Goodly Shepard. This is my first time visiting this site. To this day, I have never posted to a website, and only submitted an article for a blog once, but upon seeing this open and oft firey forum, I admit that I became excited about the prospect of posting an article or reply, and have simply been purusing the categories to find the proper place. Upon reading your superbly written article, I was finally convinced to write, so I thank you for the elicitation.
I wanted to post to you because I wanted to tell you a specific story about an extraordinary event that I experienced one time. By way of circumstance, I got to have a sit down conversation with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for about 2 hours. He was a fascinating person to speak with, and he basically preached to me the entire time (which was fine, I was a young man, so I was definitely the student to his professor). He produced a copy of the United States Constitution, he kept it in his inner-breast pocket. He said, “Lee, I’ve read this document. Hell, I’ve read it more than once. Now I’m not a really smart man, to be honest, but no where in this entire document can I ever find the words that a woman’s right to abort her unborn fetus shall not be infringed upon.”
Scalia explained to me during that conversation that it wasn’t abortion he was against, not as a judge anyway, but it was what he felt was a subversion of the established system, that thing laid down by our forefathers, by men who were overstepping their well-established boundaries.
“If,” he continued, “...if the nation wants to abort its unborn, fine. But then let the nation stand and say so, and let it be written into law.”
God bless...
Lee
Interesting post!
Welcome to FreeRepublic, by the way. I saw your other (original) thread and I know you got a bit clobbered (I piled on a little myself—sorry about that!). While you’re new and finding your way around FR, take it easy on the vanity posts—and be sure to proof them really thoroughly before submitting. The Viking Kitties show no mercy when they suspect a troll, or even a well-meaning newbie, as you’ve discovered by now.
Hang in there!
Regards,
TXBlair