2006/02/22

Abortion rights of the State

"Mandatory abortion proposed in Holland" is the next logical step in the abortion rights: if the state can give the "right" for a woman to kill her unborn baby, the state can also usurp such right and force such woman to abort her child.

If the state grants and takes away rights, then the above is par for the course: you live with what you're given while the ground rules change over time. "Rights" are whatever the State saids so and one deals with it. Gun control ensures that the sheeples won't fight back the out of control State with insurrection.

When you read the The Declaration of Independence, it paints a completely different picture (I've added the bold highlighting):
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
That's correct: the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution was put in place to make sure that the above option will always be available to the American citizen. The right to institute new Government, when the present one fails to maintain the unalienable rights. Unfortunately, too many Americans no longer believe in any unalienable rights let alone the Creator of such rights. [Some even believe that 2nd amendment should be repealed! Only those who believe in the almighty State (or employed by or retired from the State) would assume such a thing.]