At the 2nd US Presidential debate, both candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were asked this question by a member of the audience: "Perhaps the most important aspect of this election is the Supreme Court justice. What would you prioritize as the most important aspect of selecting a Supreme Court justice?"Hillary answered, "I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works." She also went on to express her opinion on the issue of abortion and same-sex marriage saying, "I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality."
Trump, despite his lifelong record on being mostly progressive and liberal leaning on these issues, said something that strikes the heart of millions of conservative Christians in America, "Justice Scalia, great judge, died recently. And we have a vacancy. I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia. I’m looking for judges — and I’ve actually picked 20 of them so that people would see, highly respected, highly thought of, and actually very beautifully reviewed by just about everybody. But people that will respect the Constitution of the United States. And I think that this is so important."
Justice Antonin Scalia was a Reagan-appointed Supreme Court Justice who was one of the strongest believers in the process of democracy and a Justice with unwaivering faithfulness to the constitution. When 5 unelected Supreme Court Justices decided for 320 million Americans what marriage should be, he strongly expressed his disapproval and belief in the democratic process of social transformation before such a change. “Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court,” said Justice Scalia the day the US Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in America. Perhaps his main objection to the Court's decision is best summarized in his words - “[T]o allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.”
On the issue of abortion, his friend and ideological twin Judge Andrew Napolitano's explanation of Roe v. Wade couldn't be clearer.
According to Judge Napolitano, "The linchpin of Roe v. Wade is the judicial determination that the baby in the womb is not a person."
He also said, "[Roe v. Wade] permits abortions in all 50 states during the first three months of pregnancy for any reason or for no reason. It permits abortions during the second three months of pregnancy for the health of the mother. 'Health of the mother' can mean mental health; thus, most states have taken the liberal position that if a continued pregnancy would make the mom sad or challenge her psychologically, or if she has second thoughts about the pregnancy, the baby may be aborted.
Roe vs. Wade also permits the states to prohibit or to allow abortions during the last three months of pregnancy. Most states prohibit all abortions during the final three months, as this is the period of viability; when the baby can live — assisted, of course — outside the mother's womb. New Jersey, my home state, is the exception, as it permits abortions up to the moment of birth."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jan/20/andrew-napolitano-the-abiding-abortion-controversy/
https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano/01/12/a-few-words-about-abortion
It is not a surprise that Hillary Clinton wants to have a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade. She made her position clear when she told Meet The Press that “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYzo5hKLww
Donald Trump, for all his indefensible words and deeds, has the backing of pro-lifers especially on this issue because the appointment of the next Supreme Court Justices will outlast even a two-term presidency.
Ted Cruz once rightly said Donald Trump is "utterly amoral," "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen" and "a serial philanderer." Hillary Clinton plans to appoint Justices that "understand the way the world really works" according to her belief and not according to the fundamental beliefs on which America was built. It looks like it is going to take an utterly amoral and immoral person to stand for the bedrock of society - traditional marriage - and defend the life of the unborn.
