The right was ALWAYS there. It is a natural right of a human being to have self-determination over his or her destiny. The Constitution was established to protect our natural rights from the tyranny of the State.
Sixty years ago the government could forbid the use of contraceptives. Forty years ago the government could force a pregnant woman to reproduce. Yes, science has advanced greatly since the 70s, but so has our respect for the rights and equality before the law of women.
The patriarchy is dead. Get used to it.
A baby in the womb is a being, and he or she is definitely human. He or she is therefore a person. The baby has unalienable rights--the most important of which is the right to life--even if the
baby cannot "self-determine its destiny." And your point about a woman's right to self-determination does not give a woman the right to murder her baby--
because the BABY has the right to life.The baby is not just "part of the woman's body." Such a notion is anatomically repugnant, not to mention morally repugnant. It is an anatomical and philosophical fraud designed to cover up the fact that abortion is one person murdering another person.
Your points about what the government did 60 years ago and 40 years ago have nothing to do with
anything in the argument. We are talking about your supposed "right to murder"--which you have (alas, very stupidly) styled as a lovely thing of "self-determination"; we are not talking about government overreach in the past. You are just muddying the water with the legal manure of bad law-making. And speaking of bad law-making in the past, Roe v Wade was a horrific overreach of law-making by a bunch of reprobates in black robes. If I recall correctly, the crucial claim of "Constitutionality" in the Roe v Wade decision was not about "self-determination" except as such "self-determination" was falsely centered on the right to
privacy--which is a completely nonsensical right when it supposedly concerns a
right to murder. (Your side's supposed "right of privacy" is certainly not some kind of Fourth Amendment thing "woven through the entire fabric of the Constitution." And it goes without saying that your argument that
the Constitution was established to protect our natural rights from the tyranny of the State is just self-righteous window-dressing--since no one has the natural
right to
commit murder.)
As the brilliant Christian intellectual John Silber once pointed out (in a famous debate with Madelyn Murray O'Hair, I believe) you do not have even have an unrestricted right of self-determination. Laws are necessary for protection of our rights. And speaking of self-determination--specifically, the argument that a woman has "the right to do as she wishes with her own body"--Silber went on to say she doesn't even have the unrestricted right to wiggle her own index finger. It's because she has no such "right" when her finger is on the trigger of a loaded gun pointed at a baby's head.
In short, your argument about natural rights is monumentally stupid.
I hate to say that to someone whom I have tried to maintain as a friend here on TBR, but your phony "Constitutional argument" goes way beyond the pale. As a person who would still hope to call you a friend, I have to be faithful enough to you to confront you with the fact that you have neither genuinely legal nor genuinely moral legs to stand on. Unfortunately, you just don't care enough to face your own hypocrisy. You just want women to be able to murder their kids. (Are you pro-Agenda 21, too? Most of the really powerful liberals in the world seem to love Agenda 21. [And a lot of white liberals evidently do want black women to be able to abort their babies. It's Margaret Sanger's attitude secretly updated.])
My bottom-line point is that the spirit of liberalism is the spirit of
murder. It is conspicuously evil. It is so conspicuously evil as to be sick, even downright
DISGUSTING. That is the reason why Roe v Wade should be overturned. It's an evil ruling. We've had more than one of those in the past, of course. But I think Roe v Wade is probably the worst.
By the way, our whole world is monstrously sick in our day. Children are being raped, tortured and murdered by ghouls all over the world. I respectfully urge you to get well away from the liberals. Demeaning unborn babies as non-persons who can be sacrificed without penalty or even remorse is the tip of a horrible iceberg of wickedness in our day. The whole mess of murdering kids for convenience or for power is probably the biggest scandal in the history of mankind. And the revelations about this network are going to break soon.