Posted by
Roxanna M. on Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:58:27 PM
The South Dakota senate has passed a bill that would require women to wait 72 hours and undergo counseling before having an abortion. The Republican governor has not yet signed the bill, but because he's a Republican, the expectation is that he will.
Of course, women's groups and probably the ACLU are not going to take this lying down. After all, we're talking about the most sacrosanct of all constitutional rights, the holy of holies, "a woman's 'right' to choose."
Despite the fact that the word abortion appears nowhere in the Constitution and there is absolutely no contemporaneous documents indicating that our Founding Fathers were even thinking about it when they wrote the document.
For some reason, abortion has become the one 'right' that is not allowed to have any restrictions on it whatsoever. There are restrictions on the First and Second Amendments. Under Obama, the Fourth and Tenth Amendments have been pretty well gutted. And, if the Supreme Court upholds Obamacare and agrees that The State has the right to control our economic decisions, the Thirteenth Amendment will cease to have any meaning.
Yet, there are those who wail like banshees at even the suggestion of putting any kind of restriction on abortion.
Oddly enough, some of the people who demand a waiting period and all kinds of other restrictions on the right to bear arms - including the abolition of guns altogether - are the very same people who demand free and unfettered access to abortion, even though it is far more deadly than guns and has killed millions and millions of more people.
Actual numbers are hard to come by, but it is estimated that there have been 52 million legal abortions since Roe vs. Wade in 1973. That's roughly 1.4 million a year, 3,835 a day, 159 an hour, 2.65 a minute.
Gun deaths, on the other hand, account for about 30,000 deaths a year. This means that, on average, there are about as many abortions in one year as there have been gun deaths since 1960.
A billboard recently went up in NYC claiming that the most dangerous place in America for an African-American is in the womb. And that's true. Abortion is the Number 1 killer of blacks in America. Though only 12% of the population, they account for 35% of abortions. Again, the numbers are hard to come by, but it is estimated that abortion has killed one-third of the black population in America since 1973. Kind of makes you wonder why the left is so in favor of it.
Perhaps the weakest argument put forth by proponents of gun control is that innocent bystanders are often the innocent victims of gun violence. Yes, that's true.
It is also true that every single victim of abortion is an innocent bystander.