Pro-Life, Pro-Liberty

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Abortion has returned to the headlines thanks to Texas’ “heartbeat law.” As the name suggests, this law outlaws abortions performed after doctors can detect a fetal heartbeat. This is one of several recently passed state laws restricting abortion.

The US Supreme Court will soon consider a challenge to a Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. A court majority may use this case as a vehicle to limit or even overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision in which the court declared a federal abortion right.

All who support limited, constitutional government should support overturning Roe. The Constitution does not give any branch of the federal government authority to decide what does, and does not, constitute murder. Therefore, federal courts — including the Supreme Court — have no jurisdiction to decide what the penalty should be for performing an abortion.

Overturning Roe would not create a nationwide abortion ban. Instead, it would return to the individual states responsibility for deciding what, if any, restrictions to place on abortion.

If supporters of abortion “followed the science,” they would have to admit that abortion is the taking of human life. A fetus with a heartbeat is developing, but is also still a human with a right to life.

The Biden Justice Department is supporting efforts to overturn the Texas heartbeat law in federal court. President Biden is also supporting the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of federal funds for abortions. If Biden and Congress are going to use tax dollars to support abortions, then they should allow anti-abortion taxpayers to withhold the percentage of their taxes that would be used to support abortion. The same should go for those with moral objections to America’s militaristic foreign policy that forces US taxpayers to subsidize the killing of innocent men, women, and even children.

The Hyde Amendment does not completely protect pro-life taxpayers from subsidizing abortions. The amendment does not forbid organizations that promote or perform abortions from receiving federal money; it just forbids them from using for abortions the funds received from the federal government. Since money is fungible, a federal dollar going to a group that performs abortions to spend on their non-abortion-related activities frees up another dollar that can be used for abortions.

To ensure pro-life Americans are not forced to subsidize abortions — either directly or indirectly, it could be forbidden for organizations that promote or perform abortions to receive any federal funds. Denying federal funds to international organizations that promote or perform abortions might help reduce resentment of the US in other countries.

It is no coincidence that Roe v. Wade came at a time when respect for natural rights of life, liberty, and property was on the decline. Roe contributed to the decline in respect for rights and the rise in public and private immorality. These changes have led to violent crimes, people believing they have a moral claim — that must be enforced by the government — to the property of their neighbors, and acceptance of torture and “preemptive” war. The way to reverse these developments is to restore respect for the inalienable right to life, liberty, and property of all human beings, both born and unborn. The cause of life is inseparable from the cause of liberty.

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11 Comments
KaD
KaD
October 18, 2021 10:55 am

One of the big problems with abortion is it was never meant to be used as a form of contraception. When women brag about having one, I think it’s clearly gone too far.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  KaD
October 18, 2021 5:20 pm

It goes too far to murder a child for a parent’s convenience.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  KaD
October 18, 2021 5:22 pm

Contra – ception is something that prevents con-ception (i.e. pregnancy). Abortion cannot, by definition, be a contraceptive.

Yahsure
Yahsure
October 18, 2021 11:20 am

I always considered myself pro-life but the idea of fewer dumb people is appealing. Maybe offering to end the lives of abortion supporters should be considered. For the good of the planet of course.
Maybe the experimental jab will do this for us.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Yahsure
October 18, 2021 2:28 pm

Two-fer???

Vigilant
Vigilant
October 18, 2021 3:32 pm

I’m in favor of ending the legal murder of babies. I also believe that overturning Roe vs. Wade would accomplish two things for the powers that should not be: throwing a “Stockholm” bone to conservatives (See, they are doing good things too!), and causing further division of an already frustrated populace. Gotta stoke those flames if you are hoping for a civil war.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Vigilant
October 18, 2021 8:23 pm

They’re not hoping for civil war, they’re just hoping everyone on Team R and Team D fight each other.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Anonymous
October 18, 2021 11:11 pm

Put the D’s & R’s in a bucket. Shake vigorusly. Dump. Try to separate them. All the same. Solution. Put bucket in very large body of water. Sink bucket. Get new group of politicians. Rinse and repeat as necessary until you are satisfied with the results. Probably will take quite a while but Billy G will get some of his population reduction.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Balbinus
October 19, 2021 12:23 am

They are very much the same, individually. What’s important is the Brand Name, D and R, Lib and Con. Fight over Brand Name, goyim.

Only solution is irradiate water, skim off scum, dispose. Take dump in bucket. Throw bucket out. Burn everything in the vicinity of bucket. Nuke bucket from orbit. Send everyone who likes bucket to happy fun camp.

Anonymous
Anonymous
October 18, 2021 8:26 pm

The only problem I have with the anti-abortion folks is they actually think that every hominoid with a heartbeat deserves to live.

Vigilant
Vigilant
  Anonymous
October 18, 2021 8:47 pm

The pro-life fundamentalists are also in favor of capital punishment. I don’t know if there’s much of that crowd left or not, but capital punishment is in the Bible, so many pro-lifers are, or at least were, also pro-justice.