Words'nTone

If I were an alien—from say a remote planet or even remote island on the planet, let alone just a foreigner from a non-US territory—and I happened to stray a shore, passing very unfamiliar structures and signs, and then happening upon a TV somewhere-someplace in America, and being captivated by what I would later come to know as the Senate hearings on Surpreme court nominations …what would I have seen?  What would I have come to know about life in America?  What would I come away with that is important to Americans—well at least important to the questioning Senators?  I would surmise that American society is built on whether a female of the American species could kill their unborn or not.  One of the inquisitors stating, “…women all over America have come to depend on” the right to unrestricted abortion.  No wonder Abortion Rights are the most important reason to vote against a “conservative” Supreme Court nominee and to support a “liberal” one.  Parable aside, I also find it funny, ironic, and constitutionally selective when I hear the same anti-life politicians say that the Second Amendment (right to bear arms) is a static, militia oriented, proscription that can’t be applied to the individuals as a right to own a gun, but yet find a flexible—“the founders couldn’t have known, but made a flexible, fluid, living”—constitutional right to privacy to cover a woman’s right to NOT continuing bearing a child that she has inside of her womb.  When the brave founding father, facing certain death for his stand against England’s tyranny shouted for all American History to hear, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” I don’t think he meant, as Ann Coulter once wrote, that the modern cry for a faithful understanding of the fight for freedom is captured in “Give me liberty or give me the right to have unprotected sex with men I don’t want to have a child with.” I didn’t realize that the American experiment is a course in defining personhood backwards…I thought we made great gains forward in the experiment on this matter…we made gains in determining that we ought not to have slaves and that people of color (from all different races and ethnic lineage) are indeed full persons will inalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Now we have Senator’s wanting a selective “living constitution” which diminishes the personhood of the unborn “fetus” and believes passionately (because that’s where their financial support comes from) that in order to have true liberty one must be free to destroy the life, if one chooses, that is the most innocent and of need of the most protection.  Give me liberty or deny me the right to kill the unborn.  Sad.  Very sad.

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