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PROVIDING SUBSTANTIVE COMMENTARY ON THE
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
PEOPLE, POLITICS, EVENTS AND ABSURDITIES OF
OUR TIME. SERVED UP WITH ACERBIC WIT, YOU
SHOULD FIND IT QUITE SATISFYING.
Happy Roe v. Wade 35th Anniversary Day!
Does anyone see the irony in the Martin Luther King holiday
being followed the very next day by the anniversary of the U.S.
Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision? Talk about a
stark moral juxtaposition.
King Day celebrates the life of a man who spurred a national
movement to grant oppressed and disenfranchised citizens the
same rights that other Americans took for granted. That's
certainly something to celebrate as it made America a better
place, not just for blacks, but for everyone. As King once said,
"many of our white brothers . . . have come to realize that their
destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is
inextricably bound to our freedom."
Roe v. Wade, on the other hand . . . Well, exactly why, or how,
do you celebrate a woman's right to destroy her unborn child?
Even if the mother was a victim of rape or incest, rubbing out
the innocent child is not exactly cause for jubilation. Of
course, the overwhelming majority of abortions are gotten
because somebody was too irresponsible to use birth control or
because, hey, my life is just way too hectic right now to, like,
deal with the inconvenience of becoming a mother.
But celebrating is what the National Organization for Women
(NOW) is doing, though, as can be seen on their website,
cautionary notes about vigilance and maintaining abortion
rights abound:
"Though we are celebrating 35 years of Constitutional
protection of a woman's right to abortion, we cannot let our
guard down. With so many limitations and roadblocks, the
promise of Roe is already denied to many women, and access to
birth control is under increasing attack."
Access to birth control under attack? Well, yeah, for
11-year-olds. Is that so unreasonable?
Nonetheless, to hear NOW and other hardcore abortion
proponents tell it, Roe v. Wade has provided the most
important and sacred right a woman has and as any halfwit
can see, while nowhere specifically mentioned in the
Constitution, leaps up off the pages from between the lines.
You know, as obviously intended by the Founding Fathers who
wrote the thing, even though we are also told they were all
misogynistic genocidal racists who viciously destroyed the way
of life of the native peoples of an entire continent. All the more
reason, then, to marvel at their singular wisdom of writing a
document from which abortion rights would be unearthed two
hundred years later.
Happy Roe v. Wade anniversary day, everyone!
Does anyone see the irony in the Martin Luther King holiday
being followed the very next day by the anniversary of the U.S.
Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision? Talk about a
stark moral juxtaposition.
King Day celebrates the life of a man who spurred a national
movement to grant oppressed and disenfranchised citizens the
same rights that other Americans took for granted. That's
certainly something to celebrate as it made America a better
place, not just for blacks, but for everyone. As King once said,
"many of our white brothers . . . have come to realize that their
destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is
inextricably bound to our freedom."
Roe v. Wade, on the other hand . . . Well, exactly why, or how,
do you celebrate a woman's right to destroy her unborn child?
Even if the mother was a victim of rape or incest, rubbing out
the innocent child is not exactly cause for jubilation. Of
course, the overwhelming majority of abortions are gotten
because somebody was too irresponsible to use birth control or
because, hey, my life is just way too hectic right now to, like,
deal with the inconvenience of becoming a mother.
But celebrating is what the National Organization for Women
(NOW) is doing, though, as can be seen on their website,
cautionary notes about vigilance and maintaining abortion
rights abound:
"Though we are celebrating 35 years of Constitutional
protection of a woman's right to abortion, we cannot let our
guard down. With so many limitations and roadblocks, the
promise of Roe is already denied to many women, and access to
birth control is under increasing attack."
Access to birth control under attack? Well, yeah, for
11-year-olds. Is that so unreasonable?
Nonetheless, to hear NOW and other hardcore abortion
proponents tell it, Roe v. Wade has provided the most
important and sacred right a woman has and as any halfwit
can see, while nowhere specifically mentioned in the
Constitution, leaps up off the pages from between the lines.
You know, as obviously intended by the Founding Fathers who
wrote the thing, even though we are also told they were all
misogynistic genocidal racists who viciously destroyed the way
of life of the native peoples of an entire continent. All the more
reason, then, to marvel at their singular wisdom of writing a
document from which abortion rights would be unearthed two
hundred years later.
Happy Roe v. Wade anniversary day, everyone!