As I was reading an article about the March for Life in DC today, I noticed a related article on President Obama's comments regarding the anniversary of Roe V. Wade on FoxNews.com. Here it is:
"President Barack Obama is marking the 39th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision by saying that the ruling was more than just about establishing a woman's right to an abortion.
Obama says in a statement that the court's decision also makes clear that the government "should not intrude on private family matters."
The president says he's committed to protecting a woman's right to choose and "this fundamental constitutional right.""
This final line was what completely baffled me and led me to the understanding that our President may have never actually read our Constitution. He couldn't have read it, or else he would know that there is nothing in it that states that a woman's "right" to choose must be protected.
I repeat, there is absolutely zero wording in the Constitution that even implies that women have a "right" to kill their own babies within the womb.
Regardless of this not being within the Constitution while there is indeed a 'right to life' included at the forefront, there is so very much wrong with his statement.
"Right to choose" is interesting language, and I have to say, I agree wholeheartedly that we have this right...but not when it comes to choosing to murder our own children in the womb. I just recently watched the movie 'The Ides of March" and was struck by a line in the movie. When one character is attempting to apologize for making a mistake (one that cost him his job) to his boss, he specifically says that it was a mistake and he is sorry for it. To which his boss replies, "You didn't make a mistake, you made a choice."
Every time a person decides to engage in sexual intercourse with another person, he or she is making a choice. They are aware that this action could result in the outcome of becoming pregnant, regardless of whatever contraception measures are being used, there is still the possibility. Thus, their right to choose rests here...not in the aftermath of becoming pregnant and then needing yet to make another choice to keep or destroy the life inside them. For they already made a choice, and it's result could be pregnancy, which at this point, there clearly ought to not need to be a choice to make. I was under the impression that it was fairly obvious that it is wrong to murder your own child, but I guess this is a little foggy for President Obama (not to mention every other pro-"choice" advocate) to understand.
Or is it rather a willed ignorance, that is, the choice to ignore this initial choice of 'do whatever feels good' in the moment without having to think about the reactions that may result from our actions. I, for one, will choose not only to protect life in the womb to the best of my ability, but also to protect the desires of my own heart through a prayerful married life open to God's will with regard to children. I also will choose to educate my children on the great strength and power that lies in the mastery of self in a chaste life, one that dignifies the very existence that in our culture cannot be taken for granted as many of their peers are being aborted at this very second.
The president says he's committed to protecting a woman's right to choose and "this fundamental constitutional right.""
This final line was what completely baffled me and led me to the understanding that our President may have never actually read our Constitution. He couldn't have read it, or else he would know that there is nothing in it that states that a woman's "right" to choose must be protected.
I repeat, there is absolutely zero wording in the Constitution that even implies that women have a "right" to kill their own babies within the womb.
Regardless of this not being within the Constitution while there is indeed a 'right to life' included at the forefront, there is so very much wrong with his statement.
"Right to choose" is interesting language, and I have to say, I agree wholeheartedly that we have this right...but not when it comes to choosing to murder our own children in the womb. I just recently watched the movie 'The Ides of March" and was struck by a line in the movie. When one character is attempting to apologize for making a mistake (one that cost him his job) to his boss, he specifically says that it was a mistake and he is sorry for it. To which his boss replies, "You didn't make a mistake, you made a choice."
Every time a person decides to engage in sexual intercourse with another person, he or she is making a choice. They are aware that this action could result in the outcome of becoming pregnant, regardless of whatever contraception measures are being used, there is still the possibility. Thus, their right to choose rests here...not in the aftermath of becoming pregnant and then needing yet to make another choice to keep or destroy the life inside them. For they already made a choice, and it's result could be pregnancy, which at this point, there clearly ought to not need to be a choice to make. I was under the impression that it was fairly obvious that it is wrong to murder your own child, but I guess this is a little foggy for President Obama (not to mention every other pro-"choice" advocate) to understand.
Or is it rather a willed ignorance, that is, the choice to ignore this initial choice of 'do whatever feels good' in the moment without having to think about the reactions that may result from our actions. I, for one, will choose not only to protect life in the womb to the best of my ability, but also to protect the desires of my own heart through a prayerful married life open to God's will with regard to children. I also will choose to educate my children on the great strength and power that lies in the mastery of self in a chaste life, one that dignifies the very existence that in our culture cannot be taken for granted as many of their peers are being aborted at this very second.
