Roe v. Wade Is Not Going Away

Being of the male gender, I lack a certain credibility in this area, but even so . . .


It's the 40th anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade decision, and lately the anti-abortion forces -- so ably represented in the last election cycle by spectacular losers like Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock and Rick Santorum -- have been vocal.

There was a march in D.C., and local Catholic students here in central Ohio were let out of classes to attend an anti-abortion mass.  John Boehner marked the date by declaring that ending abortion is "one of our most fundamental goals" and that he wants the procedure to be "a relic of the past."

Oh, boo-hoo!

That would be OK if you could do it by guaranteeing that all future pregnancies will be planned and happy and wished for, and that the resulting offspring will be raised and cared for by loving parents.  It'd be OK if you could somehow ensure that no woman would ever again need to deal with an unintended pregnancy.  If you could do that, Orange John, you'd have everybody with you.

But you can't do it.  In all of history, no one ever has.

Instead, what you and the other self-appointed moralists want to do is legally force certain unhappy women to deliver and raise unwanted children.  It's motherhood as a punishment:  "You should have known better."  It's caring more about zygotes than actual living, breathing human beings.  It's a perverse misunderstanding of the notion of compassion.

No one is "for" abortion, but I can't think of anything sadder than an unwanted child.

Those who want to overturn Roe and effectively ban all abortions say that unwanted babies are sacred blessings whose importance outweighs all other considerations.

Buster suggests that those high-principled people put their money where their mouth is:  They should personally take in all the unwanted children and they should take all responsibility to raise all those blessings to adulthood.

And if you're not willing to do that -- and I mean do it literally -- then just shut the fuck up!

                   This sign is disgusting.  "Lost" fatherhood?  Find somone who wants your sperm, asshole, and quit knocking up women who don't!

(In current polling, the vast majority of Americans -- over 70% -- are in favor of preserving abortion right under Roe v. Wade.  The "in favor" percentage has steadily increased over the past 40 years.)