The right to life is without question the supreme right.
I wonder how many of those here who are following Rick Perry down the “states’ rights trumps unalienable rights,” “pro-choice for states” primrose path, would like to explain how their “logic” holds up while substituting any other God-given, unalienable right for the supreme right.
Such as:
Free speech.
Freedom of the press.
The right to peaceably assemble.
The right of free political association.
Religious liberty.
The right to petition government for redress of grievances.
The Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
A fair trial by a jury of your peers.
Parental rights.
I’ve asked folks who take this position this a zillion times, and they, unsurprisingly, just can’t deal with the question.
As far as I’m concerned an unalienable right is not something that a State or another person(s) can grant me. It comes from God.
They fail to read the Preamble to the Constitution. It does not say that the States establish the Constitution. It says that the People do. The People ratified the Constitution through their state legislatures. But the People are sovereign, not the States. The States are absolutely not sovereign over the right to life or any other inalienable right of the People.
All men—i.e., individual people—are endowed with their inalienable rights by their Creator. The States are the creatures of the People who are the creatures of God.
To use the Tenth Amendment as Perry does is a cheap, cowardly, despicable, intellectually bankrupt dodge.
No one who is as muddleheaded on this issue as Perry is belongs in the White House.
Your support for abortion & Roe v Wade is pretty sick.
I don’t think anyone here is in favor abortion. Just how do you think you can outlaw it, given the current legal and political environment? At the federal level?
Some of us are more concerned with saving every life that we can, and that means limiting or banning abortion wherever possible. However, at this point in time, that battle is being won more frequently at the state level.
You and your strategy of attacking anyone who doesn’t have an “all or nothing” approach hinders the battle against abortion far more than it helps. Fight abortion on every front, but accept as allies those who might also oppose it, but choose to approach it in a different manner, perhaps even incrementally.