
Whereas most if not all “pro-life” organizations are focused only on legislation affecting the unborn, AAPAC takes a wider view on the importance of life and liberty for all. Recognizing that “government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem” (Ronald Reagan), AAPAC opposes any legislation and candidates that seek to grow the power of Government, whether at the Local, State, or Federal levels. Our founders intended Government to be strictly limited to protect life, liberty, and property—”That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” Declaration of Independence.
The End of Roe v. Wade!
The Constitution was one of enumerated Federal powers and the 10th Amendment provides that, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The regulation of Abortion is simply not an enumerated power given to the Federal Government, and consequently that issue must remain the purview of the States and localities. Many judicial scholars recognize that the Roe v. Wade decision was an exercise of raw judicial power as the Supreme Court asserted jurisdiction over the matter by appealing to illusory “emanations” and “penumbras” supposedly from the text of the Constitution. It was a dishonest exercise of legislating from the bench. Thankfully in Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court returned the issue back to the States, obviating the need for the States to nullify Roe. The Court stated: “Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives.” Dobbs v. Jackson, No. 19–1392, at 79 (S.Ct. 2022).
The Way Forward After Roe!
The Dobbs Court stated: “Not only was there no support for such a constitutional right until shortly before Roe, but abortion had long been a crime in every single State. At common law, abortion was criminal in at least some stages of pregnancy and was regarded as unlawful.” Id. at 16. AAPAC believes that the States and localities should pass legislation and enforce the shutting down of abortion clinics in order to safeguard the lives of the pre-born. Consequently, AAPAC supports efforts to restore State prerogatives to protect innocent pre-born human life. Oklahoma Senate Bill 495 was a step ahead of Dobbs, recognizing the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land and refusing “to assent to the legal fiction that the Constitution prohibits the state from exercising its reserved police powers to outlaw homicide and provide equal protection to all persons and avoid all federal statutes, regulations, treaties, orders and court rulings that would deprive an unborn child of the right to life, or prohibit the equal protection of such right.” It is a good thing that a constitutional crisis and conflict of laws can now be avoided as a result of Dobbs.
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