by Bruce Arnold | Front Page
We respect the Supreme Court as the highest institution in the State, a forum in which “justice shall be administered” to all, without fear or favour. The Court has the duty, in final appeal, “to respect, and, as far as practicable, by its laws to defend and vindicate” the fundamental rights of those in its charge, especially the most vulnerable. I regret to say that it has failed lamentably in the discharge of this weighty responsibility, in its recent decision on immigration and unborn rights (known as the M case).
The basic right to life
It is an undeniable medical fact that an unborn child is capable of independently enjoying the most primitive form of the natural right to life, that is, the right not to have her tiny human life wilfully taken away or ended by another. In this respect it is a fundamental right, inalienable and imprescriptible, neither given by, nor taken away by, the Supreme Court. Yet that is precisely what they have done in respect of …More