Letters to the Editor
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Anonymous
Look "anonymous" you can call me stupid all day long it doesn't bother me one bit. You are completely missing my point. You refuse to tell me how it's any of your business who has an abortion and how they choose to do it. Instead you provide broad and vague rebuttals to something that wasn't even meant to be an analogy. In short, tell me how you have decided that the moral route you have chosen is correct and what right you have to push it on others. Who is to say that they're right on a subject involving one's own human body? Your use of slavery and murder and Hitler is wrong because these are thing's that are only done maliciously and in blatant disregard for others. A late term abortion is usually made to protect someone, either the mother or the unborn child. You talk about abortion as if women think it's this fun thing to do. It's not fun, it's awful, and it's often the hardest decision a woman will ever have to make. And it's none of your business.
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Let's not forget...
Let's not forget that the SCOTUS decision also hands a juicy apple to Democrats. Abortion rights has long been the fear-button used by the Democratic Party to motivate voters (particularly women voters). The party now has incontrovertible proof that the threat posed by the GOP to women's reproductive rights is real. Anti-woman judges are no longer a spectre of fevered and fearful imaginations: they are now manifest.
Because it affects so few women and represents such a minority of abortions, and because the Court has placed its seal on the issue, it is now a politically "safe" topic to debate in public. For Democrats, it is a blessing in disguise: the dissenting justices plainly spell out the issue - the safety of the woman - which creates a classic moral/ethical dilemma concerning the "higher good" ("save the mother" vs. "save the baby"). Republicans can savor a small victory while continuing to rally their base with promises of more laws (and more pocket-sized justices).
This decision is a nice gift to those Democrats running for President, especially Hillary Clinton, who one hopes will not waffle and waver on this issue as she has done recently with regard to other controversial matters. Democratic candidates can now proudly proclaim their intent to restore "balance" to the Court. The direction each chooses to take on issue will say much about their character and candidacy.
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hodge-podge of assertions
"The decision is a hodge-podge of assertions"
You're obviously talking about Roe v. Wade, right?
--Anonymous
I actually think this is a good point, though perhaps not the point Anonymous was going for. Roe v. Wade was a messy decision. This was a messy decision. In matters involving women's reproductive rights, the legislature and the courts don't do a very good job.
And why? Because these are messy, personal decisions best decided by dispassionate medical advice and a woman's individual choice. Only these parties have the necessary information to do what is best.
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It's my business because ...
You refuse to tell me how it's any of your business who has an abortion and how they choose to do it.
It's my business because it's my moral duty to speak up when a moral evil is being comitted. I'm not talking about those rare exceptions when an abortion is the only possible course; even the Roman Catholic church allows exceptions when continuing the pregnancy will clearly kill the mother, e.g., an ectopic pregnancy or uterine cancer. But these are a tiny, tiny percentage of abortions performed, less than 2 percent. To make a generalized rule based on the tiny exceptions is foolish. (It's like saying everyone should be able to run a red light because police and fire trucks have to on occasion.)
The vast, vast majority of abortions are performed merely for the convenience of the mother or mother and the father.
It is morally wrong to take the life of a human being (and the baby in the womb is undeniably human, the science of which is indisputable, and the facts of which pro-abortion types never want to argue, relying instead on emotional disctractions). The morally flawed thinking behind Roe has led to all sorts of other monstrocities, including the withholding of basic sustenance (food and water) from human beings under the guise that it is withholding "extreme medical care."
There are such things as slippery slopes, and Roe unleashed a devastating moral free-fall upon this culture.
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Anonymous
How morally schizophrenic are we when the baby's chance to live depends merely on the whims of its mother and whether or not it is "wanted"?
How stupid are you to not realize that the decision to abort is not "whimsical" and is a decision that takes a great deal of agonizing deliberation and thought on the part of the woman who is carrying the fetus?
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Let's call their bluff
Do those who believe abortion is murder also believe that women who have abortions should be executed for their crime? After all, in most states, that's the penalty for people who commit premedidated murder, and getting an abortion would have to be premeditated.
If their answer is "yes," let's put their beliefs to the test and outlaw abortion. My guess is that after we've strapped a couple of their teen-age daughters to the gurney (sometimes Bible study just isn't enough), the whole debate over reproductive rights would be over.
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Cite Your Source
Anonymous writes: "the baby in the womb is undeniably human, the science of which is indisputable"
Please cites your scientific sources on the undeniable, indisputable humanity of a "baby in the womb."
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RKent
How stupid are you to not realize that the decision to abort is not "whimsical" and is a decision that takes a great deal of agonizing deliberation and thought on the part of the woman who is carrying the fetus?
Nowhere did I use the word "whimsical." I said "wanted" precisely because that's the word you often see in pro-abortion arguments, even having once been part of Planned Parenthood's motto: "Every child a wanted child."
If you can win your argument only by putting words in my mouth, well then you have no argument at all.
And no matter how "agonizing" a decision might be , some decisions are still wrong. Merely "agonizing" over anything doesn't give you a moral pass.