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22 Dec 2005 11:42:57 PM |
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Why Roe v. Wade Was a Dreadful Mistake |
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Roe v. Wade, a mistake
Posted By: Llucien Old Friend
Posted At: 11/22/05 22:45
Few Supreme Court decisions have ever generated the debate that Roe v.
Wade of 1973 has generated. Even today over 30 years later the case is
used as a litmus test by liberals across the country to determine a
candidate's worthiness to sit upon the Supreme Court. Unfortunately,
the decision reached by the court was quite simply wrong. The
affirmation of abortion by the Supreme Court has to be considered one
of the greatest steps backward by our nation and our nation has
suffered greatly for that decision. Since the landmark decision, over
40 million deaths can be attributed to abortion. The Roe v. Wade
decision is wrong on legal, social/economic, and moral lines. All
dimensions of this great mistake will be examined and explained.
The legal issue of Roe v. Wade is both simple and quite complex. Both
of these aspects are explained and supported best by the dissenting
opinion by then Associate Justice William Renquist. First and foremost
is the simple concept of standing. Quite simply Roe was not a pregnant
woman in her first trimester when the case was brought forward to the
Supreme Court. In fact as Renquist states in his dissenting opinion Roe
may have been in her third trimester (Renquist 1973). This places the
entire ruling in jeopardy. The ruling did not grant women carte blanch
to receive abortions in the third trimester, it did grant women the
right to get abortions during the first trimester. Quite simply for the
court to make its first trimester abortion ruling it needed a pregnant
woman in her first trimester to bring the case forward. The United
States Supreme Court does not make rulings on theoretical situation.
This has been a long standing position of the court. Justice Renquist
goes on further to explain that the interpretation used for both the
fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment of the Constitution were
flawed and in no way in accordance with typical rulings of those
amendments. The Supreme Court does not make law nor does it rule over
whether a law is right or wrong. The Supreme Court's sole
responsibility in a case such as this is to determine the
constitutionality of the law. Since the Texas laws which forbade
abortion had clauses set to protect the mother's health there is
nothing that can be considered unreasonable and, thus, nothing
un-constitutional about said law.
While the legal aspects of Roe v. Wade are important they are also of a
technical level and do not look at abortion and how it affects society.
The damage done to our country is one that cannot be calculated.
Furthermore the arguments used to support abortion at a social level
are flawed. As reported by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) there
have been 34 million legal abortions preformed in the United States
between 1973 and 2001 (MMWR Surveillance Studies 2004). These numbers
are actually low when compared to the 32.5 million abortions from 1973
to 1996 as recorded by AGI, a research affiliate of Planned Parenthood
and pro-abortion group. Extrapolating both numbers out to 2005 give us
an estimate of 38 million, using the CDC numbers, and 45 million, using
the Planned Parenthood numbers. Planned Parenthood supports abortion
and has no reason to lie about the totals so we can consider 45 million
to be an accurate figure for abortions projected thru 2005. This is
further reinforced by the fact that the CDC's numbers starting in
1998 no longer include some non-reporting states such as California.
Now let us measure this number against the current population of the
United States. Current population numbers place the United States at
293 million (Census Estimate 2005). Without abortion our population
would be around 338 million. Abortion has decreased our nation's
total population by 15%. Abortion at this point has removed that 45
million from the age range of 1 to 32 years old. That segment of the
population per the same estimates is 215 million, without abortion that
number would be 260 million, a decrease of nearly 20% in that age
range. The median age in the United States stands at 36 years old. This
compares very unfavorably with similar industrial nations without
abortion such as Argentina where the median age is in the upper 20's.
This aging of our population continually puts a greater and greater
strain on our country. As more and more people reach retirement age
there are less working members of younger generations to help pay for
their retirement as well as the increased medical costs. Abortion
clearly has an economic implication that cannot be ignored. As people
talk of the strain to the system imagine 30 million more tax paying
Americans who could be there footing the bill, or the additional 1
million additional tax payers that could be entering the system every
year. Another aspect to consider is the additional medical cost
associated with abortion. Nine out of ten women at risk of pregnancy
use contraception. Nearly half of all abortions are performed on those
one in ten women who are sexually active and chose not to use
contraception (Daily Herald 19). Abortion is not an effective form of
contraception. Unlike condoms it does nothing to stop the spread of
sexually transmitted diseases. Unfortunately, with legal abortion
acting as a get out of pregnancy free card for any woman interested it
has increased our society's risk to sexually transmitted disease thru
its use as after the fact contraception.
