For over a decade, the United States of America was a dry nation. The Volstead Act was a nationwide constitutional ban on alcohol in all its forms, and while statistically, the consumption of alcohol did drop, it may be argued that wholistically the prohibition did more harm than good. Most certainly, the consumption of alcohol did not cease; it continued in ways that perpetuated crime, poverty, and pain. Prohibition is an example of pietistic intentions run amok.

The ambitious Texas abortion law known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, has me, like many Americans, reexamining the divisive issue of legalized abortion in our nation. The law reads in part, “a physician may not knowingly perform or induce an abortion on a pregnant woman if the physician detected a fetal heartbeat for the unborn child.” Further, the law incentivizes citizens to bring a civil action against those who would violate the provisions of this law awarding, according to the law, “statutory damages in an amount of not less than $10,000 for each abortion that the defendant performed or induced in violation of this chapter that the defendant aided or abetted.” The Biden administration is suing the state of Texas to halt the abortion law, although the Supreme Court has already ruled in a 5-4 decision not to prevent its legality. It remains to be seen if these challenges will result in a revisiting or even a reversal of the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion in 1973....