Tom Desrosier
Much of what we believe about ourselves, our world and our politics, we learned from someone else.
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As lofty as it sounds, its still killing!
I listened to a debate this morning between Laura Ingraham and Jennifer Stockman. Stockman represents some republican movement toward "Pro-Choice", While predictably, Laura argued for Pro-Life" (Thanks Laura).
Abortion is a tiresome, bone-weary argument that never seems to go away; with groups deeply entrenched on what they both believe are moral principals.
Picture by P. Chicago, www.flickr.com
This is the "Pro-Choice" view: Women have a right to do whatever they want with their bodies. They feel it is an unimpeachable right guaranteed under the Constitution!
Picture from www.nationalreview.com
As for "Pro-Life" - They advance a simple and moral argument: Abortion is killing and killing cannot be condoned as the undisputed and sacrosanct right of anyone!
And from here, the landscape becomes broken and ambiguous. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled via multiple decisions,that abortion is legal, but may be regulated.
To the Pro-Choice crowd, no regulation is acceptable. To the Pro-Life crowd, banning abortion is the only regulation necessary.
And so America still struggles with the the morality and legality of it all. The argument that women are entitled to an unconditional right to abortion, logically becomes the right kill the unborn child, even well into its final trimester, when the conscious mind has begun to form. Indeed! Even Obama apparently voted in favor of legislation in his home state that would cause children who survived a failed abortion, and were consequently born, to be killed through neglect.
And so we are left with this two-fold argument.
How much killing is appropriate to compensate women for their perceived lack of self-empowered. And of course, how do we define "killing".
Gee. This seems like a job for Congress. Aren’t they the ones who write our laws and make those kind of proclamations? Indeed, with Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the house, you’d think she’d be right on top of this!
Oh good. The Wall Street Journal, mentions that Congress made a number of proclamations this year. Maybe they looked at protecting fetuses.
Hmmm.
They saluted the Idaho Potato Commission’s 70th anniversary and recognized soil as an "essential natural resource."
They designated May 5-9 as National Substitute Teacher Recognition Week, and set July 28 as the Day of the American Cowboy.
Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson of Ohio, a fourth-generation undertaker, sponsored a National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day.
Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, whose home state of Georgia has 24,000 acres planted in watermelon, pushed a resolution establishing July as National Watermelon Month.
Nope… Apparently no time to worry about the ongoing genocide of unborn Americans. Not with Dirt and Watermelons on the agenda.
Anyway, this was bothering me, and I felt compelled to write my peace. We seem to have put the most vulnerable among us as the central piece of an argument, that America should not be having.
Choice… Wasn’t that the argument the South used over slavery? Choice… Isn’t that the argument Hitler used when annexing the Hinterlands? Choice… Isn’t that the argument Iran is using over its Nuclear ambitions? Choice.
Choice… This one photograph sums it up for me (warning- this is graphic).
Choice.
Tom
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