Posted on 07/11/2010 2:10:08 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared Thursday that abortions would continue to be available to women regardless of the legal challenges now being waged by opponents of Roe v. Wade.
"Over a generation of young women have grown up, understanding they can control their own reproductive capacity, and in fact their life's destiny," Ginsburg said in rare public remarks. "We will never go back to the way it once was."
Ginsburg said that any changes in access to abortion simply hurts poor women.
"If people realize that, maybe they will have a different attitude," she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
"Over two generations of americans have grown up, understanding they can control their own means of maintaining their plantation capacity, and in fact their life's destiny," Ginsburg said in rare public remarks. "We will never go back to the way it once was."
Ginsburg said that any changes in access to cheap slave labor simply hurts poorer plantation owners.
"If people realize that, maybe they will have a different attitude," she said.
Of course it will hold. The decision in Roe was based on the loathsome doctrine of “substantive due process.” That doctrine was just reaffirmed in the McDonald decision.
I think there is one bridging phrase to the Declaration of Independence that is in the Constitution, which can be seen as a link to "unalienable rights."
PreambleWe the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Note the use of the phrase "Blessings of Liberty." They didn't say "liberty," they said "blessings of liberty." They also capitalized Blessings and Liberty. Why?
In the Declaration of Independence, the Founders said:
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.
Note the use of capitalization for Life, Liberty, and Happiness. Also note that these refer to the rights endowed by the Creator, which would be blessings. By this language, is it possible that Founders meant the Constitution to establish a government that secured the blessing of the unalienable right to Liberty?
Therefore, when they spoke of "securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity," wouldn't those referred to as "our posterity" be the unborn children who were also "blessed" with the right to Liberty, and the other unalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence?
How can the Founders believe that they were securing Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness for our unborn future if they were also writing abortion into the Constitution?
-PJ
Ruth: the law, either on the books or as enacted by the Supreme Court, does not stop us from changing the hearts and minds of Americans that abortion is murder; you can’t stop that.
Well, I'm sure glad to she that the old bazitch keeps an open mind about these types of things. I thought that SCJ's hated to be asked about potential cases and how they might hypothetically rule.
Just another example of how determined the left is to institute its agenda no matter what damage is done to the nation as a result of their treason.
“Ruth: the law, either on the books or as enacted by the Supreme Court, does not stop us from changing the hearts and minds of Americans that abortion is murder; you can’t stop that.”
Good point. The American public is slowly but surely turning against abortion.
That would be a highfalutin euphemism. Where in Nazi-Germany the exterminatable human beings were Jews and other "undesirables", today it is the unborn in the womb. Thanks, Ruthie, for supporting the new holocaust.
Well, those that weren't killed before birth.
These liberal "thinkers" don't get how this kind of a statement contradicts itself and defies the rules of logic. Justice Ginsburg's statement cannot meet its own definition.
Ms. Ginsburg, it’s 2010. Why haven’t you realized yet, that there is another life besides the woman’s, when she gets an abortion?
After some 40 million abortions in the U. S. alone, one would think you could grasp that there is something missing in your equation.
“Over a generation of young women have grown up, understanding they can control their own reproductive capacity, and in fact their life’s destiny,” Ginsburg said in rare public remarks. “We will never go back to the way it once was.” Ginsburg said that any changes in access to abortion simply hurts poor women. “If people realize that, maybe they will have a different attitude,” she said.
Poor woman or not, the dead fetus in each instance of abortion was the entity most innocent, most without defense, most damaged.
Is there no capacity within you, for pity for them?
Evidently not. What a dark haunting soul...
She will probably retire thinking that Roe will be around forever. Evils like abortion rise to the surface for a time throughout history. Life’s good now, and so for the time being, people are distracted by other things, secular things. When there is a little austerity, people tighten up on what is sociatially acceptable. Over and over again in history it keeps happening. Unfortunately, Ms. Ginsburg probably will not be around to see it when it happens, but it will happen. The Supreme Court that passed this was tainted. There will come a time when good men are the majority on the court and this abomination will go down. Sorry Ms. Ginsburg, but the Democrat’s utopian world is not reality. It’s a shame to see a person blessed with such gifts being so delusional. It will go down.
Do you have a source for that? I just Googled "Komen Catholic Church" and got a number of hits to the contrary?
So true. Approximately 20 million women not only didn’t grow up, they were slaughtered on the alter of liberal freedom, the big lie that says women who destroy their innocent children, have finally arrived. Arrived they have. To this destination? Oh how proud we must be.
Sorry, that is worse of an excuse than their excuse for those in their fold that are involved in child rape. Outrageous..@#
It hurts poor little women, all right. It hurts them in a very permanent way.
It is very interesting that, when Congress decided in 1917 to ban fermented plant products for human consumption, they realized that there was no such power granted to them in the Constitution.
In 1970, when they decided to prosecute consumption of plant alkaloids and leaves as a Federal crime, amending the Constitution to permit it didn't even occur to them.
I never thought about that, good point there.
“We will never go back to the way it once was.”
Not even Satan’s whores live forever.
“Komen is among several publicly funded groups”
Those scoundrels get tax money?
http://ww5.komen.org/uploadedFiles/Content/Footer/MediaCenter/planned%20parenthood%20winer-09.pdf
That link is directly to a letter stating that two Catholic ethicists deem it okay to donate to Komen. You’ll love what they have to say about it. It fits right in with all the social pro-amnesty pro-healthcare crap I’ve been hearing in homilies the past few years.
The following like takes you to Komen’s page that has the above letter, as well as other links that to show that Komen’s donation to PP is a-okay.
http://ww5.komen.org/plannedparenthood.html
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