When I went through government class, back in the day, I remember being taught about the three bodies of our government and how they were set up as a check and balance on each other. For most of my youth, that appeared to be the case and government functioned with civility and there was respect for each governing body and their function within our form of government.
Today, I see civility is gone and there is no longer any type of check and balance functioning within the three governing bodies. Gone is the impartiality and reverence for the law that was to be the cornerstone of the Supreme Court. That flew out the window with the overreach of the Citizen's United Case. Gone is the civility between the Congress and the President. When the President invites the leaders to the Whitehouse and they snub the advance in lieu of a fundraiser - you know there are serious issues.
Gone is the idea of settled law. Now states have thumbed their noses at the Federal law and said - " We don't care what the US law says, we are banning abortion in our state."
Daring anyone to challenge the laws being passed with the Supreme Court listing so far to the right, it would be a death knell for Roe v. Wade should anyone even THINK about it.
I have to ask myself - what has happened to the women? We still outnumber men here, yet our bodies, we are being told, are no longer ours to take care of and choose when the time is right for us to have a child. It doesn't matter to the men if we can't feed or clothe or care for the child after it is born. All that matters is that it is born. If they really cared about the child at all, then there would be healthcare for everyone - so that those children born - because abortion is being banned - would have wellness visits. The mother & the father would have parenting classes - there would be government intervention to locate the father and require the man to take responsibility for the children he fathers.
If these people really care about the children, they would demand that little girls be taught that they are worthy and give them every opportunity to succeed - just as they do little boys. They would take that football money and funnel it into success programs in the schools for these girls so that they can be taught that they do not have to give up a part of themselves to be with a man. Being with a man is a choice and they do not have to do anything they don't want to. Self-esteem is a powerful thing and women's sports programs help create young women with self-esteem. Women need to know that they can succeed in something other than creating babies. If these people really cared about children, every pregnancy would be a wanted pregnancy and there would be no need for abortion.
Until that happens the need for abortion is there. Every woman has the right to choose what to do with her body and if this is a good time for her and her family to bring another life into this world. It is a very private, personal and gut-wrenching decision but it is hers to make. The Federal Law called Roe v. Wade allows her to make that decision without outside intervention. Banning abortion creates a new layer of government intervention. Bigger government, if you will. How many people will have to be hired to make sure that every woman who pops up with a positive pregnancy test goes to term? Wow, that would be a hellacious drain on state budgets - not to mention an intrusion on that woman's privacy having someone follow them around 24/7 for 9 months! Don't expect the feds to help you pay for that one!
If you take away the option of abortion, you relegate women to bad choices. Back alley abortions, self-inflicted abortions, which will inevitably lead to deaths or suicides. Unless, that is the intended outcome of the laws these legislators are hoping for...I ask, how is this any better than Iraq? Iran? The Taliban? Isn't this how Hitler started his march on the masses?
With the current spate of legislation coming through not only at the federal level but at the state level, one has to wonder if the Theocratizing of America will be its undoing while the rest of the world becomes democratized with the ideas that Americans have wanted all along...
The other option is to sterilize the upcoming generation of girls. That would eliminate the need for abortion and also reduce the angst these legislators feel about having to deal with child-bearing women. Sound ridiculous? Yep, about as ridiculous as banning abortion - Settled Law.
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