Secession, States’ Rights and Abortion
11/18/04 Update: FoxNews has a piece here that discusses what I point out below.
The idle talk of secession by the Blue States from the USA made me realize something.
Regarding Abortion, the Democratic party’s fetishistic devotion to this controversial procedure revolves around the 1973 Supreme Court Decision Roe v. Wade. I am not a legal scholar, but I have learned a thing or two despite my earning a degree at university.
Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on the federal level by granting it federal protection through a “right to privacy” that does not explicitly exist in the Constitution. As such states could not pass laws outlawing the procedure because to do so would violate federal law.
Overturning Roe v. Wade would NOT make abortion illegal in all 50 states. Should Roe v. Wade be overturned, the legality of the procedure would be decided at the state level, since the US Constitution explicitly states that any law not decided at the federal level should be handled at the state level.
The irony of the Liberal’s religious belief in abortion then becomes apparent:
Liberals are chafing at federal rule by the great “unwashed” in the Red States as evidenced by the talk of secession, yet they are against states rights.
This leads to the following conclusion:
Liberals don’t care about women or their “right to choose”. Instead they care about forcing their beliefs on those who find them morally repugnant.
I recognize that the Democrats are going through some soul searching, but they must because they have lost touch with mainstream America. What’s the mainstream? Look at a Red/Blue map by county, and notice the sea of Red – even in the Blue states. That is the mainstream.
Democrats need to get real. Electing Howard Dean head of the DNC isn’t getting real.
I want an alternative to the Republican Party, but so far the Democratic Party is not it.
