Disgusted with Gary Jacobsen’s column
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Paul Ross
Published: May 28, 2008
As a military officer and Iraq veteran sworn to defend the Constitution, I was disgusted with Mr. Gary Jacobsen’s convoluted defense of the “constitutional right” to kill unborn children, in the May 27 column, “Questions and answers about abortion rights.”
It added nothing but hubris to Roe v. Wade’s already twisted constitutional logic (creating rights to “privacy” and abortion under the Constitution where none exists).
Moreover, the column completely sidestepped the issue of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to overturn the Virginia ban on partial-birth infanticide — materially indistinguishable from the federal
Partial Birth Abortion Act, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
How ironic that Roe v. Wade used the 14th Amendment to decide that unborn children are not “persons” — the same amendment which overturned the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision that declared slaves and freed slaves were not “citizens.”
And how bizarre that two liberal activist judges are able to thwart the will of the democratically elected legislature and governor of Virginia to ban a gruesome, medically unnecessary procedure wherein the
baby is mostly delivered, only to have its skull punctured and brains sucked out, in order to deliver a dead baby. Some constitutional right.
PAUL ROSS
Montclair
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on May 29, 2008 at 9:23 am
In other news; in Stockton, California, a young woman two months pregnant died last week as apparent result of her employer violating labor laws. The 17 year old woman was hired underage to work in a vineyard; she was denied the one quart of water per shift required by Cal-OSHA and was denied the required five minute breaks as necessary to cool down. She collapsed after working eight hour days for $8 per hour in 95 degree plus heat. After a long delay, she was taken to a local hospital where she stayed in a coma for two days before dying.
In the hospital, medical people discovered she was two months pregnant. It’s possible she did not yet know she was pregnant when she collapsed.
She was an undocumented worker from Mexico, otherwise referred to as an “Illegal Immigrant.“
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/973298.html
By violating labor laws, her employer also caused the death of an innocent fetus. Inquiring minds want to know: Is violation of labor laws that can result in a person’s death, even if it’s an “Illegal Immigrant” as important an issue to Conservatives as “regular American women” choosing to have an abortion?
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Posted by ( edwinking ) on May 29, 2008 at 8:39 am
La-dee-da !!! What a hero !! So your oath was to support and defend the Constitution aas you define it…Mine and Gary’s were to support and defend the Costitution, both knowing that the Supreme Court would, and rightly so, define it. I’m not at all happy with having you define my rights. I bet you and Rush are buddies.
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on May 29, 2008 at 6:33 am
As a 22 year veteran who also swore to defend the Constitution, and still take that oath seriously, this letter offends me.
A woman’s ability to control her own body is her right, her choice, and should not be subjected to the whim of other people’s approval or disapproval.
A woman’s right to conrol her own body is also the law, even though Conservatives have spent the years since Roe vs Wade trying to find ways to abuse and violate the law. I guess once again, in Neo-Con speak, we have a case where:
“The law is the law, except when I don’t agree with it.“
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 29, 2008 at 5:20 am
I might remind Mr. Ross that Roe v Wade is the Rule of Law and as a military officer sworn to defend the Constitution he should defend our Laws as well. Much like the battle over illegal immigration or the speed limit on I95, we can’t pick and choose which laws we like and which we don’t. As an Iraq veteran, I hope he was not among those torturing Iraqi POWs.
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