The Supreme Courtjesters were on a roll.
Yeah, we already knew this Roe v. Wade thing was coming, but now it's here. I think the timing is good because it deflected the Left-statist meltdown over the pro-gun ruling that was made hours earlier, giving them another cause to flip out over.
I don't really care about the abortion issue. So I'm at least willing to consider what government says about it (even if I'll probably reject their opinion on principle).
I don't see how abortion could be a natural human right unless it is a clear case of self-defense, nor any logical way for it to be a constitutional right.
Nowhere does the Constitution say "the right of women to end a pregnancy shall not be infringed".
Nor does it say the federal government has the "authority" to demand pregnant women not end their pregnancy.
It is silent on the matter, which means the federal government has no legitimate say. Even if this falls under the Ninth Amendment, I've always seen that as an indication it is outside of things government has "authority" over.
Obviously, the correct place for such decisions is with the individual, not with government-- but government doesn't like to turn loose of power. So, the Supremes kicked the control back up to the states-- which in such ambiguous cases is probably somewhat better (which is different from ethical) than letting the feds control the matter.
I have my doubts that those who are most angry over the opinion understand it-- they are just taking their cues from those who tell them what to be outraged about. But the rage is real and may be dangerous.
I'll be on heightened alert for generalized violence from angry Left-statists, just in case, even though anything targeting me would be based on assumptions about my opinion. This area is probably exceptionally safe under the circumstances. I don't take it for granted, though.
(I've always been amused that "roe" is fish eggs-- fish reproduction. How fitting.)
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Excellent post. Recent events have me thinking on this matter also and I agree that this is essentially a self-defense issue. Regarding the issue of abortion, as is usual and typical for most collectively and coercively imposed ‘solutions’ (sic), the groups on both sides are wrong. On one pole are those who think that what a person desires should be treated as a right and that no one should be able to either prevent them from doing it or to require them to bear individually the full costs and consequences of the act and even that they can compel another to provide it. On the other side are those who believe that this extremely personal matter is something that outsiders with ‘no skin in the game’ nevertheless have the authority to forbid and completely control even though it intimately and physically involves an individual’s personal bodily autonomy. It seems clear that this matter should be properly dealt with as an individual choice and not one subject to prior or preemptive social control and that by necessity the subsequent responsibility is also wholly that of the individual making the choice. The choice made can run the gamut of both ‘good’ and ‘bad’; from the completely necessary such as to save the life of the person bearing the fetus or to justly spare them from bearing the offspring of a forcible rape to the almost trivial and spurious employment of the practice as a form of routine birth control or a substitute for a more selective sexual conduct. Government, supposedly acting for society, has imposed its views on this matter from both sides ostensibly because it involves the taking of a life, but the hypocrisy of this is plainly evident when society itself deals far more irresponsibly and cavalierly with human life and on a much larger scale through its near constant bloody and destructive war making and its judicial executions. This is not an issue that the governments of this country, at any level, were explicitly authorized in their constitutions to deal with and that abstention and thus leaving the matter to individual choice is still the most proper and just solution.
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