Abortion
PRO-LIFE, BUT FREE-CHOICE SHALL NOT BE DENIED
The abortion issue is a "socially divisive monstrosity", created by Federal government since the end of WWII, beginning with the Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court - to give women the legal right to abortion. Federal government followed suit to promote abortion, through federal tax subsidy of Planned Parenthood organizations and abortion clinics. I am unalterably opposed to 'abortion' and federal funding of abortion.
The question is, how can the destructive acts of abortions be curbed or
contained, without criminalizing abortion - an act that would result in putting doctors, nurses and biological mothers and fathers in jail for the commission of a crime?
Bear in mind, as long as the Roe v Wade decision by the Supreme Court decision stands, the legal right to abortion and Federal government funding of Planned Parenthood organizations and abortion clinics, to pay for abortions, shall always be legally upheld in the courts.
Trying to pack the Supreme Court with Justices to overturn Roe v Wade is not a do-able thing over any short term. Criminalizing abortion is neither wise or expedient.
What we are dealing with here is among the very most private and personal circumstances of a woman and the biological father - much like a divorce - involving the most personal and private circumstances, conditions and causes for consideration of that destructive option that is no one's business but their own.
FREE-CHOICE DECISION TO HAVE AN ABORTION SHALL NOT BE DENIED, NOR SHALL IT BE FUNDED BY GOVERNMENT
I recognize and accept free-choice by the individual woman to have an abortion, but that most personal, private and individual decision must be attached to full personal and individual financial responsibility and accountability to pay for it herself, and/or by the biological father. In other words, no federal funding or tax subsidy that supports the commission of morally destructive acts.
Take a closer look at 'Corrective Action' that places all levels of government, federal, state and local, on fixed budget incomes.
What I advocate is an extremely tough sell - an extremely tight money policy nationwide, such that, after monies are budgeted to provide the
essentials that 'government' is obligated to provide for our common needs and interests, there won't be any money left for 'social engineering' that includes 'abortions'. That can be seen to by overview of the Federal Budget, and a veto of any appropriation that contains subsidy of any social engineering, including abortions.
Indeed, morality cannot be legislated, but, nor should immorality, or its destructive consequences, be funded or paid for by 'government'.
Let me put this another way. I simply do not want to pay, nor should I pay, for my neighbor's bloody nose, caused by my neighbor's own irresponsible or destructive actions or behavior that caused the bloody nose. Nor should anyone else.
Update, 5/4/00:
Was interviwed by 'Lionel', a former prosecuting and defense lawyer, out of Florida, turned into a 'radio talk show' host, out of an ABC affiliate in NYC, on Fri, Apr 7,'00. 'Lionel' challenged the above position: (Paraphrased: "Only the rich will be able to pay/afford abortions."
A 'Bernie Palicki' delayed response:
The 'homosexuals', the 'lesbians' and the 'rich' do not have children. Only the 'wage-earning poor' have children.
The 'wage-earning poor' are 'poor', because the 'banker' keeps him 'poor', through interest rates for borrowed money/credit above 5% per year.
The 'pimp' you vote for, for a seat in the U.S. Congress, to funnel $money into your district, for your pet projects, assists the banker to keep the 'wage-earning' worker poor, by un-controlled spending that forces 'inflation', where 'inflation' is a decrease in the purchase or exchange power of the 'paycheck income', faster than the 'wage-earning' worker, or the company he works for, can earn it.
'Corrective Actions', to (1) fix cost of borrowed money at 5%, (2) enforce 'zero' inflation, and (3) put all levels of government on fixed budget incomes, eliminate the 'man-made' causes of 'poverty'.
With those 'man-made' causes of human poverty eliminated, responsibility and accountability for 'new born life' can and should be properly invoked on the biological parents, not the 'socialist welfare state' that the United States has been 'caused' to become.
Bernard Palicki
Huntsville, AL
June 24, 1999
Comment update: 5/4/00
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