The Supreme Court of the United States, in a long-awaited move, has recognized that what had been considered a constitutional right to end the life of an unborn human being through abortion is not actually, and has never been, an enumerated right in our Constitution. As such, that potential right is, according to the Constitution, a matter for each individual state and its voters to decide through their democratically elected legislators.
While this is still a far cry from recognizing the right to life guaranteed by the First Amendment for each and every human being – born and unborn – it is a massive move in the right direction. The result of having had a country in which each and every life was not valued, and in which unwanted lives have been considered disposable, has been the development of the most toxic social environment in American history.
Not surprisingly, passions run high on all sides of this issue. Also not surprisingly, there are those who have no compunction about the purveyance of vast amounts of misinformation in efforts to promote a defense of the institution of abortion. After all, those on that side of this issue have shown no hesitation to relentlessly promote the fiction that a living but not yet born human being is not really a human being, but instead is some non-person sort of entity that can be treated as property and disposed of however one sees fit. The inescapable similarities between the institutions of abortion and of slavery are lost on...
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