Abortion, The Real Issue
By omb on May 18, 2009 in Conservatism, Constitution, Obeyme, tyranny
B. Hussein Obama spoke at the Notre Dame commencement ceremony on Saturday, where he was granted an honorary degree- not sure in what discipline, but I’m guessing megalomania. ASU, as you may have heard, did not grant Obama an honorary degree when he spoke there. The official line was that the school said that Obama had not done anything of siginificance to warrant one being awarded, but I’m guessing it’s because they, like us, weren’t allowed to see Obama’s previous college transcripts.
Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame brought with it controversy and corresponding protests regarding abortion. Obama, a pro-abortion zealot when in the Illinois State Legislature, whose position on the subject could be summed up as follows: “When egg meets seed, it’s old enough to bleed – and anytime thereafter”, drew a number of high-profile and student protesters not enamored with the fact that ‘The Dark Knight Of The Third Trimester’ was speaking at a Catholic University and being honored with a degree. Arrests ensued, Obama said ‘Can’t we all just get along’, blah, blah, blah.
It seems more than a little naive that people who find abortion a moral affront to their faith and sensibilities could ‘find common ground’, as Obama put it, with those who are adamant that severing the head of a live baby from it’s body, while in the birth canal, is matter of choice for the woman and her ‘doctor’ (if that’s the correct term for these murdering bastards),and the taxpayer – oh, I’m sorry, not the taxpayer. Under the ‘ideal’ system, the taxpayer has no choice but to pay for abortion on demand. Sure, Obama also talked about adoption and prevention, but he’s made it plain where he stands on the issue. He doesn’t want to see a young girl ‘punished with a baby’ under any circumstances.
This whole episode was fairly predictable, in terms of outcomes. Obama tries to look like peacemaker between to warring parties. But like I said, we know where he stands – his voting record speaks for itself. No ‘present’ votes on abortion related issues, he voted with the baby killers everytime.
So, if it’s predictable and boring, why discuss it here on this most noble of blogs? Because there is a lot more to the abortion issue than meets the eye, in my opinion. Abortion is a cornerstone issue for the leftists, liberal, progressive, Marxist, anti-American statist, and I’m about to enlighten you as to why.
Choice, right? Wrong! This issue, branded by the left as an issue of personal choice, providing a woman the ‘liberty’ to control her own body, has nothing to do with personal choice for the left-wing power brokers. This is about debasing the populace from traditional Christian values upon which the Country was founded, blurring the line between right and wrong, subverting our Constitution, and ultimately toppling the notion of a Government by the people.
Why do I think this? Well let’s take a look at our system. Our Constitution is unique in the world in that it begins with the words, ‘We The People…’. In other words, the people, endowed with inalienable, natural rights from their creator, grant the authorization for their own governance through the instrument of the Constitution. Why would they do this? To provide for common defense for sure, and to ensure that all would abide by some basic moral beliefs and standards. The Constitution then grants authority to the government to enact laws to preserve the moral framework of society.
Our morality as a nation, like it or not, is based in The Ten Commandments from The Old Testament. All laws passed by Congress and signed into law by the President are thrown into contradiction and doubt when no shared moral basis can be found for the law. In fact, with no shared morality, there can be no society, and no rule of law – not to mention no right or wrong. By attacking and casting doubt on the natural right to life, and the Commandment “Thou Shall Not Kill”, the Statist’s, as Mark Levin has so aptly termed them, as an ultimate goal, hopes to debase the populace from it’s moral code, ultimately to replace the rule of law with arbitrary elitist rule.
Once debased from it’s foundations, the Constitution makes no sense because there is no absolute right and wrong, merely shades of grey, and can then be logically discarded in favor of a system by which ‘the rules’, rather than being founded in principles of shared morality and faith, will be constructed through the whim of the bureaucrat and apparatchik, with no Constitutional justification required. We then become a nation that is ruled, not governed by the people’s own sanction.
This is what is at stake and why Abortion is so important to the left. There are other examples such attacks on morality such as homosexual marriage and no-fault $9.99 divorces, and rampant near pornagraphic material on the television, but those are more subtle. Abortion cuts right through the Constitution, to the Declaration of Independence, where it is clearly stated that the among the natural rights, is life. This scourge also slashes through the 10 Commandments and Christianity itself.
