The left has been hiding something from you for the past 30 years. They have done such a thorough job of it that people I have known most of my life, people with doctorates, college professors, businessmen, even a member of the clergy, never knew the truth about Roe v. Wade. They all believed, as do most Americans, that if Roe were overturned Abortion would immediately be illegal in America. They believe this because that is what the media tells us. It is what our educators tell us. It is what many of our politicians tell us. It is what they want us to believe, and it is a lie.
The left, and their fellow travelers on abortion, need you to believe that overturning Roe would ban abortion. They want you to imagine weeping, troubled young girls, wandering alone into dirty back-alley clinics, in some feeble attempt to regain their “reproductive rights.” They want you to envision self-mutilation with a wire hanger. They demand that there is no other sane alternative to Roe. But this is total fantasy, and proves that the bigger the lie, the easier it is to beleive.
Roe mandated legalized abortion, by Judicial fiat, in the entire United States. At the time, Roe overturned every existing State abortion law on the books in favor if its judicial precedent, and created laws in States where none existed. But repealing Roe would not make abortion illegal. It would return the full responsibility of defining if, how, and when abortions could be obtained, to the legislatures of each state, and the people who elect those representatives.
The truth is that if Roe were overturned almost every state in the nation would simply continue to use its existing abortion laws. Sorry, no mass exodus to back alley clinics; no surge in the birth of unwanted babies. No denial of the “perceived fundamental right of women to reproductive freedom.” Just business as usual. But States could–at their leisure–feel free to then enact more permissive or more restrictive laws based on the will of the people of each individual state. People living in states with restrictive laws would not be prohibited from traveling to other states to obtain services. They would be free to accept jobs, or buy homes in states whose laws and ideas favored their current world view, instead of having to deal with laws that they have no hope of overturning. (At present you and I cannot vote out a Life-tenured Supreme Court Judge) So we would actually create more freedom and more choice by allowing the will of every American to be heard at the ballot box instead of at the hands of unelected judges and paid-for politicians indebted to single issue, cash-rich abortion PAC’s. (It can’t just be a bad thing for Republicans who want to drill oil to take campaign money from oil companies, can it?)
Jeanne Shaheen, Carol Shea-Porter, and every other Pro-Choice democrat get enormous amounts of funding from Emily’s list and other Abortion PAC’s; and they need you to buy the lie as they have because they are afraid–truly and deeply afraid–that if permitted, you will choose to abandon theirdefinition of choice. Democrats fear the power of real choice more than any other. More than they fear our enemies abroad. It is why all of their policies, including the smoke screen about Roe, begin with convincing you to give up your power so they can move it as far away from you as possible; preferably all the way to the federal government.
Top down federal mandates like Roe protect Democrats from the risk that real choice presents to their agenda. The problem is that the fear they are inventing for you and I only makes government more cumbersome, politicizes the entire Judicial branch of the government–in violation of the constitution–and maintains a debate whose complex legal beurocarcy we all pay for with our tax dollars. It’s not just a lie, it is perhaps one of the most expensive lies in history.
Overturning Roe is not just some radical act desired by “out of step moralists” or “religious fanatics bent on banning abortion.” Overturning Roe is about restoring the right of real choice; the kind that allows your votes to actually shape the laws you want to be governed by. Overturning Roe puts the power of government right where the constitution meant for it to be; as far away from the federal government as possible. Will some of that power go to radical out of step moralists, sure; but not any more than it does to out of step radical amoralists. That’s democracy. So why not let it work?
Abortion in one form or another will always be legal in America. (unless the Muslim Jihadists take over–then it would actually be banned) And if the left truly believed in “Choice,” they would permit freedom of choice at the ballot box; If they actually trusted your opinion, they would have no excuse for not letting you decide. But democrats are so afraid to allow you that right, they will do or say anything to prevent it. Just ask them. Ask them why they won’t let us vote for ourselves. That right really can be found in the US Constitution.
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Despite being “legal”, we must, necessarily, due to the enormity of what is taking place every day, re-consider the reality of what takes place during an abortion. It is very easy to slide into the familiarity and comfort of our emotions when discussing this topic. This is a very emotional topic. Emotion has to be left at the door if you want to come in and get to the truth.
At the moment of conception a sperm penetrates an egg thereby fertilizing the egg. At that moment the genetic make-up of that baby is complete. At that very moment the fertilized egg, or zygote, is no longer just a cell or clump of cells from just the mother or just the father. It is no longer just “a part” of the mother or the father. That zygote is now a living entity (or being) that is separate and apart (identifiably by the newly created genetic makeup) from both parents and dependent on the mother for nourishment and space to grow. It is not the mother or her body. It is a human “being” at the earliest and most vulnerable stage of life. At that stage its form may be described as a few cells but its substance is pure human. It is a ‘being” and it is human. Fact via logic.
(FYI: 9 days after conception blood begins to flow. 19 days after conception the heart begins to beat. 35 days after conception tiny arm and legs begin to grow.)
We live in an era of unprecedented consumerism that has most people equating “freedom” with choice. The Founding Fathers of America intended for our freedom to be based in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Freedom is not based in choice carte blanche.
When you cloak the termination of the life of this ‘being’ with the illusion of “choice” you open the floodgates of emotion because it is considered by the disillusioned to be a direct assault on what they perceive to be their freedom. As Americans, freedom is our most precious asset so if what we perceive to be our freedom is under attack there will necessarily be a rush to defend this “choice” or, due to its legality, what most pro-choice women consider their “right.”
Giving a woman the “right” to have an abortion is logically equivalent to giving a taxi driver the “right” to kill a person who jumped in his cab, even though his “Not in Service” light was on, because he doesn’t want to be bothered with the time, effort and inconvenience of taking the passenger where he needs to go. When a “passenger” shows up in a mother’s womb you can’t just ask them to get out.
I am not going to approach issues of incest, rape or potential death of the mother. These are exceptions to the rule and need to be addressed on an individual basis. Abortion, in and of itself, is the premeditated murder of another human being and it is wrong. Any argument to the contrary is illogical and nonsensical.
I do not disagree with you. And I appreciate your detailed comments. But sometimes you have to start with the battles you can win.
I have won many battles with this argument. Decent caring people often make the correct choice once they understand the lie.