Abortion and The Supreme Court

YES !!!!  Abortion must be legal for medical and humanitarian concerns. 

The Supreme Court is slated to reconsider its 1973 ruling on the issue.  Speculation runs high that the court will repeal the legality of abortion after Mitch McConnell’s success in politically stacking the court for that outcome.  

The problem with abortion has never been its legality.  The reality is that abortion is not a legal issue and certainly not a political issue but rather a moral issue.  Whenever morality is of prevailing importance in any debate passions run much higher. 

The question always ignored and the problem with the so called “Pro-Choice” crowd is; If she doesn’t want a child then why – in God’s holy name - is she pregnant?

The battle cry of the “Pro-Choice” crowd centers around the infernal question: “Why should the government be allowed to make a decision about what I can to do with my body and my life?”

 Answer:  The American people, NOT the government, make the decision.

 In America, the most important role of the government, as defined in the constitution, is protection and the right to life.  Laws define the moral code and fabric of a society.  Hence laws forbidding murders, steeling, rapes, bigamy, pedophilia and et al are instituted by the government. 

 Are we not being told what to do with our bodies when we are required to fasten our seats, or when we are forbidden from driving of 100 miles-per-hour in a 70 mile-an-hour speed limit zone and et al.?  All these restrictions on unsavory and irrational behavior are designed to provide further protections to society and thus further establish a moral code within our society. 

 At six weeks of gestation, it is no longer a mystery or a debate as to the nature and composition of a fetus as a heartbeat can be detected.  Forty-nine years ago, that medical technology did NOT exist and birth defects were untreatable.  Today most can be treated.  Today disabled children are protected by a bill of rights.  As a result, women who once firmly believed their right to privacy was inviolate are now troubled by not knowing where their privacy ends and another human being’s dignity begins.  This brings us squarely face-to-face with morality.  It is the this moral issue that makes abortion so very contentious. 

 In supporting the libertarian point of view of individual freedom requires that a society be highly steeped in strong moral virtues.  If that moral code is absent, as it clearly is in America, libertarianism is unworkable.  America is the breeding ground for spree shootings and mass killings that go on unabated; many of us will remain forever heartbroken that America had to institute laws requiring the country to mask-up in a pandemic to protect society at large.  For that restriction to be avoided, Americans would have had to enthusiastically and thus voluntary embrace the practice.  We didn't.  So, the government acted.  Thus, libertarianism and its demand for individual freedom are dealt serious blows each time, we as a nation, force the government to act in our best interest. 

 Abortion was designed and implemented as protection against the most extreme and disastrous circumstances.  It was was never intended as a practice to end unwanted pregnancies for convenience or to skirt responsibilities and obligations for bad behavior, i.e., to be exploited as a method of birth control.  As such, our morality demands that action be taken and that action can only be effective if instituted by the government.  Abortion is, by its very nature, a struggle to further define the morality of America.

 Until we adequately deal with the despicable immorality of abortion on demand, nothing can change – NOTHING will ever change.  This is why we now have a Supreme Court on the verge of doing the wrong thing to do the right thing.