Posted on 01/22/2013 8:24:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Roe v. Wade, the SCOTUS decision that legalized abortion in the United States, marks a dubious 40th anniversary on Tuesday, January 22, 2013. According to published data by the Guttmacher Institute more than 55 million abortions have been performed during the last four decades.
Abortion -- and those children who were never born – exist in a place that is primarily out-of-sight and out-of-mind. Although legally protected, abortion is among the few unspeakables in American society. Thus, comprehending the impact on American society is even more difficult. In a sense, it is hard to understand that which you never see.
Consider for a moment, however, that the consequences of Roe are deeply into the second generation. About 30 million of those aborted children would by now be of child bearing age themselves. New families would have been created resulting in an additional 20 million or more children based on normal demographic statistics.
So, in just a macro-population sense, the forty years since Roe v. Wade has eliminated a population roughly the size of California, New York, and Florida combined from American society. If those lost to abortion, including the lost second generation, were a nation, they would be about the size of Germany – the 16th largest country in the world by population and the fourth largest economically.
America appropriately agonized after the loss of innocent life in Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado. Mothers, fathers, citizens and leaders are still struggling to reconcile those and other tragedies. As a society, we also need to reconcile the tragedies involving the people we never meet, with the faces we cannot see, that happen every day.
How’s that Constitutional right to privacy working out for ya (he said as he prepared to lay his most personal and private financial details out to the IRS).
It gets even worse.
Blacks babies have a 40% abortion rate. In many states (like NYS) it is just about 50%.
Think about that - half of your “people” being aborted in the womb but republicans are evil.
Ask your friends that our pro choice..”Do you support sex selection abortion”?
Yup. Now how about a twist? Raise the unwanted children as an adult standing army? Unwanted now & unwanted later.
“Roe v. Wade, the SCOTUS decision that legalized abortion in the United States,”
That is not how I understand Roe. What it actually did was to establish a “right to privacy” between a doctor and patient. Regardless of the actual “procedure.” That established “right to privacy” was then used to secure the “right to the medical procedure of abortion without government interference.”
With this Executive Action, Obama eliminates this “right to privacy” with the stroke of a pen:
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
What the left parroted as a fear under a Romney presidency, they just applauded when done by their idol.
how much money would those adults be earning and paying into the treasury and Social Security and etc?! The "economic" impact of those lost lives is incomprehensible. I do NOT mean to reduce those lives merely to economics, but their absence is a factor in our nation's economic woes. People who could be earning livings, finding cues to cancers, inventing things, paying taxes, etc. etc. etc. simply do not exist because of someone's selfish "choice."
why not just develop an artificial womb?
since viability is already a major issue (in criminal cases too), an artificial womb pushes the viability and adoption issue into the mainstream.
It also gives fathers a fighting chance to have a paternity cliam since an artificial womb removes the reproductive control of a woman’s body issue from the debate.
These are unwanted babies so KILL them NOW or they may turn out to be a burden later.
Great logic you have there.
Especially given there are waiting list for American couples that wait YEARS (or go overseas) to adopt a baby.
Yup. Now how about a twist? Raise the unwanted children as an adult standing army? Unwanted now & unwanted later.
I’d say the ‘womens body’ issue is already moot, and should be argued with the following points:
1) The child is its own being, egg from mom, sperm from dad. It is no longer a ‘part’ of mom to do with as she wishes. Great fine/prison term for knowingly harming the same.
2) There is already a lengthy, and expensive, setup for adoption of those already in the system. Why not make the process easier and/or adoptive parents work with the expectant mother (room/board/care/eduction/etc.) until the child is born.
2) If paternal rights are given up when a women no longer wishes the baby, the reverse should also be true: No $$ from daddy. Even up the obligation rights and soon enough the consequences have actions (lower rate); shack up just to shack up doesn’t mean easy abortion and poss. no $$ from ‘donor’
When he was just beginning his career Jesse Jackson used to rail against abortion as genocide against the black race.
Of course when he hooked-up with the Democrat Party Union-Beltway-Feminist-ThinkTank Money Machine they “got his mind right”.
unfortunatly the courts do not see it that way. The fetus is the body of woman UNLESS there is an argument for independent viability.
by creating an artificial womb, the lack of independent viability is no longer a shield for feminists.
If anything, a fetus could be adopted while in the artificial womb. Abortions would shift to fetus adoption with the mother giving up her rights.
It would change the entire dynamic of the legal argument.
A nightmare scenario for those few feminazis.
My point was to use science against them. 40 years and technology has greatly improved. Define the fetus/baby as its own genetic mix along with 3D videos of in-utero/etc. Use their tools against them.
Them lock down the more kids = more $$ gravy train (one I’ve always loved is the ‘Bastard Courts’. No daddy name = no $$, then go after daddy as well)
I do wonder what stress would be placed upon the child in the ‘transfer’ to A.W.
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