Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Abortion

I believe women should have the right of women to have abortions. I just do not support it's legal establishment under a right to privacy under Roe vs. Wade. Privacy is about information, not actions. That is a plain and simple concept.

I do support an active judiciary. I believe that the court has the jurisdiction to establish what the law is. Not just what is written but to make sense out of it. If all that matters is a literal interpretation of the law then we don't need people and as soon as artificial intelligent machines can be created then we should appoint them. No what we need a human touch to find common ground when the literal law is lacking and the legislature is deadlocked.

If there is any fundamentally implied right then I say it's a right to your own body. But it would take a panel of humanbeings to vet exactly what that means. Obviously abortion would be one such issue. The decision to end your own life would be another. To not have your body violated against your will another.

Right now we are dealing with the issue of abortions but a hundred years from now we will be dealing the right of women to natural reproduction... that is the right to carry a baby at all. For you see in that day and age artificial wombs will virtually guarantee the viability and health of a unborn children. The issue of that day will be what kind of mother would endanger her health and the heath of her unborn child by choosing natural reproduction...

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