Whatever
you think about the pro-choice camp, they don't want for cleverness.
The idea that abortion is a woman's right is very powerful. We are a
nation of rights. They are prominent in our founding documents. Our
hearts beat a little more quickly when we think about liberty. The mere
suggestion of abortion as a right conjures an image of battle-weary
women marching behind a flag, fife, and drum.
Embrace
the fiction for a moment and suppose abortion is a woman’s right.
Instead of mere cleverness and an appalling Supreme Court decision,
suppose it was actually listed in the Bill of Rights along with the
other freedoms that we hold dear: speech, religion, assembly, press,
etc. We would be basically where we are, except we would be spared the
“safe, legal and rare” mantra spewed by pro-choice politicians when
giving full-throated support to abortion and a deceptive nod to life.
Of
course, a corollary to this right would have to be the right to
actually have the baby. They are two sides of the same coin. Intrinsic
in these rights is the notion that the unborn baby has no rights
whatsoever. It can’t, or they might interfere with the mother’s right
to abort. Also, the unborn babies must have no inherent value. They
can’t, or the father might have grounds for an objection which might
interfere with the mother’s right to abort.
Not
all countries are as free as us, though. So, maybe some of the more
outspoken abortion activists should visit a clinic in China. There they
can comfort one of the mothers undergoing a forced abortion. As she
wails hysterically for the child she’ll never know, they can pat her
hand and explain that it’s no big deal. It’s not infanticide or an
atrocity of some kind. The baby had no value. Her government is just a
little more restrictive, and this is simply one of the rights she
doesn’t enjoy.
~ Rob
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