The Second Amendment does not protect your individual right to own a gun to protect your family. It addresses the obsolete concept of the militia. For the individual right, look to the Heller decision. Your individual right's protection is as much the product of "judicial tyrants" as a woman's right to choose whether or not to continue a pregnancy.
Bullsh*t. The second Amendment clearly states that "...the Right
of the People to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be infringed." No other Right enumerated in the Bill of Rights retains specifically by the people means anything but a Right of the People. The predicate clause only establishes WHY that Right of the People shall not be infringed. This is discussed at length in the Federalist, indicating the mistrust of a standing Army, and the control of the Army (regulation) is to be kept by the People being armed. That control is necessary to maintaining a Free State. No amount of misreading or semantic warping of the predicate clause takes away the fact that the Right is reserved specifically to the People, as are other Rights of the People in the Bill of Rights.
Regarding your insensitive, sexist position about murdering one's progeny, that's not how it works in reality. A woman who gets an abortion at 17 when she is destitute and without a partner will grow older, and, under better circumstances, marry and bear a child when she is 25. But if she'd had that child at 17, the child she would have otherwise had at 25 will never have existed.
There is nothing to prevent a later pregnancy, unless the abortion is botched and she is rendered sterile by medical mishap.
But the child in the first instance has only one chance to live. As for calling the murder of one's progeny what it is, there is nothing sexist about calling slaughter by dismemberment what it is: murder most foul. In fact,
What could be less sexist than standing up for the lives of those who cannot stand up for themselves, over half of whom (statistically speaking) are female? If standing up for the very lives, against seeing live humans dismembered, shredded alive is insensitive, imagine how being a proponent of the dismemberment of living unanesthetized babies appears.
Such practices used against duly convicted axe murderers would be decried as cruel and unusual and unConstitutional, yet you advocate for them for the most innocent among us, who had no choice about their existence, a choice made by sexually mature people who had a choice to not conceive a new life.
Life transpires for a reason, and an incapable, partnerless mother at 17 will be a loving, capable mom at 25 raising a child with a loving, capable spouse.
You claim this with no sign of sarcasm, when "72.3 percent of non-Hispanic blacks are now born out-of-wedlock; 66.2 percent of American Indians/Alaska Natives; 53.3 percent of Hispanics; 29.1 percent of non-Hispanic whites; and 17.2 percent of Asians/Pacific Islanders"... are born out of wedlock. That's 40.7% overall, and those figures are from 2012. THe situation has not improved.
sourceSo much for the loving spouse bit.
Spare me the balderdash. You fail to note that an aborted child will have no loving parents later--they're dead.
I trust that God is a forgiving God, more so than those here who consign women to the status of sperm receptacles. Abortions are tragic, but only God knows what life will later be created in place of the one that was lost. But I can say that a child raised with loving parents stands a far greater shot in life than one who is resented and unloved from the start.
What makes you think an unrepentant seeker of abortions will ever become more responsible, will ever be a caring parent, when they have already deemed one or more of their offspring disposable to the degree they selfishly would not even give them the chance of life with loving adoptive parents?
I'm not buying what you're selling, not for an instant.
That doesn't mean I don't believe that the Almighty can't forgive anything of the repentant, but repentance means a few things. Someone recognized what they did was WRONG. They are genuinely sorry in their soul for having done it, and they
do not do it again. Like the Adulteress saved from stoning, Jesus said "Go forth,
and sin no more."
But to lead those in crisis astray with the soft-pedaling rhetoric that somehow a Child is a "Choice" and that there is a "Right" to murder them is despicable, indeed.