Christian Democrats in the United States
Domestic Issues - Abortion Make abortion undesirable by providing healthcare, family planning services, well-managed adoption programs, education and child care, a living wage, and justice. Offer your hand, and people will choose life. As for moral edge-cases like the doctor saving the mother's life, we support the right of human beings to make difficult decisions in service of life to the best of their abilities when those decisions are presented by the face of death. Outside of these cases, regardless of our individual views on personal rights, we maintain that abortion is never a good choice in the wealthiest country in the world. We believe it is possible to construct a society in which abortion is not absolutely prohibited by law, but no one wants one. We seek to resolve real-world problems to decrease demand for abortion, and not to divide people with our religious views. Subscribe to Posts [Atom]
Monday, May 7, 2007
6:38 PM
Abortion rights activists sometimes use the slogan "keep your laws off my body." The question is, whose body is it?
We don't allow infanticide. Roe v. Wade itself establishes that the right of privacy must be balanced against the rights of the individual such that it concludes full-term mothers are not solely their own bodies -- they have the body of a distinct individual inside them who deserves equal protection under law.
Whose body is it? Where do you draw the line? The decision in Roe v. Wade establishes principles that have to be balanced — then it throws those principles out the window and draws an arbitrary six-month line across all cases simply because it becomes difficult to figure out.
As a society of laws based on reason, American courts are obligated to answer those questions with the best reasoning available. Roe v. Wade is not reason, it's politics, and those politics do not belong in the court.
"keep your laws off my body"
Here's another point where "right" and "left" are divided from one another and refuse to consider each others' points of view.Abortion rights activists sometimes use the slogan "keep your laws off my body." The question is, whose body is it?
We don't allow infanticide. Roe v. Wade itself establishes that the right of privacy must be balanced against the rights of the individual such that it concludes full-term mothers are not solely their own bodies -- they have the body of a distinct individual inside them who deserves equal protection under law.
Whose body is it? Where do you draw the line? The decision in Roe v. Wade establishes principles that have to be balanced — then it throws those principles out the window and draws an arbitrary six-month line across all cases simply because it becomes difficult to figure out.
As a society of laws based on reason, American courts are obligated to answer those questions with the best reasoning available. Roe v. Wade is not reason, it's politics, and those politics do not belong in the court.
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