The Court won't impose "Catholic values". The Court will ensure that even Catholics in society have a voice in our laws...
The abortion debate today is not the abortion debate of your Grandma's generation or even your Baby Boomer Ma.
Too
many birth control options, too much mandated sexual education, too
many non stigmas to girls who have sex outside of marriage, and
especially, too much science to show us there are three people involved
in the abortion decisions: the mother (who carries the baby in her
womb), the father (who provides the sperm) and the growing baby itself.
We
can't pretend this is just the woman's decision, like whether she wants
breast reduction surgery or to donate a kidney or have another part of
her lopped off. The baby has rights too, and some States will recognize
those unborn citizens.
Let the citizens of the State have a say in their laws and values. Not the Justices operating back in the early 1970s...
At the very
worst, we go back to being a society that more lovingly values sexual
intercourse (p in v) and values mothers. It's not just a screw, and
screw you. It's an act of reproduction.
If you don't want it
just to be fun and done (and truth be told, those days kinda ended in
the 80s with our understanding of AIDS transmission), you prepare, take
protection, and understand the full consequences of "failure" of such
protections...
No society has to allow death to innocents, if
that society votes to outlaw such procedures. A young woman who faces
that -- even in our times of knowledge of birth control -- OR an older
woman who finds herself having conceived a potentially "disabled" child
even in our age of birth control for those who do not want to conceive
"imperfects" at any age, especially late in their life, can travel to
those states that will still permit the death of a baby in the womb, OR
she can "give it up" for adoption at birth, OR, like so much in life,
she can learn to live with her "misfortune".
The days of
unquestioningly taking the life of a growing child in the womb (and make
no mistake, if left un-interfered with, that is what it is...) are over,
friends. This new Justice has a Downs' Syndrome son of her own. I am
sure she is horrified at the idea that millions just like him are killed
off for convenience every year in our country.
It's a child, not a choice.
Your
time for choice and to have control over your body comes before the
baby is created -- when the sperm meets the egg and the cycle of life
begins...
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