On January 22, 2016, the 43rd anniversary of the horrible Roe v. Wade decision concerning abortion in America, President Obama made a statement advocating for abortion (click here to access statement). President Obama's statement reflects the standard talking points of pro-death abortion advocates. Let's think through his statement line by line.
First he says Roe v. Wade "affirmed a woman's freedom to make her own choices about her body and her health." This is the "pro-choice" argument. The problem is that it isn't logical. No woman in America has complete freedom of choice when it comes to her own body or her own health. For instance, there are laws against drug abuse. A woman doesn't have the legal right to make her own choice about her body in this instance. The law takes that choice away. She is not allowed to abuse drugs simply because that's what she chooses to do with her body. A second reason that this is illogical is that there are two patients in every abortion procedure- the mother and the baby. The mother cannot choose abortion without affecting the baby. So while the mother has a supposed right to choose for herself, that right cannot be excercised without her making the choice for the baby as well. This argument exhalts a woman's supposed right to unrestricted choice over every other American's ability to choose. She has far more power than the father, more power than the baby, and more power than anyone else who might advocate for the baby. It's not just her body she's excercising control over.
Obama continues: "The decision supports the broader principle that the government should not intrude on private decisions made between a woman and her doctor." This is also illogical. The government does intervene in some doctor/patient decisions. For example, there are certain procedures that a doctor cannot legally perform even if the patient requests them. There are certain drugs a patient may not legally have and a doctor may not legally prescribe. In these instances the government is intruding and taking unfettered freedom of choice away from patients and doctors. These restrictions are in place to prevent potential harm to the patient. Every abortion "procedure" guarantees that one patient in the room, the baby, will suffer irreparable harm. Why wouldn't the government have a responsibility to interfere on behalf of the defenseless child?
The president also said: "As we commemorate this day, we also redouble our commitment to protecting these constitutional rights, including protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her right to reproductive freedom from efforts to undermine or overturn them." This is simply rediculous. First, Where in the Constitution is the right to safe, affordable healthcare mentioned? Where is reproductive freedom mentioned in our Constitution? To say that abortion is guaranteed by the Constitution is to be living in a fantasy land. None of these things are provided for in our founding documents. Instead, the preamble to our Constitution states that the Constitution was designed in part to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". How does abortion provide for "the Blessings of Liberty" to America's "Posterity", our children? It doesn't. Abortion is distinctly anti-Constitutional because it kills our posterity instead of blessing them with liberty. The preamble to the Declaration of Independence says this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Abortion takes away the inalienable fundamental rights of a baby to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." These rights can only be enjoyed by the living. The Declaration's preamble further states that the reason for government to exist is to secure these rights, i.e. "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" for all citizens. So instead of Obama using the government to promote abortion, he should see it as his Constitutional duty to do the opposite, i.e. secure the rights of our least vulnerable citizens, the unborn.
Obama's speech closes with these words: "In America, every single one of us deserves the rights, freedoms, and opportunities to fulfill our dreams." I agree. But abortion advocates apply a double standard here. In their minds the only citizens in America who truly deserve rights, freedoms, and opportunities to pursue their dreams are pro-abortion women.
First he says Roe v. Wade "affirmed a woman's freedom to make her own choices about her body and her health." This is the "pro-choice" argument. The problem is that it isn't logical. No woman in America has complete freedom of choice when it comes to her own body or her own health. For instance, there are laws against drug abuse. A woman doesn't have the legal right to make her own choice about her body in this instance. The law takes that choice away. She is not allowed to abuse drugs simply because that's what she chooses to do with her body. A second reason that this is illogical is that there are two patients in every abortion procedure- the mother and the baby. The mother cannot choose abortion without affecting the baby. So while the mother has a supposed right to choose for herself, that right cannot be excercised without her making the choice for the baby as well. This argument exhalts a woman's supposed right to unrestricted choice over every other American's ability to choose. She has far more power than the father, more power than the baby, and more power than anyone else who might advocate for the baby. It's not just her body she's excercising control over.
Obama continues: "The decision supports the broader principle that the government should not intrude on private decisions made between a woman and her doctor." This is also illogical. The government does intervene in some doctor/patient decisions. For example, there are certain procedures that a doctor cannot legally perform even if the patient requests them. There are certain drugs a patient may not legally have and a doctor may not legally prescribe. In these instances the government is intruding and taking unfettered freedom of choice away from patients and doctors. These restrictions are in place to prevent potential harm to the patient. Every abortion "procedure" guarantees that one patient in the room, the baby, will suffer irreparable harm. Why wouldn't the government have a responsibility to interfere on behalf of the defenseless child?
The president also said: "As we commemorate this day, we also redouble our commitment to protecting these constitutional rights, including protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her right to reproductive freedom from efforts to undermine or overturn them." This is simply rediculous. First, Where in the Constitution is the right to safe, affordable healthcare mentioned? Where is reproductive freedom mentioned in our Constitution? To say that abortion is guaranteed by the Constitution is to be living in a fantasy land. None of these things are provided for in our founding documents. Instead, the preamble to our Constitution states that the Constitution was designed in part to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity". How does abortion provide for "the Blessings of Liberty" to America's "Posterity", our children? It doesn't. Abortion is distinctly anti-Constitutional because it kills our posterity instead of blessing them with liberty. The preamble to the Declaration of Independence says this: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Abortion takes away the inalienable fundamental rights of a baby to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." These rights can only be enjoyed by the living. The Declaration's preamble further states that the reason for government to exist is to secure these rights, i.e. "life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness" for all citizens. So instead of Obama using the government to promote abortion, he should see it as his Constitutional duty to do the opposite, i.e. secure the rights of our least vulnerable citizens, the unborn.
Obama's speech closes with these words: "In America, every single one of us deserves the rights, freedoms, and opportunities to fulfill our dreams." I agree. But abortion advocates apply a double standard here. In their minds the only citizens in America who truly deserve rights, freedoms, and opportunities to pursue their dreams are pro-abortion women.