…is another person’s “radical insanity,” or so the story goes.
Sarah Palin would have you believe that her position on abortion — “I am pro-life. With the exception of a doctor’s determination that the mother’s life would end if the pregnancy continued,” is the mainstream position on the topic, and Obama’s position — that he “will make safeguarding women’s rights under Roe v. Wade a priority” is just too radical for America.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin charged into the culture wars Saturday in Pennsylvania, painting Sen. Barack Obama as a radical on abortion rights.
The stop comes amid news that Palin violated Alaska ethics law by trying to get her former brother-in-law fired from the state police, a state investigator’s report for the bipartisan Legislative Council concluded Friday.
Ethics woes aside, Palin focused her attention on abortion — an issue that rallies the conservative base but some say alienates independent and women voters.
“In times like these with wars and financial crisis, I know that it may be easy to forget even as deep and abiding a concern as the right to life, and it seems that our opponent kind of hopes you will forget that,” Palin told a crowd in Johnstown. “He hopes that you won’t notice how radical, absolutely radical his idea is on this, and his record is, until it’s too late.”
It’s amazing. The Sarah Palin position on abortion, one shared by plenty of folks in the GOP, is that new Supreme Court justices with specific views on this issue as a political agenda must be installed, that Roe v. Wade must be overturned by these justices, and that state legislatures must then be given the ability allow an up or down vote on banning all abortion procedures under the cover that Roe v. Wade is in fact the denial of the the American people’s right to vote in legislators at the state level who will work to pass such legislation, or to vote on such legislation directly in referendums.
So you see, being pro-life in this case with the stated goal of having state legislators and millions of other people decide what is best for a woman’s body is actually being pro-choice, because these folks believe that an entire populace has the right to make these choices for you, and Roe v. Wade’s pesky “Constitutional right to privacy” argument is keeping American voters and state legislatures from being able to mandate personal decisions involving your body.
Why stop at abortion? If you remove the tenets of Roe v. Wade’s arguments, that a voting populace’s rights to decide on social mores involving reproduction is more important than the individual’s right to make their own decisions on the topic, then you have to apply that logic to allowing the people to vote on birth control, pre-marital sex, in-vitro fertilization and fertility clinic procedures, and even the legality of sex itself as something that has to be voted on.
You see, if Roe v. Wade’s arguments are thrown out, if there is no Constitutional right to individual privacy, then the voters and the State then have the right to make a person’s life decisions for them, anything less is denial of the voter’s rights to express their beliefs in enforcing the moral codes that they wish to see their society have.
Forget the “slippery slope” argument, this is the “Palin’s cliff” argument. You are a ward of the state, plain and simple, and these people believe that whether or not you can do anything as a private individual should be determined solely by a vote of the people, anything less is to deny the people the right to vote on your effects on society.
Why stop at the legality of sex at all? Why not allow the people to vote directly on or vote in people who wish to legislate anything that could be a social taboo: homosexuality, religion, interracial marriage, the ethnic composition of neighborhoods, what languages you are allowed to speak, who you can associate with, who is a citizen…the list goes on and on.
But that position is not “radical.” No, Senator Obama’s position that an individual has rights in our society is “too radical” for America according to Sarah Palin.
Think about that. This is the kind of decision Sarah Palin would make for you as President. After all, you voted her into the office. She therefore believes she has a mandate to make the decision to allow people to make the decisions for you…people like Sarah Palin. Morality must be voted upon and then legislated, then enforced.
She’s the ultimate pro-choicer, you see.
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