You can take that to the bank...and to law school.
Funny how people only approve of what the SC finds constitutional when it rules in their favor. As pro choice as you are, you should be appalled with Obamacare. It doesn't give patients much of a choice in what doctors they see. It mandates that religiously affiliated organizations must provide abortion coverage against their religious conscience. You're about choice, but don't mind begrudging others of theirs.
If you drone on about what's constitutional, you should be content with the whole constitution, not just parts of it.
What Roe v. Wade doesn't do is consider basic human biology and embryology. It confines abortion to a woman's choice and doesn't consider the fact that the embryo is a life, it tries to blur the lines of a scientific fact, or what point of human development is considered life. What the SCOTUS can't do is dictate scientific fact.
I dabble into the sciences that involve human biology every now and then, and the fact (there's that word again) that a fetus is a human being is irrefutable, like such:
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Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm (spermatozoon development) unites with a female gamete or oocyte (ovum) to form a single cell called a zygote. This highly specialized, totipotent cell marked the beginning of each of us as a unique individual."
Keith L. Moore,
The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2003. pp. 16, 2.
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Development begins with fertilization, the process by which the male gamete, the sperm, and the female gamete, the oocyte, unite to give rise to a zygote."
T.W. Sadler,
Langman's Medical Embryology, 10th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006. p. 11.
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[The zygote], formed by the union of an oocyte and a sperm, is the beginning of a new human being."
Keith L. Moore,
Before We Are Born: Essentials of Embryology, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, 2008. p. 2
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Although life is a continuous process, fertilization (which, incidentally, is not a 'moment') is a critical landmark because, under ordinary circumstances, a new genetically distinct human organism is formed when the chromosomes of the male and female pronuclei blend in the oocyte."
Ronan O'Rahilly and Fabiola Müller,
Human Embryology and Teratology, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley-Liss, 2001. p. 8.
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Human embryos begin development following the fusion of definitive male and female gametes during fertilization... This moment of zygote formation may be taken as the beginning or zero time point of embryonic development."
William J. Larsen,
Essentials of Human Embryology. New York: Churchill Livingstone, 1998. pp. 1, 14.
Just three years after Roe was decided, there were texts making it clear that the embryo inside a woman is a human being, the beginning of a new life:
"It is the penetration of the ovum by a spermatozoan and resultant mingling of the nuclear material each brings to the union that constitutes the culmination of the process of fertilization and marks the initiation of the life of a new individual."
Clark Edward Corliss,
Patten's Human Embryology: Elements of Clinical Development. New York: McGraw Hill, 1976. p. 30.
This one is from 1974:
"The term conception refers to the union of the male and female pronuclear elements of procreation from which a new living being develops."
"The zygote thus formed represents the beginning of a new life."
J.P. Greenhill and E.A. Friedman,
Biological Principles and Modern Practice of Obstetrics. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1974. pp. 17, 23.
This from 1975:
"Every time a sperm cell and ovum unite a new being is created which is alive and will continue to live unless its death is brought about by some specific condition."
E.L. Potter and J.M. Craig,
Pathology of the Fetus and the Infant, 3rd edition. Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1975. p. vii.
Even then, there was a consensus. Life began at conception. What Roe v. Wade did was essentially ignore science and give way to wanton slaughter of unborn children.
In 1981, a group of medical experts submitted testimony to a United States Senate judiciary subcommittee (Subcommittee on Separation of Powers) stating these facts:
"It is incorrect to say that biological data cannot be decisive...It is scientifically correct to say that an individual human life begins at conception."
Professor Micheline Matthews-Roth, Harvard University Medical School
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I have learned from my earliest medical education that human life begins at the time of conception."
Dr. Alfred M. Bongioanni, Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania
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After fertilization has taken place a new human being has come into being. [It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence. Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception."
Dr. Jerome LeJeune, Professor of Genetics, University of Descartes
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By all the criteria of modern molecular biology,
life is present from the moment of conception."
Professor Hymie Gordon, Mayo Clinic
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The beginning of a single human life is from a biological point of view a simple and straightforward matter – the beginning is conception."
Dr. Watson A. Bowes, University of Colorado Medical School
The Senate report came to this conclusion:
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Physicians, biologists, and other scientists agree that conception marks the beginning of the life of a human being - a being that is alive and is a member of the human species. There is overwhelming agreement on this point in countless medical, biological, and scientific writings."
-Report, Subcommittee on Separation of Powers to Senate Judiciary Committee S-158, 97th Congress, 1st Session 1981, 7
The testimony given to the subcommittee came without any rebuttal from the pro-abortion advocates, which clearly revealed the destruction of their premise.
Even then, the defenders of abortion acknowledged the irrefutability of the fact that life begins at conception:
" Perhaps the most straightforward relation between you and me on the one hand and every human fetus from conception onward on the other is this: All are living members of the same species, homo sapiens.
A human fetus, after all, is simply a human being at a very early stage in his or her development."
-David Boonin, A Defense of Abortion, Cambridge University Press: New York, p. 20
So, why shouldn't doctors lie about it, as Scott Walker contends? If it is for the sake of an unborn human being, why not? Lying may be wrong, and it is wrong, but so is murder.