Welcome back to life and books and everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung.

Today I want to read this article from World Opinions upon the momentous occasion, nearly 50 years in the making of the overturning of Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision that the Supreme Court handed down on June 24. Here's my piece entitled, Let the Little Children Come to Me.

Roe v. Wade was always an embarrassment of contorted jurisprudence. Even many legal scholars on the

left admitted as much. The Constitution never meant to enshrine under the right of privacy

or the due process clause, a right to abortion

on demand. Indeed, as Justice Samuel Alito's opinion points out, at the time of the 14th Amendment,

three-quarters of the states outlawed abortion at every stage of pregnancy, and the remaining

states soon followed suit. The Dobbs' decision succeeds admirably in making the fictitious reasoning

of Roe plain to see. But as much as abortion has been indefensible on constitutional grounds,

the real monstrosity of Roe was not legal, but moral. For 50 years, the two sides of the debate

have been called pro-choice and pro-life.

And those are accurate labels.

The ability to freely terminate a pregnancy at any point in the pregnancy and for any reason

is certainly about the right to make a choice.

But that invented constitutional right has been, even more fundamentally, about the ending of life.

Everyone with eyes to see the literal pictures of beating hearts and 4D ultrasounds,

not to mention the gruesome photos of pre-born children torn limb from limb,

has known that we are talking about life.

The newborn baby lovingly cuddled for the first time and welcomed into the world with tears of joy is the same child who has been denied a right

to live a few inches away on the other side of the birth canal. Father forgive us, for we know what we do.

No doubt parents have always loved their children,

but the world didn't collectively protect children until the hitherto strange views of Jews and Christians became normalized. If there was one dominant fact regarding children in the ancient world,

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