In today’s Wall Street Journal Cato Institute vice president for legal affairs and director of Constitutional studies Roger Pilon argues that even if Roe is overturned by the rightward leaning Robert’s Court -which I believe it will be- that the issue of abortion will then revert back to the states.

While I agree with Mr. Pilon’s assessment that Roe v Wade, if overturned by the Supreme Court, would revert back to individual state legislative bodies to be decided, I disagree with his conclusion that:

Whether we believe that the right to life begins at conception or at some point over the next 270 days, we all believe, I hope, that it begins at some point along that line. We all agree, there is some point at which abortion amounts to murderâ?¦we just can’t agree on where that point is.

This is utter nonsense. We should be able to agree on “when life begins” since it is an undisputed empirical biological fact that can be found in any first year medical student’s embryology textbook that life begins at conception when the human sperm fertilizes the egg-called the process of “fecundation.” Any other arbitrary demarcation of “when human life begins” contradicts this scientific fact. There is no debate on “when human life begins.”

Mr. Pillon states:

“a conservative state like Utah might prohibit most abortions, but next store in Nevada we might see a liberal regime” which should not surprise anybody because “reasonable people can have reasonable differences.”

No individual state no matter how “liberal,” “enlightened,” or “reasonable” its citizenry, has the right to deny the constitutionally inalienable right to life to any human being by discriminating based on stage of development. The 14th Amendment is unambiguously clear on this:

“â?¦nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

The primary role of government is to protect human life. Since all human life begins at conception, this fundamental obligation to protect it must also begin at conception. Period. Not only should Roe be overturned because it has resulted in the intentional premeditated murder of over 40 million developing babies in the name of “privacy” and “choice,” but President Bush should introduce a Constitutional “Right to Life Amendment” that no individual state or federal court could violate.

Michelle Malkin has more on the Supreme Court abortion related Scuffle

Keith Milby has a nice piece on how Democrats have started sliming Alito

Charmaine Yoest live blogged today from the steps of the Supreme Court on New Hampshire Abortion Parental Notification Law Ayotte V Planned Parenthood. What a courageous woman. Great photo coverage of the days events.