Judges Not The Answer to Ban Abortion

With one new fresh chief justice on the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States), and talk of filling the other vacancy left by Justice O'Connor's retirement, there's a lot of hum about the possibility of overturning the decades old Roe v. Wade case that in effect "legalized" abortion.

I put " " around legalized, because judges really can't make laws, they just judge by them. Laws are made by congress. Anyone that has gone through an elementary grade school in the United States knows that. It doesn't take a super intelligent human to figure that out. But, for some reason with all this talk about Roe v. Wade and the SCOTUS makeup, everyone and their dog thinks that it will be up to the judges to make abortion illegal.

NO, it is not up to the courts to ban abortion! It is up to our legislators to ban abortion. The courts have only determined their decision with the laws in mind, not their personal beliefs or views, and that is what the courts ought to be about. Interpreting the law, not making it.

Actually, in essence, if abortion should be seen as murder and banned, then our legislators must define who should have rights as citizens and humans in the United States. Then, they need to create the laws to give anything that has not yet been born the same rights as a human that is born, living and breathing, if you believe that they should have those rights.

There is vague language in our laws as to when an individual receives their autonomous rights as a human and a citizen of the United States. As it stands now, it is assumed a human must be born and surviving without connecting to another human (i.e., the mother) to be acknowledged as receiving rights and protection as a full individual human in the United States. Per se, a living, breathing human being.

If you are so pro-life that you believe life begins before someone is born and is a living, breathing human being, then you need to tell your congressional representatives to make up a law that states that all rights and protections allotted by the constitution and laws of the land shall be granted upon all living humans and ... pick your levels of natal development that should be included with autonomous rights: a) zygotes enroute in the uterus, not implanted in womb; b) zygotes in petri dish; c) implanted embryos; d) viable fetuses; e) other ___ (fill in the blank).

http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/onequestion.html

Since many who take abortion as a hot topic are Christians, let me take something from the Bible:

Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

It is that first breath breathed, that Biblically man becomes a living soul. Before that they are just slime of the earth. It is the breath of God that gives us humans our spirit. It is not the act of two people, or even the act of a doctor with genetic components in a petri dish that make a human. No, it is the act of God giving us breath. So, as Christians, really, we ought to be thanking God for each breath we take.

http://www.postfun.com/pfp/blasphemy.html

Not that I agree with all of this website's arguments, but it certainly highlights Christian Bible verses that define the moment earth turns to a human soul. It seems even the Bible, in its full context, is not clear if a person (i.e., zygote, embryo, fetus) is really a human soul, until they breathe.

Things that make you go... hmmmm.