Common Folk Using Common Sense

The U.S. Senate is in full swing with the Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearings on Samuel Alito, Bush’s nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Oh most certainly there is a great deal of pontificating by various Senators grabbing face time on national TV.

But with all the speeches and questioning, there seems to be a particular pattern to the Hearings:

Liberals cannot seem to be able to get or stay elected. There are far more “red” states than there are “blue” states. The average U.S. citizen does not have the same interests and values as do the Liberals. So the Liberals have discovered that they can legislate from the courts; they seed the courts with fellow Liberal judges who then find a way to create law instead of interpreting law.

Therefore the U.S. court system has become the Liberal’s battleground. And Issue #1, the issue above all others, is Abortion. It is the “litmus test” by which all justices and elected officials must pass – say the Liberals.

Say what you like about abortion: it’s either a woman’s right or it’s murder. But the fact remains that abortion is the key issue to Liberals, and it will become the final fight in Alito’s hearings. Every statement he makes, every ruling he has ever made, will be weighed against his perceived opinion on abortion. Every other issue facing U.S. citizens are unimportant when you debate abortion, says the Liberals.

Throughout the history of abortion, induced abortions have been a source of considerable debate and controversy regarding the morality and legality of this practice. An individual’s position on the complex ethical, moral, philosophical, biological, and legal issues have a strong relationship with that individual’s value system. A person’s position on abortion may be best described as a combination of their personal beliefs on the morality of induced abortion, and that person’s beliefs on the ethical scope and responsibility of legitimate governmental and legal authority. Another factor for many individuals is religious doctrine.

Abortion debates, especially pertaining to abortion laws, are often spearheaded by advocacy groups belonging to one of two camps. Most often those in favor of legal prohibition of abortion describe themselves as “pro-life” while those against legal restrictions on abortion describe themselves as “pro-choice”. Both are used to indicate the central principles in arguments for and against abortion:

In a January 2006 CBS News poll:

• 27% responded that abortion should be “permitted in all cases,”
• 15% responded it should be “permitted, but subject to greater restrictions than it is now,”
• 33% responded it should be “permitted only in cases such as rape, incest or to save the woman’s life,”
• 17% responded it should “only be permitted to save the woman’s life,”
• 5% responded it should “never” be permitted.

So what is a fetus or embryo?

• A collection of tissue, not a human
• A collection of tissue, somewhat similar to a human
• A collection of tissue, very much like a human, but not yet a human
• A collection of tissue, wholly human

And what is abortion?

• The termination of a pregnancy associated with the death of an embryo or fetus.
• The termination of a pregnancy associated with the death of an unborn human, known as an embryo or fetus.
• The termination of a pregnancy by killing an unborn human being, referred to as an embryo or fetus.

My opinion, for what it’s worth, is that life begins at conception, and than any interference in that life is murder. A fetus or embryo is a collection of tissue, wholly human. Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by killing an unborn human being, referred to as an embryo or fetus.

Yes, a woman has absolute right and privacy to her body. But the unborn also has absolute right and privacy to its body.

Will “Roe vs. Wade” ever be overturned, and the debate sent back to the individual states? I hope so – that’s where it belonged in the first place. Let those states that think abortion should be legal have all the abortions they desire, and let all those states that think abortion is a bad thing restrict it to their population’s wishes.

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