Who Should Decide Abortion ‘Rights?’

My uncle, now deceased, was an attorney who practiced in New Jersey and specialized in legal issues involving families, in particular cases about domestic disputes involving who should be the primary parent in divorces where the issue of parental responsibility was in dispute.

In one case, the father went into court to get a divorce decree overturned which had awarded primary custody to the mother because the woman, it was claimed, had become too involved with booze and drugs to carry out parental responsibilities in a proper way.

The court where the case was first heard agreed with the father’s claims, judged the evidence about his ex-wife’s lack of parental fitness to be correct, and awarded primary custody to my uncle’s client.

The ex-wife then counter-sued and the case eventually ended up in the New Jersey Supreme Court. This tribunal reversed the lower court’s ruling, and the children were returned to the mother, the decision pronounced and signed by one of the Supreme Court justices named — ready? — Samuel Alito.

And what reason did Alito advance for returning two young kids to the care of a woman who, according to my uncle, was entirely unfit to be responsible for their care? According to Justice Alito, history and tradition required children to be raised by their mother — I’m quoting what Alito said basically word for word.

Here’s a guy, I’m talking about Samuel Alito, who sits on the highest legal tribunal in the United States and makes…