This Nation is over 200 years old and faced many crises much worse than this one and survived. It is up to everyone on this board to become involved in their States to change the laws and defeat judges like Judge Greer. We need to make sure that something like this cannot continue to happen in this Nation. According to Judge Bork it happens all the time.
Very well said -
I also saw Judge Bork on TV earlier today - He made a lot of sense -
Thanks -- I thought Judge Bork made perfect sense. Cannot believe some of what I am reading on here. Calling this one of the worst crises of our Nation when we had the Civil War, the race riots of the 60's, anti-war demonstrations of the 60's, etc. There seems to be a lack of knowledge of the history of this Nation in a lot of the posts.
Okay, DevSix, first off, thank you for copying PKM's words. I lose track of all these threads. ;)
"either we are a Nation of Laws and we work to change bad laws and defeat Judges like Greer, or we become a Nation where the President or Governor can break the law when we think it is okay and favors our side but is bad if they break the law the other way."
I know you and I have agreed on this yesterday, PKM, but I just want to say it again publicly.
I am sad for Terri. I do support Life. But we cannot descend into a dictatorship, as much as we all want to help Terri.
You know, here is an aside. Someone close to me (I won't say it b/c it is a public board) had an abortion. This was, oh gosh, almost 14 years ago. 12 to be exact. Wait, 11. It was '94 (OMG, does time fly).
Or maybe it was '93. Or '92. Whatever. It was when she and I were both young twenty-somethings. :) Although in the '90s I was a 30 something.
Okay everyone please forgive my math. I'm working from memory here. ;)
So this person, I knew, had always wanted a baby.
So she called me up one day and said (happily') "I'm pregnant!"
We rejoiced together but she and her boyfriend weren't married.
He is a very science-oriented person and wanted to "dispose" of the inconvenience.
Suffice it to say that he began to work on her.
I called places, I prayed, I tried to talk to her, but in the end, I could do nothing.
The sad thing is that shortly after that, they got married.
Then they tried to have a baby. And she had trouble conceiving and had a miscarriage, which she felt was retribution, and to this day feels sad about her lost baby.
I don't know why I'm sharing this story except to say that, sometimes, we do what we can. We pray, we call, we work within the law but even despite that sometimes the worst happens.