degrees of rights
April 11th, 2006
There’s no denying that a woman has rights, but since when did we grant a right-to-choose over a right-to-life?
With the recent Supreme Court appointments of Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts, it looks like the right-to-life of an unborn child will trump the right-to-convenience of a mother and be protected at the federal level, and rightly so.
We can only hope as a nation that the genocide that 1973’s Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision sanctioned will be undermined.
Yes, a woman has rights. And a woman’s rights are important. No one is denying that. But amidst all the clamor and arguments surrounding the national abortion debate, rarely do you hear about the unborn child’s right-to-life trumping a mother’s right-to-convenience. The issue isn’t whether a woman has a right to choose; the issue is whose rights trump another.
Life always trumps convenience and preference. Abortion-on-demand has to go. We have no authority to protest against the war in Iraq taking innocent lives when we turn a blind eye to the mass genocide happening in our country. Over 43 million abortions have occurred since the practice was legalized.
If we don’t speak out against abortion, we have, in effect, just as much moral responsibility as those in Nazi Germany who refused to speak out against Hitler. Are we willing to bear 43 more million Americans’ blood on our hands?
April 13th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
you can’t make the statement that “no one is denying that a women has rights” and then have an entire essay about how you should deny rights to women. an unborn fetus ( not child ) doesn’t have rights because IT IS UNBORN. my 2 cents…
-djw
April 14th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
The point to my editorial was that while a woman has rights, the rights of the unborn child/fetus for life trumps the rights of the mother in most (if not all) cases. The question isn’t about whether a mother has rights. So often the issue gets focused on the “rights” of a mother trumping the rights of an unborn child/fetus, and my point is that there are different degrees of rights, and certain rights do, in fact, trump others.
I’m not denying that a woman has rights. I’m denying that she has rights (to choose to abort because of lack-of-desire, inconvenience, insufficient means to provide, lack of support, age, etc.) that trump a basic right-to-life. To talk about “rights” and make the pretense of comparing one with another without talking about degrees of rights is to compare apples to oranges.
Also, to address your specific point, when does an unborn fetus gain rights? Upon first breath? Upon being outside the womb? If so, where is the line? If a child is born Cesarean at six months or aborted at six months, what is the difference? One child is wanted and another is not? Isn’t that what it is really all about? I’m not sure I see how the criteria of being “born” automatically grants someone rights who previously doesn’t have rights simply because of place of residence.
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