I’m saddened by the Supreme Court ruling that Roe v. Wade was unconstitutional; not by the ruling itself, but by the reactions that get public exposure.
Billie Joe Armstrong is renouncing his U.S. citizenship over it. He’s the leader of the band Green Day, an amazing talent. Other celebrities use terms like horrified, heartbroken, and terrified. Others say many women and young girls will suffer agonizing deaths. People in positions of power were claiming that the ruling took away a woman’s control over her own body even though there will be states with legal abortion.
There were rare instances of thoughtful reflection regarding Amendment 14. These stop short of a mention of the real issue: Who is covered? Terminology is everything in politics today. There’s something kinda gross about holding a fetus in your hands compared to holding a baby. If the baby wets it’s even cute. Just being a fetus, yuck.
Abortion advocates call it a procedure, as if it is removing a tumor. Someone who sees a fetus as a baby would call it murder. It all depends on where you draw the line. Conception is an actual point in development. Evident fetal heartbeat is even arbitrary as detectability may change with improvements in technology. The weeks of age benchmark included in a lot of abortion laws belies the fact that there is actually a baby in there. It’s a guess, a compromise.
The 14th Amendment argument hinges on the fetus vs. baby question and on the very idea of the purpose of government. People who are familiar with extremely premature births have come to question where that viability line is. There are grownups who can’t take care of themselves. Both are a burden on society in the collective sense. Do we not all depend on each other?
Margaret Sanger cannot be ignored in this discussion. She is at the root of modern day abortion culture. She wrote in her autobiography about birth control and the “Negro Project” promoting birth control while speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group. She advocated for a eugenics approach breeding for “ the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction of defective stocks – those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”
The overwhelming proliferation of Planned Parenthood “clinics” in minority neighborhoods is testament to the fact that Sanger’s grand plan is not dead.
Although black females are only 13% of the population, they account for 38% of abortions.
The wording in Amendment14 is vague in the same way as the “general welfare clause” in the preamble of the Constitution because of the fluid definition of “person.” It pretty much says anything goes. With all these unresolvable differences of opinion we need to fall back on the wisdom of federalism. That is what the Supreme Court did.
I’ve mentioned before liberal justice, Louis Brandeis. In New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann. Brandeis explained: “A single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”
In the spirit of Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson, today’s liberals believe federal power should prevail over the states. The skill and intelligence to manage society is so rare that we the people or the states lack the resources to adequately run things. Brandeis took a more scientific approach. So should we all.
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