Posted by
Bullpen on Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:33:53 PM
Earlier today I walked into my friends' room to see a celebratory button in honor of the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. "35 years of choice" it said in red, white, and blue. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it?
I don't usually talk about abortion, but this kind of celebration of bad medical science should not go unnoticed. To call abortion a matter of choice is to ignore the choices that were made leading up to the pregnancy. Once it's a life, it's a life. The only choice one has left is to decide whether you or someone else is best fit to raise that life. Responsibility is a scary thing, but it comes with freedom.
As someone born within the last 35 years, I can tell you that I
enjoy this whole being alive thing. Last week I read an article about
how pro-abortion advocates need to retake the moral high ground. There
is no moral high ground for abortion. It should be a telling sign that
"Jane Roe" is now an outspoken advocate against abortion. Murder is
not a form of birth control.
Nowhere in the 14th Amendment is the right to privacy that Roe v. Wade was based upon mentioned. And even if killing was a privacy issue, why would people allow federal funding for a private medical issue? This is the most egregious example of judicial activism ever seen in our nation.
Forget about the Constitution for a moment. Is the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" not part of our Declaration of Independence?
Here's to the lives who never got their chance. Here's to those who can't speak for themselves. Here's to the small part of our collective humanity that dies every time this act is allowed to go on.
35 years of injustice and counting.