I adore history for those of you who couldn’t gather that from my recent posts. Recently, I’ve given up a year of reading and studying Napoleonic and French Revolution history to move to Modern American History. Now I’m a Republican, that’s undeniable, but I can adore the actions of both parties in the last hundred and ten years. Teddy Roosevelt never ceases to amaze, Wilson was a force to be reckoned with, Hoover did what he thought was best, FDR was simply unbelievable at acting at his specific time, Truman is fascinating, Eisenhower strong-willed, Kennedy was an icon, Reagan was stunning, Obama’s story is unbelievably moving. I even love looking into the Supreme Court and making my opinions on that. Brown v. Board of Ed was perfect, Bush v. Gore was the lesser of two evils, even Korematsu v. US is understandable, though terrible, but Roe v. Wade is simply inexplicable in my opinion.
Abortion has been around for a long time, for sure, but it has always been against the human conscience. Early Americans viewed Abortion as socially unacceptable, probably why it wasn’t even thought to be added to the Constitution specifically, and in the Mid-1800′s Abortion became legally difficult, frowned upon, and illegal in many states. This was the way it was, with a number of exceptions, through the first half of the 19th and up until the fantastically liberal Warren Court.
We know the basics of Roe v. Wade. Texas has state laws making banning most abortions, Jane Roe sued to have these laws removed. The Supreme Court chickened out of making a real decision and said they couldn’t decide whether a fetus was human and thus, through a made up right to privacy, abortion was legal in certain trimesters. I’m not going to get into the Trimester crap, regardless of which side you’re on Abortion is truly the best example there is of a Black and white issue. So Texas laws were reprimanded and Abortion became legal, through the Supremacy Clause, everywhere across the nation.
Before we talk ethics and morality, let me talk legally for a second. The Constitution exists because it is the law of our country, it is the LAW not the guidelines or the suggestions. I just can’t fathom how it can be a philosophy that the Constitution can be extended on, and stretched but reason. It is there for a reason and it is what it is. Let’s say it’s fine to stretch the Constitution though, so the Justices created this Right to Privacy that is somewhere in the First, fourteenth, and useless ninth amendment. Why then, why, did the Justices take the hardest route in stretching the Constitution to legalize abortion when it would be so easy for them, not to stretch, but to slightly tug the Constitution to prove abortion’s illegality! The people, the right to life, common sense of morality, the protection of the general welfare of people! How can they overlook all of that to stretch the Constitution to legalize women terminating and killing their babies. Madness to me.
Now common sense morality obviously is Pro-Life. Yeah the argument is, “Well I’m not ready for a baby, I can’t afford it, I’m too young.” Well it’s time to reap what you sow, it’s time to realize that if something bad happens, it doesn’t mean you can kill someone. If I lose my job on my wedding day I can’t kill my wife-to-be because I can’t afford to support her! I can, however, end the marriage and pregnant mothers-to-be can give their babies to people who long for children, but can’t have them. I’m sorry that you have to lose your figure and carry a baby for nine months, I wouldn’t be happy about it and I’m sure it’s incredibly difficult, but there is nothing so terrible that can happen to you to make you earn the right to end a life! If a woman is ending a life because she doesn’t want to deal with nine months of pregnancy then she is sick, delusional, sadistic, and above all else SELFISH.
The mere fact is that Abortion is murder, and I certainly don’t like the idea of nine unelected men in robes tearing the Constitution that is the supreme law of the land to tell me who can and can’t kill other people. It’s morally, legally, and simply wrong.
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