I don’t know where you come down on the Abortion and I don’t really care – my point isn’t to lecture you on the subject, merely point out that there is a great deal more at stake than ‘a woman’s right to choose’. Personally, I don’t see how abortion can possibly be Constitutional in light of the original intent, not to mention the 14th Amendment. In fact, I can state plainly that it isn’t, in my opinion. Beyond that, I believe that it’s a matter for the States to resolve and has no place being ‘legalized’ at the Federal level, I bring up the Constitutional argument because it has been decided at that level in the Supreme Court(ours, not God’s).
As to a woman’s right to choose, she has that with or without legalized abortion. She has the right to choose to not open her legs in the first place. And I’ve heard all of the ‘what about this case’ and ‘what about that scenario’ and ‘people make mistakes’ and ‘what would you do if it was your daughter crap’ – all I know is that life is full of surprises not all of them are good, but two wrongs don’t make a right. By the way, I’m not what I would characterize as a religious zealot. I believe in God, but that’s about the extent of my association with organized religion.
Anyway, if you think I’m full of shit, fine. But before you decide, just take a look around at the level of abortion in countries where there are Marxist governments and dictators – or socialized medicine for that matter. If they can kill the unborn, they can kill anyone, anytime- and they are doing it. They, ‘the elite rulers’, will have total dominion over us lesser beings. In some Communist countries, women are forced to go to the abortionist, told how many children they can have, etc.. Is this the type of world our founders envisioned for us?
So, as I see it, the more fundamental debate is whether or not our Constitution is valid with respect to protecting the right to life, or any of our other natural rights. What does it say about us if we, as a matter of convenience, allow our natural rights to be denied to the most helpless of all, those with no voice and no means to fight back? How many Einsteins, Jeffersons, and Washingtons can be counted among the 50 million dead since this was effectively legalized? It is it’s own holocaust and we will be judged harshly by posterity for having allowed it to continue.
But that aside, were you to, on a globe, black out all of those countries where the people are ruled by laws, created of their own consent, that recognize their individual, natural rights, you’d find that there aren’t now, nor have there been in the past, too many places on the big blue marble that aren’t blacked out by this plague of tyranny. As Americans, we need to stand up for the unborn, or we have no right to that title. If we don’t, we’ll just be another blacked out spot on the globe that used to stand for something, not quite remembering what it was, and wondering where in the hell the sun went.
-OMB
OMB-Once again you have gone right to the heart of the issue. People actually can go to jail for killing a dog(and I am a dog lover by the way), but the most innocent of all have no voice, no chance and no justice. It is true that the progressives sell abortion as a womens’ issue but in the end it is just one more link in the chain which will eventually shackle us all. Good Read.
pj | May 18, 2009 | Reply
Test Post…
Do you mean “Dark Knight”?
Fluffy | May 22, 2009 | Reply
Thank you Fluffy. Missed that one.
pj | May 22, 2009 | Reply
I have to comment here. As a female I must weigh in. I don’t even know where to begin! The Constitution and morality? Killing is killing, no matter whom you are killing, whether it be a fertilized egg or an innocent Iraqi, a convicted murderer or a young soldier fighting a war he has no say in! Who gets to decide what is morally allowable? The Commandment reads” Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Period. If abortion is immoral so is every war. End of story. (…or maybe there are “gray areas” after all?)
The Founder’s Christian values? Deism and Reason were the flavor of some. Look at the Treaty of Tripoli,1797.
“‘We The People…’. In other words, the people, endowed with inalienable, natural rights from their creator, grant the authorization for their own governance through the instrument of the Constitution.” What exactly would ‘my own governance’ be if not the personal freedom to govern my own body and establish my own moral compass as I feel would be in agreement You think that because an egg has been fertilized that automatically that egg should come to between me and my God?
The Left? Does that make all women whose beliefs do not agree with yours Marxists?
Abortion is an issue that no self-aware woman takes lightly, and even if you say you don’t care what anyone else thinks, you ought to. You ought to think about the agony and the feelings that go into these decisions.
Have you ever heard of a ‘Mississippi Appendectomy’? It was forced sterilization of black women. Not too Constitutional sounding either, but it happened in this country. Maybe it was OK because it might have prevented an abortion!
My body is my body, keep the Constitution and politics off of it and out of it. Unless you have a womb, or have had something forced on and/or in you, as far as I’m concerned you are only entitled to the opinion you may keep to yourself, or share with your God.
Women are not forced to open their legs (unless being raped, wouldn’t you say?) but next time you want one to and she won’t, remember; there may be a little soul out there somewhere waiting to be born, and she is denying them the right to come into this world, and if she does, your condom is doing the same.
