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Comment Doodlings – Life, Abortion, The Constitution, And Truth

gadsden_flag_don_t_tread_on_me_pacifierUnder Skip’s ongoing updates about the GOP Platform (not being updated), the subject of abortion, naturally, came up.  One comment took a familiar tack:

Life may start at conception, but the fact is that the child’s life is not covered by the Constitution until its born and hits American soil.
What the mother of an unborn child does with its life is between her and her maker. Its their business and theirs alone. Man should not be that presumptuous to think he has the authority or the moral standing to intervene in such a serious and intimate interaction between an individual and their God.

Life is a right that exists before men form governments so no Constitution applies here.  Governments are formed among men and constitutions written, our constitution at least, to protect those unalienable rights. Getting it wrong, deliberately re-imagining it, or simply changing it does not abrogate that which exists without it.

Of those rights, life is by far the most important for in its absence the other rights need not apply.  And yes,  life does begin at conception, for there is no other place for that thing we call life to begin.  In the absence of conception there is nothing to get wrong, no “something” to redefine, no need to make educated or even scientific guesses.  Without conception there is no spectrum on which to pick an arbitrary point out of convenience where you could then say–there!  At 20 weeks, or even my seventh birthday.  That was when my life began!

You can’t miss a train that never existed, nor can you derail it free of guilt because your government said it was not a train until it passed some particular station.

Without conception there is no debate, not that the question of “when” was ever anything more than a clever distraction on the spectrum of the lefts obsession with the actual purpose of abortion and contraception.

My comment?  Here you go.

You can’t use the constitution as an excuse because the Declaration observes that government should only exist to protect our unalienable rights–and that when it fails to do so it must be usurped

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness–these things are only possible if there is life, and life is not possible without conception–unless you know something I do not.

That sticky problem aside…

1) Abortion (and contraception) were never about women’s rights, they were about eugenics and culling the poor and undesirables out of society on the path to the progressive Utopia. Confusing these “issues” as anything else makes someone either a narrative mule or a useful idiot of the left–probably both.

2) If you create a subjective judgement about the value of life after conception then anyone can move the goal posts when it becomes convenient. And they have. The same people who defended abortion now overwhelmingly defend live birth abortion. The ‘experts’ who counselled those people have been advocating for extending the “mother’s” prevue (with or without her God) to several years after birth. See point #1 if you are confused as to why?

3) Life begins at conception, unless you can explain how your life even became possible, however old you are now, at some point after that? Or are you suggesting that an interruption between conception and birth would not have prevented that thing you have been doing since you first breathed air? What was that called again? Oh yeah – Life. See point #2 if you still doubt the need to be clear about when life begins.

A lot of people just ignore abortion because they are afraid of the hot potato. Maybe they can’t articulate it or don’t want to make waves. Far too many of us hide our heads in the sand and a significant number (many of them libertarians) just carry the lefts water on this issue. I used to do all of that. But more than a few years ago I realized what I was doing and stopped, even though that was an unpopular position to take–and still is.

I don’t care if it is unpopular.

Besides, I’m not telling women what to do, I am just telling them the truth about why they have been told it is OK to abort the unborn, and that there are reasons to believe that it is not.

It is not a constitutional issue and it is not necessarily a religious issue. It is a life issue before all of those things. And there is no life without conception. Everything after that is not subjective — unless you have some other agenda.

 

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