Irony

“our bodies, our lives” — everything else is the state’s, to do with it what it wants

The one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision giving voters the right to decide abortion issues is coming up, and the Left is hysterical, naturally. Just yesterday, for instance, CT’s Attorney General announced the taxpayers’ hiring of two additional attorneys whose sole duties will be joining with other states who are suing still other states who are restricting live birth abortions and other horrors.

But why this fixation on the personal right to abort, and only that right? I understand that to a large portion of the adult population, the freedom to fornicate without condoms or consequences is important; that’s not my personal hangup, but I get it, sort of, kind of.

What dismays me is that these same people have willingly and enthusiastically surrendered all their other freedoms to an all-powerful state: free speech for instance, and the freedom to be secure in our persons and our homes, the freedom to live under the rule of law, rather than under a king’s whims and dictates, the right to own property, the right to raise one’s children (assuming some escape being aborted) as parents, not the state, deem best, and so on and so on. Even the demand that the state recognize women’s right to “our bodies, ourselves” is limited to just a right to kill a fetus — mandatory vaccinations with untested drugs? Hey, follow the science!

The rights that our forefathers fought a revolution to obtain are no longer valued by the left (if they ever were) and are being handed over without protest or even reluctance. The ladies want to scrape their uteruses? Hey, let ’em — a surplus of children born of self-centered, indulgent women has never been a problem in this country — I just wish they’d pull their heads out of their nether regions, and think about what else they might want to protect or at least, stop cheering on the deprivation of those freedoms from others.