This position is either incredibly circular or deeply Calvinist.

Professor argues that aborted fetuses lack a moral status because they have no future since they are going to be aborted.

Probably the former since the Calvinist position takes the decision of moral status out of the hands of the person making the decision and places it in the hands of a voluntarist God.

You have to wonder about intellectuals like this who create such an obviously fallacious intellectual system to justify an end like abortion.  Does it never occur to them that the same argument could be used to justify the Holocaust? After all, if fetuses who will be aborted lack a moral status because they have no future, what is to stop an antisemite from saying that Jews lack a moral status because they have no future?

That must be what comes from living in an echo chamber.

Democracy? The Rule of Law? Congress having the law-making power?

Nobel Prize winning constitutional professor leftists don't need that kind of thing.

President Obama in his speech on “fixing” the Affordable Care Act today did not specify what statutory authority, if any, he thinks authorizes him to make such dictats. Given the gargantuan length of the ObamaCare statute, he might still be looking. Press reports say the President is claiming a broad “enforcement discretion.”

It is true that the Chief Executive has some room to decide how strongly to enforce a law, and the timing of enforcement. But here, Obama is apparently suspending the enforcement of a law for a year – simply to head off actual legislation not to his liking. Congress is working on legislation quite similar to the president’s fix, but with differences he considers objectionable. This further demonstrates the primarily legislative nature of the fix.

Indeed, the fix goes far beyond “non-enforcement” because it requires insurers to certain new action to enjoy the delay. This is thus not simply a delay, but a new law.

The “fix” amounts to new legislation – but enacted without Congress. The President has no constitutional authority to rewrite statutes, especially in ways that impose new obligations on people, and that is what the fix seems to entail. And of course, this is not the first such extra-statutory suspension of key ObamaCare provisions.

UPDATE: Here is the text of the administration’s letter describing the fix.

The Rule of the Philosopher-Kings.

Supreme Court of Brazil imposes Homosexual Marriage despite constitutional provision defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Because a bunch of lawyers know what's better for you than you do.