Written by Esther Poulsen
Guest Blogger (Published with permission)
For anyone "celebrating" the overturning of Roe v. Wade, just remember it wasn't "abortion" that was overturned, it was the right to privacy.
The spirit of the decision is that the State can strip life, liberty, and property without due process of law. And given the toxicity of politics, the world that Roe v. Wade came into is not the one in which it ended.
First, this decision eviscerates the 1st Amendment's freedom of religion. Religion defines when life begins (or ends), effectively placing all citizens under the rule of the Catholic and Evangelical Christian churches. Remember the panic over Sharia law in Michigan? Well, I guess it's all okay as long as it's one's own faith, right?
Got a news flash for you: There is nothing "scientific" or binary about the current definition of life. It is and likely always will be a question of faith and philosophy within the vast spectrum of scientific observation. Putting that in the hands of the state or majority religion is contrary to the spirit of liberty and has severe implications for freedom in the future.
Second, as some states are considering laws that effectively disallow citizens' ability to seek legal services in other states, it grants license for even further destruction of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. The State now claims corporeal ownership of its residents and may eventually conscript other states to police their own citizens. Fugitive Fertile Female Act of 2030, anyone?
People, this goes beyond abortion. Stem cell therapy, end-of-life care, birth control, fertility clinics, marriage equality, interracial marriage, transgender therapy...cannabis, alcohol, cigarettes, leather, 3d printed guns...BOOKS...
It just takes one government and majority to ban access and ban the ability to seek access elsewhere it is legal.
Histrionic? No more than wailing about "death panels" when the ACA was being considered, though what I just described IS brewing in Mississippi. States ARE mulling how to prevent their citizens from accessing services and information legal elsewhere. And nothing will be safe or sacrosanct.
Except for guns...lots and lots of guns.
So again, just because you've been consuming media telling you it's a great victory today, what has been wrought after the last half-century is the roaring back of statism, curtailing of liberty, and the acquiescence to one sect of one faith. Not exactly Constitutional originalism in our current age.
I don't believe this will result in anything but an expanded American surveillance state that interferes with individual freedom to define their own life, liberty, and use of property. And people -- women and children -- will die from it or feed the industrial/incarceration complex with cheap, disenfranchised bodies. Wins all around for the political donors, who I assure you bless this not for faith, but for fortune.
Given that abortion bans seem to go hand in hand with gleeful stripping of safety nets that would help unwanted babies and their mothers, a bleak new world is precisely what the donor class ordered. That bleakness is planned...distressed and beleaguered citizens can't vote, and citizens eager to impose their morals don't pay attention to the theft of their wealth and economic power by the political elite and their handlers. By the way, this includes the former guy who set all of this in motion. His handlers are also pleased.
So... be glad! Our bodies are blessedly restored to their proper place as property and assets of the state and it's majority, just like in the good old days. Raise a glass (while you can) and cheer our benevolent overlords.
Blessed be the fruit, while the fruit is allowed.
The spirit of the decision is that the State can strip life, liberty, and property without due process of law. And given the toxicity of politics, the world that Roe v. Wade came into is not the one in which it ended.
First, this decision eviscerates the 1st Amendment's freedom of religion. Religion defines when life begins (or ends), effectively placing all citizens under the rule of the Catholic and Evangelical Christian churches. Remember the panic over Sharia law in Michigan? Well, I guess it's all okay as long as it's one's own faith, right?
Got a news flash for you: There is nothing "scientific" or binary about the current definition of life. It is and likely always will be a question of faith and philosophy within the vast spectrum of scientific observation. Putting that in the hands of the state or majority religion is contrary to the spirit of liberty and has severe implications for freedom in the future.
Second, as some states are considering laws that effectively disallow citizens' ability to seek legal services in other states, it grants license for even further destruction of the fifth and fourteenth amendments. The State now claims corporeal ownership of its residents and may eventually conscript other states to police their own citizens. Fugitive Fertile Female Act of 2030, anyone?
People, this goes beyond abortion. Stem cell therapy, end-of-life care, birth control, fertility clinics, marriage equality, interracial marriage, transgender therapy...cannabis, alcohol, cigarettes, leather, 3d printed guns...BOOKS...
It just takes one government and majority to ban access and ban the ability to seek access elsewhere it is legal.
Histrionic? No more than wailing about "death panels" when the ACA was being considered, though what I just described IS brewing in Mississippi. States ARE mulling how to prevent their citizens from accessing services and information legal elsewhere. And nothing will be safe or sacrosanct.
Except for guns...lots and lots of guns.
So again, just because you've been consuming media telling you it's a great victory today, what has been wrought after the last half-century is the roaring back of statism, curtailing of liberty, and the acquiescence to one sect of one faith. Not exactly Constitutional originalism in our current age.
I don't believe this will result in anything but an expanded American surveillance state that interferes with individual freedom to define their own life, liberty, and use of property. And people -- women and children -- will die from it or feed the industrial/incarceration complex with cheap, disenfranchised bodies. Wins all around for the political donors, who I assure you bless this not for faith, but for fortune.
Given that abortion bans seem to go hand in hand with gleeful stripping of safety nets that would help unwanted babies and their mothers, a bleak new world is precisely what the donor class ordered. That bleakness is planned...distressed and beleaguered citizens can't vote, and citizens eager to impose their morals don't pay attention to the theft of their wealth and economic power by the political elite and their handlers. By the way, this includes the former guy who set all of this in motion. His handlers are also pleased.
So... be glad! Our bodies are blessedly restored to their proper place as property and assets of the state and it's majority, just like in the good old days. Raise a glass (while you can) and cheer our benevolent overlords.
Blessed be the fruit, while the fruit is allowed.
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Esther Poulsen is a New Jersey businesswoman and family acquaintance. Her comments were first published on her Facebook page.
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