In response to the criticism for the use of Tax payer monies to
fight the Supreme Court's decisions on the matter of abortion and privacy in
the bedroom, the article goes on to point out Ohio Republican State Rep. Lynn
Wachtmann, the Republican sponsor of the Ohio "heartbeat" bill
stating, "I think saving, in future years, millions of unborn babies from
death is something you don't put a dollar value on." I wonder how much
money he was of in favor of spending for the saving of innocent, civilian lives
(men, women and children) from our
And what about the real issues facing our nation? What about jobs,
economic reason, balanced budgets and humanistic foreign affair matters in the
It is widely understood and supported that matters of sexuality,
birth control and privacy should be decided upon by the people so why are so
many politicians at the State and Federal level taking it upon themselves to
decide for American voters? If Laws are to affect our privacy; our freedoms, shouldn't
We the People be the deciders of our own fate? Have we come so far down the
fascist highway that we cannot even decide for ourselves which direction our
Nation should be going in?
One would think the Party so vehemently and even radically
striving for the reformation of the "socialist system" they say is
being enacted by President Obama would not trade our Liberty for a Theocracy,
but in the race to polarize the voting base to entice them to support the
re-emergence of the G.O.P. as the dominant Party in Washington, they are
enabling the regression of our society's to the pre-civil rights time when
freedom was unconscionably trampled upon without regard for what it meant to
those citizens in this supposedly free nation.
People supporting these steps may argue that this is an issue of
morality only and is important to set our national course away from what has
been termed "the war on religion", but how far are we really willing
to go to enable this rebirth and what else will be on the horizon toward this
end? Will the next battle involve criminalizing sex itself? And how will this
new theocratic reign affect the God given rights of women in this country? This
author cannot help but remember the tale of Hester Prynne and how theocracy
condemned her to bear the scarlet mark of such an oppressive system.
In their political game to reclaim control of our nation, the real
consequences and irreversible damage to our
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