Roe v. Wade: 35 Tragic Years Later
Posted by: Jubal | 01/22/2008 12:04 PM
It's been 35 years since the U.S. Supreme Court's misbegotten Roe v. Wade decision threw open the floodgates for legalized abortion, ran rough-shod of states' rights and polarized our politics, and permitted the ongoing extinguishing of the lives of millions of unborn children."America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters"
"And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."--------
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "--------
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-- Mother Theresa
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Matt, thank you for posting this.
Every once in a while, we have to step back from the trees and look at the forest.
That we are a nation that condones infanticide makes me ill.
I don't know if it is appropriate to throw politics into this. However, with Fred Thompson dropping out it may be appropriate to note that Norma McCorvey, in expressing her changed views on the decision, has today endorsed Ron Paul for President.
"On the 35th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling, Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. "Jane Roe," who later changed her views on abortion in the mid-90s) gave Paul her official endorsement today.
"I support Ron Paul for president because we share the same goal, that of overturning Roe v. Wade. He has never wavered on the issue of being pro-life and has a voting record to prove it. He understands the importance of civil liberties for all, including the unborn," she said at a press conference in Washington this morning.
Paul accepted the pro-life activist's endorsement, saying of abortion: "It is still one of the most crucial issues of our day that we deal with this. As much as I talk about economic liberties, and civil liberties, and trying to avoid the killing overseas, I think the issue of life is paramount."
That's a great point Andy. Ron Paul is the strongest pro life candidate left standing in the GOP field right now.
A true Libertarian approach would be to stay out of this debate.
Are women too stupid to make this choice for themselves that the government needs to make it for them?
So if abortion is made illegal, what should the punishment be for a woman who has an illegal abortion?
Yeah, women are kinda dumb. We are the deciders! next thing you know, they will want equal pay to afford health care, job training and a lawyer to try and get the back child support I refuse to pay for.