Abortion and You

dean_acheson · 01-25-08, 04:45 PM

I think that we have mildly skirted a more important issue here:

"Do you think Abortion should remain a right to American Citizens."

The fact is, is that the way things are now, us "American Citizens" have absolutely NO SAY in if abortions are legal or not legal. The US Supreme Court has decided that for all of us.

Really nice of them.

When the USSC handed down the Roe decision, they overrode every statelaw on the issue. The said that a woman has some fuzzy 'right to privacy' that extends to her womb. This "constitutional right" allowed her to terminate her pregnancy. This 'constitutional right' that Justice Douglas found in the 'penumbras' of the Bill of Rights removed this decision from every elected politician in the country.

The day that the one unelected branch of the United State government decided that it was up to them to decide a moral issue of this import, was a poor day in the Court's history, as black as the day that prior Courts handed down Dred Scott, the Plessy case, Lochner, or any other decision in which the US Supreme Court decided to make a moral decision to guide us poor misguided fools that make up the electorate.

Until the Court decides to throw Roe on the scrap heap of history and allow us to have a debate on this matter, and decide the issue in our state legislatures, where according to any honest reading of the U.S. Constitution would place it, this matter is for all intents and purposes settled.

An aside note: Many pols. on both sides love the fact that they can get folks up in arms over this, since they can stir up their core electorate on the matter, when as things stand, this matter is one controlled by the Article Three branch of government.

View Poll Results: Do you think abortion should remain a right to American citizens?
Yes	45	66.18%
Undecided (Elaborate if chosen)	7	10.29%
No	16	23.53%
Voters: 68. You may not vote on this poll

01-25-08, 04:45 PM	#17
dean_acheson Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Midwest - USA Posts: 1,057 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	I think that we have mildly skirted a more important issue here: "Do you think Abortion should remain a right to American Citizens." The fact is, is that the way things are now, us "American Citizens" have absolutely NO SAY in if abortions are legal or not legal. The US Supreme Court has decided that for all of us. Really nice of them. When the USSC handed down the Roe decision, they overrode every statelaw on the issue. The said that a woman has some fuzzy 'right to privacy' that extends to her womb. This "constitutional right" allowed her to terminate her pregnancy. This 'constitutional right' that Justice Douglas found in the 'penumbras' of the Bill of Rights removed this decision from every elected politician in the country. The day that the one unelected branch of the United State government decided that it was up to them to decide a moral issue of this import, was a poor day in the Court's history, as black as the day that prior Courts handed down Dred Scott, the Plessy case, Lochner, or any other decision in which the US Supreme Court decided to make a moral decision to guide us poor misguided fools that make up the electorate. Until the Court decides to throw Roe on the scrap heap of history and allow us to have a debate on this matter, and decide the issue in our state legislatures, where according to any honest reading of the U.S. Constitution would place it, this matter is for all intents and purposes settled. An aside note: Many pols. on both sides love the fact that they can get folks up in arms over this, since they can stir up their core electorate on the matter, when as things stand, this matter is one controlled by the Article Three branch of government.