I don’t believe you can really grasp the heart of the matter until you have been to the center of this issue, which for any man would be an impossibility.
Fluffy | May 23, 2009 | Reply
The fertilized egg coming between and my God line was two sentences that were partially deleted and what was left was that weird run-on that made no sense, Sorry!
Fluffy | May 23, 2009 | Reply
Fluffy, “The Founder’s Christian values?”
-Yes, Christian values. That’s what they are called and they ARE what our rule of law is based on. Like it or not.
‘”The Commandment reads” Thou Shalt Not Kill.” Period.’
-Yes but in the context of the 6th commandment it means ‘thou shall not do murder’.
” What exactly would ‘my own governance’ be if not the personal freedom to govern my own body …”
-Govern your own body yes, but an unborn baby is another body.
“Abortion is an issue that no self-aware woman takes lightly…”
-This is not always true. I personally have known women who have aborted because it was inconvenient and embarrassing at the time to have a child. A baby died because it would have disrupted a lifestyle. It happens often. Not all men are rapists forcing themselves on women and not all women are innocent.
“Have you ever heard of a ‘Mississippi Appendectomy’? It was forced sterilization of black women. Not too Constitutional sounding either, but it happened in this country. Maybe it was OK because it might have prevented an abortion!”
-Of course this was wrong. Wait, maybe I cannot know this because I never experienced it?
“My body is my body, keep the Constitution and politics off of it and out of it. Unless you have a womb, or have had something forced on and/or in you, as far as I’m concerned you are only entitled to the opinion you may keep to yourself, or share with your God.”
-Agreed. The Constitution says nothing about abortion, let’s keep it that way. The less the federal government has to do in my life the better. The right to life is not granted us by any governing body or document but by our creator.
“Women are not forced to open their legs (unless being raped, wouldn’t you say?) but next time you want one to and she won’t, remember; there may be a little soul out there somewhere waiting to be born, and she is denying them the right to come into this world, and if she does, your condom is doing the same.
I don’t believe you can really grasp the heart of the matter until you have been to the center of this issue, which for any man would be an impossibility.”
-There is a big difference between preventing a pregnancy and aborting one.
The actual point of this article is not the abortion debate, but the tyranny which lies behind it. The undermining of the Constitution to render it void. I think you missed the point. Just my opinion, but because I have a womb I thought I’d chime in too.
pj | May 23, 2009 | Reply
“Unless you have a womb, or have had something forced on and/or in you, as far as I’m concerned you are only entitled to the opinion you may keep to yourself, or share with your God.”
–I meant to seperate this text out of the part I agree with! This is just wrong. There are actually men out there who grieve for the loss of unborn babies, and they are entitled to their opinions.
pj | May 23, 2009 | Reply
Did I say night? oh shit! Yes, I meant knight. Glad to see you can still post.
-OMB
omb | May 23, 2009 | Reply
Fluffy, I anticipated that were you to comment on this post, you might bring the death penalty up, i.e. how can pro death penalty be consistent with a pro-life opinion. That’s a fairly common argument – flawed, but common. The bible also teaches an eye for an eye, etc. and acknowledges the imposition of justice by society. I think the two positions are perfectly compatible. There has to be a shared morality, or than can be no rule of law. The Constitution was never intended to deal with every situation that may arise in any one’s life. For the Constitution to make sense, you have to possess common sense.
Also, you argument about only a woman can have a valid opinion on this is just fucked up. It reminds me of Dan Fouts(ex-nfl quarterback), as an announcer on Monday Night Football pontificating about “If you’ve never played the game, you just can’t understand what’s happening”. That is complete bullshit. I’ve never played professional football, and I can tell you that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Oakland Raiders suck!. Murder is murder, whether you are seeing it from a female perspective down the barrel of a gun, or at the end of a vacuum nozzle sucking out a viable baby’s brains so that the skull can be crushed to ease extrication.
What’s with the Mississippi Appendectomy comment, was that started by Margaret Sanger, mother of Planned Parenthood? You know she was a white supremacist, along the lines of Hitler, who wanted to see the black race eliminated by attrition? It wouldn’t surprise me, but in any case, I don’t get the point. It’s not really relevant to the discussion. Lots of questionable things have happened in the past, my concerns are with the future.
I stand by my comments on this, legalized abortion is part of a much larger push with the eventual aim being for us to surrender our inalienable right to ‘life’ to the government.
Thanks for commenting, I’ve missed your input!
-OMB
omb | May 23, 2009 | Reply