By going outside the Constitution, however, the judiciary embarked upon a dangerous trend. People were equally perplexed several years later (1973) how the court made a constitutional judgment on abortion when nothing like it is even referenced in the Constitution. The Constitution actually delineates life and protection of life -- yet the court saw it differently.

Judicial activism has been the cause of many of these historical reversals -- and they are plenty. On a number of major cases affecting the family, lower-court rulings have evolved over decades and have been simply ignored by activist judges.

We saw it in the "virtual child pornography" decision. We have seen it in the Pledge of Allegiance ruling. We have seen it in the gay marriage rulings in Massachusetts and California. We have seen it in cases where the Bible has been consistently forbidden from classrooms. We have seen it in the effort by conservatives over more than eight years to ban the heinous procedure known as partial-birth abortion. We have seen it constantly across the nation where individuals' right to practice their faith has been violated.

We have seen it in Chief Justice Roy Moore's removal from office in Alabama. We have seen it in many cases where the historical heritage of a region has been ignored, and legal precedent has been waived and ignored by liberal activist judges around the country. We have seen it where terrorists are granted special rights that the Constitution never enumerated. And more recently, we have seen it where a lower court rejected the Justice Department's case against hard-core pornographers (Extreme Associates) -- and where the court now protects cold-blooded killers under 18 from the death penalty.

It's happened before. In 1942, just as German mental patients were being finished off, Dr. Foster Kennedy wrote his recipe for death in the official publication of the American Psychiatric Association. "Parents who have seen the difficult life of a crippled or feebleminded child must be convinced that though they have the moral obligation to care for the unfortunate creatures, the wider public should not be obliged ... to assume the enormous costs that long-term institutionalization might entail."

The News Watch is on. In the coming days, we will witness the results of the potential Indonesia tsunami in an immediate wave of destruction. Many may die. We will mourn. And we will rebuild.

In America, the coming week will pass quietly. One American woman will die for lack of food and water ... because one man said she would have said she wanted to die, if she could have said she wanted to die, even though she didn't say she wanted to die. And we won't need to mourn, because we did it for her good.