Issue 109
News: Roe v. Wade XXXV.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the famous court decision legalizing (or more accurately declared unconstitutional all laws regulating) abortion. As a student in a Catholic high school, I knew that people in there would have made a big brouhaha about the anniversary. One thing was that in the morning prayers (which I tend to not participate in), there was a call for an end to abortion by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. However, overturning Roe v. Wade would not even come close to ending abortion. First off, despite what some members of the religious right, neither the existence nor even the legality of abortion in America is not even close to contingent upon the upholding of the decision (since it was legal in some states even before it, and there were still over a million illegal incidents per year in the years prior). Even if it did mean that abortion would be made illegal country-wide, it would mean that the state would still have to require that the state be able to provide for the surplus of infants. Since most pro-lifers in congress are against anything that would actually help children from birth until military age, and the large numbers required to illegalize abortion would also be needed to pass any bill for anything which helped them. One other huger thing which would lower the number of abortions would be lessening unwanted pregnancies. These can be stopped by being abstinent. Of course, since choosing to be chaste until marriage is like choosing to not get hit by a car by staying at home, the number can best be lowered by using efficient forms of birth control regularly until they are ready to have children. Of course, this is likely to be opposed by the largest "Pro-life" organization: The Roman Catholic Church. Of course, virtually all major spokesmen for the church throughout history have been virgins, but still insist on making sexual decisions for over a billion people over the globe, lest said people be excommunicated or sent to hell for their deeds, as if a God, with more or less constant war in the Middle East, famine and genocide in Africa, and AIDS everywhere, actually cares about what happens between two consenting adults in a bedroom.
Band Name of the Day: Toes of Oblivion, a band name suggested by my dad when he read that I was written in this section of the last issue.
Film Idea of the Day: A man develops an inoperable brain tumor and ends up retreating into his high school years (specifically 1986-7), ending up with him completely retreating into his high school years after switching back and forth from the present day and 1987.
Film Review of the Day: Citizen Ruth. A poor, idiotic druggie (played by Laura Dern, presaging the rise and fall of Britney Spears 10 years later), who's had all of her previous kids taken from her finds that she is pregnant again after she breaks up with her boyfriend, and she finds herself in a major debate over the right to choose. Does she keep it? Does she get rid of it? Does Neither happen? Watch and see.
Quotes of the Day: "How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen, that we passed chickens in goodness. Name 6 ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? ‘Cause chickens are decent people."
________________George Carlin.
Link of the Day: The Home of a list of the 1000 Greatest Films Ever.
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the famous court decision legalizing (or more accurately declared unconstitutional all laws regulating) abortion. As a student in a Catholic high school, I knew that people in there would have made a big brouhaha about the anniversary. One thing was that in the morning prayers (which I tend to not participate in), there was a call for an end to abortion by the overturning of Roe v. Wade. However, overturning Roe v. Wade would not even come close to ending abortion. First off, despite what some members of the religious right, neither the existence nor even the legality of abortion in America is not even close to contingent upon the upholding of the decision (since it was legal in some states even before it, and there were still over a million illegal incidents per year in the years prior). Even if it did mean that abortion would be made illegal country-wide, it would mean that the state would still have to require that the state be able to provide for the surplus of infants. Since most pro-lifers in congress are against anything that would actually help children from birth until military age, and the large numbers required to illegalize abortion would also be needed to pass any bill for anything which helped them. One other huger thing which would lower the number of abortions would be lessening unwanted pregnancies. These can be stopped by being abstinent. Of course, since choosing to be chaste until marriage is like choosing to not get hit by a car by staying at home, the number can best be lowered by using efficient forms of birth control regularly until they are ready to have children. Of course, this is likely to be opposed by the largest "Pro-life" organization: The Roman Catholic Church. Of course, virtually all major spokesmen for the church throughout history have been virgins, but still insist on making sexual decisions for over a billion people over the globe, lest said people be excommunicated or sent to hell for their deeds, as if a God, with more or less constant war in the Middle East, famine and genocide in Africa, and AIDS everywhere, actually cares about what happens between two consenting adults in a bedroom.
Band Name of the Day: Toes of Oblivion, a band name suggested by my dad when he read that I was written in this section of the last issue.
Film Idea of the Day: A man develops an inoperable brain tumor and ends up retreating into his high school years (specifically 1986-7), ending up with him completely retreating into his high school years after switching back and forth from the present day and 1987.
Film Review of the Day: Citizen Ruth. A poor, idiotic druggie (played by Laura Dern, presaging the rise and fall of Britney Spears 10 years later), who's had all of her previous kids taken from her finds that she is pregnant again after she breaks up with her boyfriend, and she finds herself in a major debate over the right to choose. Does she keep it? Does she get rid of it? Does Neither happen? Watch and see.
Quotes of the Day: "How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen, that we passed chickens in goodness. Name 6 ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? ‘Cause chickens are decent people."
________________George Carlin.
Link of the Day: The Home of a list of the 1000 Greatest Films Ever.
Labels: Abortion, Religious Right
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