Making a choice or making a mistake

February 1, 2021. In defending the 'right to choose,' Barack Obama once opined that had his daughter 'made a mistake' -- meaning 'had sex and became pregnant' -- she had the right to make a choice to terminate the pregnancy, that a mistake should not preclude her ability to choose. Only Obama, per usual, had it backwards: His daughter would have made a choice, and she should not be granted the freedom to make a mistake that resulted from her free choice.

My favorite former Jesuit pal once noted that his policy is choice is acceptable before sex, but not after sex, meaning that who or when you choose to have sex (with) should be your choice. However, after sex, were a pregnancy to result, there is no right to choose to end another's life.

The irony is the chest-thumping "We follow the science!" Democrat progressive crowd does not follow the science on life. It is eminently clear that life begins at conception. Simply put, since it is theoretically if not practically possible to place a fertilized embryo in another woman's uterus or even in a life support machine an then to see that embryo emerge to be able to survive outside the borrowed wood or apparatus, it is clear that there is life from the day of conception.

The oft-cited and usually misunderstood Row v Wade decision was bad not because it allowed abortion; it was bad because the decision was based on an indefensible "right to privacy." Fred Thompson's character on Law and Order dressed down his female assistant when she accused him of imposing his religious beliefs on others, stating clearly that his objection to Roe v Wade was the tortured logic of court, much like how the court allowed Obamacare to stand by rejecting Obama's own fatuous claim that the penalty for not purchasing a health insurance policy was a fine, not a tax. Apparently the president who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago failed to understand the difference between a tax and a fine. So the Supreme Court corrected him, then patted him on the head, and endorsed his mislabeled fine, and disastrous healthcare program.