CatholicExchange.com has a great article by George Weigel that he has written as an open letter to Senator Patrick Leahy about Judge John Roberts’ evaluation process.

Weigel succintly points out the glaring double-standard and illogic in the abortionists’ position:

In late July, you told a Vermont radio show that you wouldn’t vote to confirm a nominee who “didn’t consider Roe v. Wade settled law.” You then compared Roe to Brown v. Board of Education, the epic civil rights case that rejected “separate but equal” public education as unconstitutional. I suggest that you have the wrong analogy here. The correct analogy is between Roe and Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision that created the “separate but equal” doctrine. Now there was “unsettled law;” there was a decision that cut across the grain of basic principles of justice; there was a decision that roiled our politics for generations, until Brown effectively reversed Plessy in 1954. Plessy, in a word, was the Roe of its time: a case wrongly-decided on a fundamental issue.

There is nothing “settled” about Roe v. Wade…

When it comes right down to it, the abortionists’ believe that murdering babies is okay to do. They can’t appeal to God to defend such evil, and they can’t even appeal to science to defend it, as everybody knows that humans procreate babies when they have sex, and that if you then kill those babies, it’s murder.

Since then they have no basis on which to defend Roe vs. Wade, they use a circular kind of support logic and declare that “there can be no argument because it’s ’settled law’.” As if you could wave a magical golden wand over a court decision to make it become “settled law” or similarly declare something to be true because the Supreme Court of the United States said it was.

They have exchanged the truth of God for a lie and embraced heinous acts against him. God has allowed them to do this in his great love for them, in hopes that they will turn to him and repent (cf. Ezekiel 18:23).

I hope that Senator Leahy reads George Weigel’s letter and the Holy Spirit enlightens his heart to see the truth in it.