Abortion Battlefield
There is no doubt that many people in America, including me, consider abortion an indelible, suicidal blood stain on the character of the nation, and I, for my part, like many others, am in favor of aggressively addressing the issue on the state level, where the Constitution says it belongs. If it can be abolished there, or, rather, appropriately limited (I personally don't advocate for no abortion under any circumstances), then I am all for that and would look to support politicians who agree with me.
But a liberal friend in another forum - I’ll call him Bass - asserts that the Republican Party - and constitutional conservatives like me - have declared an intention to make abortion illegal nationwide and thus have alienated the younger generation of voters. This is nonsense, a figment of Bass’s imagination, typical of those who consistently misrepresent and criticize folks who possess and promote conservative values in American politics. In asserting this, Bass is clearly smoking something.
Bass Smoking Something
Such a position - proposing a nationwide federal ban on abortion - would be the flipside of the Roe v. Wade coin and just as alien to the Constitution - a document Bass is embarrassingly unfamiliar with. The only way to accomplish such a nationwide abortion ban would be via federal legislation, and, again, as SCOTUS has ruled, the Constitution provides no basis for such legislation.
Notwithstanding liberal/Democrat frantic propaganda to the contrary, the Supreme Court, in overturning Roe v. Wade, did not ban abortion. They correctly ruled the issue is one that is the province of the individual states, not the federal government - that there is no "right to abortion" in the federal Constitution. Instead, under the Constitution, the individual states are where the abortion battle is rightly to be fought, and the people of the states have every right - and indeed the duty before God - to fight it.
I invite Bass to cite any example he can find of a Republican politician on the national stage proposing, extra-constitutionally, to make abortion illegal nationwide and laying out the legal means whereby this would be possible and enforceable in every state.
What, Bass? Nothing? My! What a surprise.
Continuing his long-standing antipathy to Judeo/Christian conservative values having expression in the political sphere, failing or refusing to understand that it is those very values, embraced or rejected, that will determine the nation's future, ignorant of both the letter and spirit of the Constitution, Bass has no grasp of the true dynamics of the abortion issue in American politics.
At its root, abortion is fundamentally, inescapably an issue between right and wrong, good and evil, and if the American people ever shrink from that battle the nation is finished. America is - or has been - great because America is good. If the people, in their majority, ever cease to be good - if they turn like dogs to their vomit - that will be all she wrote for America.
Are we there yet?
Right vs. wrong, truth vs. lies, reality vs. fantasy, law vs. lawlessness, justice vs. injustice, liberty vs. tyranny, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil, God vs. the Godless...
Take your pick. You will, one way or another.
If you can be fooled, you will be.
These are the times that try men's souls...
Torq