OPINION:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court is tantamount to slapping women in the face.
Is it really, though?
Pelosi ought to go back in time to her schoolyard days and recall the childish chant, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
A slap in the face is physical.
A written draft opinion is a piece of paper.
This hysteria over Roe v. Wade has to stop.
First off, the court’s draft opinion is just that — a draft. By definition, it’s not done. It’s not the finished product. And second off, even if the draft opinion were released as currently written, the ruling hardly bans abortion. It just puts the matter of abortion back into the hands of state legislatures to decide — where it should have been left in the first place. Where even the left-leaning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — no shrinking violet when it came to women’s rights — even she criticized Roe v. Wade as “unstable” and constitutionally weak.
Democrats cannot stand uncomfortable truths that get in the way of their oft-immoral, almost always unprincipled agendas, though.
“I do think [Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s leaked draft opinion] puts an urgency on what’s happening in the election,” Pelosi said on CBS News, as Breitbart noted. “This is about something so serious and so personal and so disrespectful of women. Here we are on Mother’s Day, a week where the court has slapped women run the face in terms of disrespect for their judgments about the size and timing of their families. So, the fact is, let’s keep our eye on the ball. The ball is in the court of those justices.”
The irony of twisting Mother’s Day into an occasion to keep intact abortion — something that would rob women of their title of mothers — is one thing. But the argument that abortion, and only free and unfettered access to abortion, is what gives women the ability to determine the “size and timing of their families” is really an astonishing remark.
Can’t women choose abstinence?
Can’t women control their own bodies and minds and choose not to have sex?
Remember when “wait ’til marriage” was a real thing?
After all, minus crimes of rape, the decision of whether or not to have sex is largely a personal decision — that is to say, choice. So it is for men, as well. But today’s society, in all its promiscuous and adulterous glory, gasps at such a thought. Still — it’s a thought that’s worthy of considering.
Laughably, Pelosi then said on CBS News: “Let’s just be prayerful about this.” To what god is she praying?
And then came the hysterics: “This is — this is about respect for privacy. What’s next? What’s next? Marriage equality? What’s next, contraception?” she said.
The Democrats would have it believed that if abortion is sent to the states for on-record votes by duly elected politicians, then women will be thrown back into the back alleys for their abortions, and when not pregnant, kept barefoot and cooking in the kitchen for their man.
Such hysteria has no place in politics.
If Roe v. Wade is tossed at the Supreme Court level, it just means states will assume the role they always should have assumed, according to constitutional standards. And it just means politicians will have to take public stands on voting on abortion — they’ll have to be accountable for their views and votes, in other words. In the end, that’s what the Democrats fear: accountability.
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