The American Bar Association is a voluntary professional organization of lawyers. Although the organization is open to all lawyers, it takes a hard leftist line on virtually every social issue. Rabidly pro-abortion since the early 1990s, the ABA has made no secret of its love for abortion and antagonism toward the pro-life position. In a 2014 volume of its ironically-named “Human Rights” magazine, the ABA published a screed by abortion-activist attorneys stating that lawyers, “can no longer stand by and let state legislatures eviscerate” abortion rights.

There’s nothing illegal about a private organization promoting views in favor of abortion; it’s a free country. However, there is a problem when that private group holds tremendous sway over who can enter their chosen field and block access to advancement. Consider that the ABA controls who can sit for the bar exam (almost every state requires a student to graduate from an ABA-approved school). Also, a problem arises when elected officials confuse private, biased groups with authoritative, accountable arbiters of truth to whom they should surrender their own power to think and discriminate.