Under 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.
