It is Election Day, and I should be sleeping, but I am taking a break from revising a paper to deliver these thoughts.<\/p>\n
Every once and a while, my political philosophical mind gets going, and I just start hammering on an issue. Before I begin expressing my thoughts, let me say this.<\/p>\n
If I were to give my unrestricted and just raw view of abortion, I would see it as an acceptable form of birth control. However, this is before I place any real thought into it.<\/p>\n
For a long time, I said I was Pro-Choice, which I still am. However, after considering inconsistencies amongst my views this has somewhat changed me. For example, I am personally opposed to the idea of a parent picking the gender or eye color of their child. It just doesn’t rub me the right way. Just let nature take its course. However, if I don’t think a mother should be able to determine their child’s eye color; how do I allow for her to decide whether or not the child lives. (On an aside of this issue, if I am going to be a stickler for consistency, should I allow a woman to treat herself to better her child’s health? Ignore this, but I just wanted to note it)<\/p>\n
Therefore, I take the position that if I were a woman, I would not have an abortion, but it is not to my choosing for anyone else. Leaving me Pro-Choice.<\/p>\n
When reading the words of Southerners such as John Calhoun, there are many statements like the following.<\/p>\n
The Federal Government has no right to infringe upon the liberties of the states.<\/p>\n
Now, this was a defense of the states rights to choose whether or not they would allow the institution of slavery (upon my reading, I am learning Calhoun was quite the political mastermind, but another story again). Now, if you were to ask someone: Does the Federal Government have the right to infringe upon the liberties of the states to allow slavery? I am very confident in saying that the answer would be a resounding YES.<\/p>\n
Now let’s phrase Calhoun’s statement again, for something more modern.<\/p>\n
The Federal Government has no right to infringe upon the liberties of the individual.<\/p>\n
(I admit, these are blanket statements, and the Federal Government does have some rights) However, lets phrase it one more time.<\/p>\n
The Federal Government has no right to infringe upon the liberties of a woman regarding her personal health decisions.<\/p>\n
The two units we are examining are States and a Women’s liberty. For states, the issue was slavery. For women, the issue is abortion. Now, I am absolutely not trying to equate the two. However, I am trying to consider the contexts of the Abolition Abortion debates.<\/p>\n
Slavery was an institution that people accepted. In the 19th Century, many people simply took the attitude: “It is an unfortunate institution, we should try to minimize it, but we simply cannot eliminate it.” This is not verbatim abortion lines, but it rings very similar, to me at least.<\/p>\n
If I consider abortion to be a moral wrong, as I do slavery, should I then think my government should outlaw it? I simply hate the idea of the government legislating morality. I hate it with a fiery passion. However, if I were to write things in the defense of abortion and a woman’s right to choose now, would my words be interpreted as those of John Calhoun? Instead of being a racist bigot, I would simply be an advocate of the murder of innocents?<\/p>\n
The battle over slavery and the civil war for many was the Federal Government influencing other institutions’ rights. However, isn’t that simply what the abortion debate is?<\/p>\n
I am not trying to equate slavery to abortion, but I am simply thinking of them in similar contexts and the debates surrounding the issues. Simply because when I am thinking of it, the Pro-Choicers seem to be Confederates.<\/p>\n
I wrote this and only read through it once, and I plan to make revisions on it. Please be patient before you denounce me as a Pro-Life Zealot. I am just proposing something for consideration. My libertarian beliefs still hold truest.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is Election Day, and I should be sleeping, but I am taking a break from revising a paper to deliver these thoughts. Every once and a while, my political philosophical mind gets going, and I just start hammering on an issue. Before I begin expressing my thoughts, let me say this. If I were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}