Monday, September 28

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...