Morally, abortion is an abomination that knows no bounds. Americans and
the rest of the world were horrified by the Holocaust of the Nazis
which all said and done killed 12 million people male and female, young
and old of Jewish and other non-Aryan ethnic backgrounds. Over 300,000
rapes are committed a year. Both of these facts are considered outrages
but are small numbers when compared to the million plus abortions
committed each year. The rape statistic incidentally illustrates one
argument used to support abortion. The anguish of bearing of a child
produced through rape is given as a reason to support abortion.
Statistics supplied by the FBI show that 4.7% of rapes result in
pregnancy (American Rape Statistics 3) this averages out at 15,000
pregnancies per year, a horrible number but hardly one usable to
justice 1 million plus abortions per year. In another moral quandary
organizations track and deplore every death penalty execution in the
United States and around the world. In 1998, Amnesty International
records 98 executions in the United States. That is ninety-eight
executions of serial killers, murderers, rapists, and terrorists. All
of these executions are heralded by liberals in this country as a great
crime, yet at the same time 1 million plus murders of innocent unborn
children are called "a woman's right to choose". We can only
imagine who is spinning in their grave over this hypocrisy.
One has to ask if a woman's right to chose is worth this. In fact to
call it a woman's right to chose is inaccurate. Other than in the
instance of rape every woman has the right to chose to have sex. A
woman also has the right to use contraception. As mentioned earlier
nearly half of abortions are given to women who remain sexually active
while refusing to use contraception, this is an irresponsible and
dangerous practice. What does it say about a society that values its
own young so little that it butchers them in the womb before they even
have a chance at life? Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in
this country by couples who want to have a child but due to medical
issues cannot. Tens of thousands of babies are adopted each year and
the waiting list of couples willing to adopt is quite long and growing
longer. There are solutions for unwanted children, proactively in the
use of proper contraception and reactively in the form of adoption.
Both of these choices are far superior to the current law and the
wholesale slaughter of unwanted children by the Roe v. Wade decision.
Works Citied
Stanley K. Henshaw. et al.,"Abortions Services in the United States.
1991 and 1992,"
Family Planning Perspectives. vol.26, no.3 (May/June 1994). p.101.
USA Today. August 14, 1996.p. A17. attributed to the AlanGuttmacher
Institute.
"Abortion still the First Question". Daily Herald. November 13,
2005. p. 19
United States. Justice Blackman. Opinion of the Court. Rove v. Wade,
1973
United States. Justice Renquist. Dissenting Opinion, Roe v. Wade, 1973
"Amnesty Internation releases statistics on worldwide executions for
1999, calls for moritirum",.Amnest International, April 18, 2000
Marchione, Marilyn. "Cancer takes over top spot as killer of
Americans over 85". Livescience.com. November 17, 2005.
www.livescience.com/humanbiology/cancer_killer_050120.html
O'Bannon, Randall. "Out of the long dark night". Nlrc.org.
November 17,2005 www.nrlc.org/news/2003NRL01/randy.html
"American Rape Statistics", Paralumun.com. November 17, 2005.
www.paralumun.com/issuesrapestats.htm
Strauss, Lilo T, et al. "Abortion Surveillance United States,
2001". Center for Disease Control. November 26, 2004.
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| Title: Re: Why Roe v. Wade Was a Dreadful Mistake |
23 Dec 2005 09:23:26 AM |
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"words of truth" <wordsoftruth@hoshmail.com> wrote...
http://p076.ezboard.com/fhistorypoliticsandcurrentaffairs68862frm2.showMessage?topicID=110.topic
Roe v. Wade, a mistake
Posted By: Llucien Old Friend
Posted At: 11/22/05 22:45
Before I respond to this load of already-refuted crap, how much of this post
did you actually read, and how much of it do you believe? Are you willing
to read factual rebuttals? Are you prepared to change your mind, based on
the facts?
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| User: "Sanitys little helper" |
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| Title: Re: Why Roe v. Wade Was a Dreadful Mistake |
23 Dec 2005 03:45:04 AM |
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On 22 Dec 2005 21:42:57 -0800, words of truth wrote:
Few Supreme Court decisions have ever generated the debate that Roe v.
Wade of 1973 has generated.
There's only a debate at all because some ricketty quasi-senile old cleric
in ridiculous clothes decided from theology, not fact, that abortion was
murder, and millions of minions who can't think for themselves (not even a
majority of Roman Catholics) felt obliged to go along with it.
Without this pointless and futile debate, the appaling nightmare of illegal
and late abortions would have ended decades ago.
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow, we eat, drink and be merry.
D Silverman FLAHN, SMLAHN
AA #2208
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