#76 Pastor of Muppets: “Abortion is legal. Torture is not legal. I don’t know how to make it any clearer. If you don’t like it, work to change the law. If you can’t change the law, suck it up and come to terms with the fact that not getting everything you want is part of living in a Democracy.”
Democracy assumes we elected our representatives and in open session we saw them debate the issue of abortion and the statute permitting it was duly passed. If voters did not like it then they could duly vote those who enacted it out of office. Legislation under the US Constitution works that way.
Times might then change and we the voters could then elect a Congress to repeal the statute set out in the US Code which legalized abortion.
There is a problem here. Congress never voted to legalize abortion. There is no abortion statute on the books, making abortion legal, to repeal. There was no debate and no open vote. We never got a chance to vote out those idiots who voted for abortion or against abortion depending on our views as voters.
Hey, Pastor, do you know why we can’t change the “Abortion Law” by democracy or repeal the statute that gave it to us? Because it was never legislated. Five white guys, some of them Southerners, behind closed doors were fearful the minority races would propagate too far for their comfort and they figured abortion would keep the ranks of the poor and dependent on the welfare state down to manageable levels. In the early 1970′s they legislated from the Supreme Court Bench behind closed doors, and we do not know what arguments they used among themselves to justify that judicial legislation. They sat for life so they had no fear of being voted out.
To understand how they did it you’d have to know something about Constitutional Interpretation theories. But mark this. Madison wrote precise notes about the debates at the Constitutional Convention in 1789 and abortion, as a proper subject for involvement by the Federal Government to be granted precisely enumerated and limited powers, was never discussed, nor would it have occurred to anyone then that local sexual practices would be of any concern to the centralized Federal government which the States were very nervous about. Roe v. Wade, anyway, was a fake lawsuit dug up and contrived by leftist lawyers, the same as the Scopes Monkey Trial was a scam pre-arranged by the Leftists as well. Ms. “Roe,” so named by pseudonym, now regrets having been talked into it.
Anyway, it’s probably useless to explain this to you, but the real facts of why no abortionist can now be criticized is alot different from what your ignorant comment suggested. Some people think the abortion legislation from the Bench is no more legal than any other judicial legislation, at least in the face of the constitutional separation of powers as originally formulated which gave the legislative power exclusively to Congress. To me it appears no more legal than the President using his office to steal a bond holder’s property and give it to union leaders hell bent on killing the golden goose that gave them their position. (And I say that even though I believe abortion should be legal in several important areas, though perhaps not universally so). The leftists certainly know these arguments concerning the unconstitutionality of Roe v. Wade. They just don’t care.
