A number of judiciaries claim otherwise - I won't say they believe it, but they claim it nonetheless. In any event, either such judges are correct, and the Constitution really does grant a host of hidden rights nowhere mentioned by name or they're incorrect and are subverting their positions for their personal goals. Either way, it's an issue that must be addressed; and what's truly infantile is the author's thinking he can just brush the question aside based on his own preferences.
“either…the Constitution really does grant a host of hidden rights nowhere mentioned by name”
That’s not really what we’re dealing with. The source of our rights is our Creator, not the Constitution. Our Constitution is to prevent our government from interfering with our rights, but it does not claim to enumerate all of those rights.
See Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”
The argument over whether a certain right exists in or is granted by the Constitution is just the left’s plausible diversion. We should be arguing the real issues, which arguments they must lose.
These are:
1. Given that we are endowed with our rights by our Creator, *could* such a right exist? (Bear in mind that no right could exist that is contradictory to God’s nature.)
2. If the answer to that is “yes,” then *does* our Creator endow us with this right?
Apply this to abortion. Rather than wasting time on blatantly bogus crap like an imaginary “penumbra,” start with question 1.
God has told us that deliberately slaying the innocent is wrong. (Many abortion proponents apply that principle to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—but not, oddly, to the Rape of Nanking or the slaying of preborn babies.)
Syllogism:
God forbids the deliberate killing of the innocent.
Abortion is the deliberate killing of the innocent.
There is not, therefore, a right to “choose,” nor could there ever be. It is contrary to what God has told us of His nature, and for that reason could not exist. Period, end of story, in saecula saeculorum.
Apply it to Amendment II.
Syllogism:
God has told us that we have the right to defend ourselves against wrongdoers.
We cannot protect ourselves against wrongdoers without guns on our persons and in our homes.
Therefore, we have a God-given right to keep and bear arms.
It is pointless to discuss the issue further. Those who wish to do so are witting or unwitting enemies of the Constitution. If they won’t sit down and shut up, they should be made to sit down and shut up—as was done in America until the left infected us with madness.
(God created man, but Sam Colt made them equal. There’s only one way a woman can protect herself against men, and only one way a man can protect himself against bigger, stronger men.)