The abortion faux outrage

June 27, 2022. Living in a constitutional republic -- not a direct democracy -- should remind us of both words, 'constitutional' and 'republic.' The former means that the Constitution is the place to look for rights, laws and governing procedures. The latter term represents the nature of the united states of America, a republic consisting of fifty states and not governed by a single, federal authority. Our 'country' is really a collection of states, with rights that take precedence whenever the federal constitution takes no position on a right. Democracy occurs at the state level, where states are free and welcome to make their own laws about abortion.

Yet perhaps the first thing noteworthy observation of the recent turning over of Roe v Wade is that abortion has been been prohibited by the court; they just turned the decision over to the individual states. There is no 'right' to abortion, directly or indirectly, in the U.S. Constitution, not even implied by a pseudo 'right to privacy' invented by the court in Roe.

It is also worthy of note that even those other countries decrying this recent ruling, they have more restrictive laws than much of the United States. They offer no 'right' to abortion on demand at any stage of the pregnancy, or after birth, as some states now allow.

Instead of stable, traditional families, with two parents in the home, gainful employment for at least one of them, and kids that attend decent schools and are likely to be able to qualify and pay for college, we have a devolving sense of the "new normal."And with it comes single-parent households, rampant violent crime in the streets, opioid epidemics, street gangs, schools with no (prospect of) learning occurring, and worse.

These data, contrasting 1970 with 2013, tell a sad if not tragic story. It is hard to think about how much further we have fallen in the ten years since this report.

People demand rights paid for by others, namely with taxpayer-funded "money from the government," yet also subsidies like "need-based" financial aid, where one student's tuition pays fort the grant offered to another student.

People shirk responsibilities, like abandoning their families or the mothers of their children, by leaving their jobs to live off of subsidies, by retiring 'early' and living off of dwindling and unsustainable Social Security payments, by abusing their health with drugs, alcohol, poor nutrition, junk food, and a lack of exercise.

Politicians promise the world to those with little, yet not to those with none, by taxing the middle class in America to subsidize the non-working middle and lower classes in America, and by importing millions of low-skilled, uneducated immigrants to lower wages and to "do the jobs Americans won't do," which they won't do because the government makes it less profitable and less comfortable to work than to stay at home. And those same pols who decry "excess" profits, or wealth, they profit greatly by their time in office, often accruing great wealth from their political maneuvers disguised as service yet clearly self-serving. These same politicians who protest the reversal of Roe v Wade pay lip service to the death of thousands stemming from violent crime in their own cities while supporting the (right to demand the) death of infants in the womb.