Don Roach

Speaking of morality…this is one issue that I have scoured RI blogs over the last few years to see if any liberal/progressive can come up with a good reason to oppose the 24 hour waiting period bill that is introduced over and over in the RI house. While we focus on teachers’ union contracts, tax cuts for the rich, and all the other cliche topics of the day there are many women and young girls getting pregnant who need options.

I’ll save for another day my disgust with laws that don’t allow parents to make decisions for their children in these matters while at the same time holding them accountable for other actions their children may take, but suffice it to say it bothers me that the 24 hour waiting period bill does not get enough support.

Essentially, and I haven’t seen this year’s bill, the bill requires a waiting period of 24 hours to decide whether or not the woman would still like to go through the abortion. She would be afforded information regarding alternatives available to her and it would allow her to make a very, very reasoned decision.

Seems simple to me, yet I have not seen any liberal type come out in support of it. Planned Parenthood – an oxymoron if there ever was – actually wrote this about the right to know act last year:

Despite its deceptive name, H. 5334, the “Women’s Right to Know Act,” doesn’t tell women anything they’re not already being told.  Instead, it imposes a 24-hour waiting period, intended only to make it more difficult for women seeking an abortion to receive the care they desire.

Yeah, that’s the desired result of the bill to make it more difficult for women seeking the abortion..er…care they desire. Come on! Is that all you got?

To me, an organization with the name, Planned Parenthood, should be all over this bill seeking to help “parents” better “plan” what to do in unplanned situations. Instead, their “hood”-winking us by trying to tell us that a bill asking a woman to wait a day to think about the abortion is somehow going to make it extremely difficult for a woman to get an abortion.

Let me ask you this, how many quick decisions have you made only to think back and wish you had taken a moment to think about it a little longer? I can think of a few……..dozen.

Going back to my earlier posts, liberals try to win the semantic arguments in all morality based issues. Don’t be fooled by the rhetoric. Make the decision yourself. I’m being up front with you that I believe women will make more informed decisions if they wait 24 hours and I hope that some may choose not to have an abortion. But at minimum, at least we would have provided them an opportunity to fully understand all options available to them.

It would seem liberals don’t want that.

You’ll often here that come from the mouths of liberals who believe that “morality” should be outside the bounds of governmental oversight. Out of the other side of their mouths, liberals will then tell you we need a government sponsored health insurance. Why? Because we cannot have millions of people without health insurance. Why not? Because, as the richest country in the worlds it’s “wrong” to have anyone die or suffer because they have inadequate access to health care.

Ok, I think I have. The government should not legislate morality – except if its the morality of the left. Now things are becoming more clear. If the left thinks its right, by golly it must be right. Not only is it “right” it is “a right” something that is inalienable to all people.

Or so goes the thinking.

But I’m getting tired of the liberals shoving their morality down my throat and then saying I have no right, justification, et. al. to put forth my set of morality to be judged by the populous. For example, I’m an ardent pro-life guy. My morality says everyone person who is about to be born has the right to be born. That right outweighs the woman’s right to decide whether that baby fits within her life paradigm. Liberals will tell me in one breath that the government shouldn’t legislate my morality and then say we should legislate homosexual marriage? Huh? Their reply would be that marriage is a “right” for all people.

See where this is going? Liberals like to phrase their morality in language that makes it less a moral precept and more a universal human right. It’s a good tact to take if you’re able to redefine the semantics in the debate. People begin to think, “wow, I think every one is entitled to human rights…maybe any kind of marriage is a right to all humans.” On the flip side, they start talking about discrimination, bigotry, and the like referencing their opponents position. As a nation still hung over from the hundreds of years of minority oppression such tactics still resonate with a populace looking to “not harm” more than “do good”. Some folks who lived during the era before the Civil Rights movement still lament many of the deplorable actions of that time period.

But it’s all fools gold. Liberals want to legislate morality as much as conservatives do. Just visit RI Future and read the following:

• America is addicted to an unsustainable way of life – a nice little diatribe to make people feel bad about themselves because we’re killing the environment.
• Frank Caprio and same-sex marriage – Is “conservative” Catholic Caprio really for the redefinition of marriage? He better be so say liberals
• Bill Lynch and tax cuts for the rich – What? You made the money and you think you have the “right” to keep it!? Heck no, say the liberals.

So next time any liberal tells you that we can’t legislate morality, just remind them that everyday they are trying to do just that and would be more honest in admitting that fact.