Elections are coming up this November 5th, 2024. Abortion has been the centerpiece of the Democrat Party but Republicans don't have the understanding necessary to oppose this issue. The Dobbs decision has supposedly reversed Roe v. Wade and the issue has been sent back to the States. Several States have State Constitution Amendments on their ballots. Is this issue to be decided by the whim of the public? Or is there a foundational issue at play here? The local newspaper allows Letters To The Editor with a maximum length of 400 words. Here are two letters that better describe the basis for the abortion privilege and what else accomplishes it.
News Tribune Newspaper
October 27, 2024 - Opinion
Dear Editor,
The abortion issue is lately an electoral single-issue topic or irrelevant polarizing hot-button; closer inspection reveals it is central to the legal relation people have with government and affects the outcome of every interaction.
In Roe v. Wade, some constitutional basis was found for this practice. Looking through the U.S. Constitution, the word "abortion" cannot be found; but two places concern how people come into existence through procreation. One is the 14th amendment, "All persons born ..." The other is the Preamble, "... to ourselves and our posterity." How do these two compare?
Natural rights were established with the creation of man. Rights, and life, are inherited by posterity at conception; this is by "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God." Life does not begin at conception, life continues at conception. The right to life of the parents is the same right to life of the conceived pre-born child.
When Congress proposed to add to the body politic after the Civil War, they could not create citizens like those of the several States; those were citizens prior to the creation of the States and the United States, successively receiving their citizenship as a matter of continued inheritance. Nor did Congress want any more citizens like that, nor the restrictions they placed on government. Congress did not touch the sovereignty of that political group, but proposed the creation of a contrasting political class, directly subservient to the legislative power, without recourse to judicial process. To do this, their citizens must pass through and come out of a legal no-man's-land.
To make sure this new class of persons had no inheritable rights superior to the legislative power, the legal life of these persons begins at birth. Fourteenth amendment citizenship starts with "All persons born ..." This made a nine-month gap between the legal status of posterity and that of contrived personhood, in law. Justice Blackman: "If this suggestion of personhood (of the fetus under the 14th amendment) is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the amendment." But this amendment establishes the opposite.
Every supporter of abortion must acknowledge they, too, have no inherent rights superior to the legislative power and have no recourse to eternal principles protected by the judicial power of the States and the United States. To be continued.
News Tribune Newspaper
November 3, 2024 - Opinion
Dear Editor,
My previous letter showed the Roe v. Wade case set the abortion privilege on bedrock in that the 14th amendment determines "all persons born" were citizens of Congress recognized in law, the unborn were not and had no legal standing. Justice Blackmun: "If this suggestion of personhood (of the fetus under the 14th amendment) is established, the appellant's case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the amendment." But this amendment establishes the opposite; it makes a legal gap between rights of posterity that would have been inherited at conception and privileges granted to subjects by their legislative creators when they are born.
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization [597 U.S. 215] "overruled" Roe v. Wade. The majority relied on the nebulous oxymoron "ordered liberty" and referred the exact definition of this, and the abortion issue, back to the States. No one brought up the nature of 14th amendment personhood. If only pro-choice people knew how to better argue the point! They could get further on this and countless other issues.
Also not mentioned, the 14th amendment has a Section 5, "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." Notice how quickly Congress passed The Respect for Marriage Act [2023], protecting same-sex marriage, after the Dobbs decision, concerned the supreme Court would reverse its support for such relations. An Act of Congress was needed to fulfill Section 5 of the 14th amendment. Tucker Carlson laughed, "Homosexual marriage is already protected by the supreme Court! Why would they pass this law now?" But Congress knew it must pass legislation on the subject to completely remove it from State jurisdiction and fulfill all of the provisions of the 14th amendment.
The homosexual union issue is not well understood by the public and is generally tolerated if not considered immoral. The abortion issue, however, will be a hard sell to get the public to overwhelmingly approve abortion on the scale desired by Congress including abortion right up to the moment of birth for any reason whatsoever. But it will happen. Pro-Lifers have little understanding of how abortion fits into the Big Picture nor how they are unwitting promoters of it. This includes politicians and judges, Pro-Life organizations, priests, pastors, preachers and protesters, the most devout Christians. The 14th amendment must go!
The Preamble of the unamended Constitution for the United States of America "ordained and established" blessings for "ourselves and our posterity." The parents' right to life would be recognized in their unborn child as an inheritance. The legal basis for abortion can be found in the contrary principle of the 14th amendment in that a person must be born before it is recognized, in law. This nine-month gap between conception and birth disconnects the rights of parents from their as-yet unborn children. If you disregard the 14th amendment's violation of the letter and spirit of the original Constitution and allow it to attach to your legal status, you are unwittingly supporting abortion.