Favoring Life, Like Everyone Else

 THE GREAT STATE of Arkansas has been named, questionably, dubiously, the most "pro-life" state in the United States by some anti-abortion rights group .As if there is any state or person who is not "pro life". Pro choice people are strongly opposed to government intervention in a woman's control of her reproductive choices, since pro choice people by and large tend to believe in God, and that pregnant women will be guided by their God, not their government. "Pro life" people believe in big government, government intervention in a woman's personal choices. Arkansas, the historical home of lynchings, lethal injections, and a veritable hunter's paradise, pro life? Thou shalt not kill?  The pro life group further cited the recent upsurge in the number of right wing judges in the federal judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court, as a positive indicator for future legislation limiting women's abortion freedom under Roe v. Wade. Indeed, conservative judges, like conservative people generally, tend to hate abortion rights, and tend to seek to reduce these rights granted by Roe v. Wade, whereas left leaning judges, like left leaning progressive people generally, tend to support abortion rights as guaranteed by the 1973 Supreme Court decision upholding them, based upon the constitutional  the right of privacy, a right which does not actually explicitly appear in the founding document, but is assumed to exist by extension of other enumerated constitutional guarantees. Arguably, Roe v. Wade was rendered under dubious logic, constitutionally, but the ruling still stands, and has for a half century. Everyone is pro life. Bu those opposed to abortion rights seem to believe that government is needed to prevent abortions, whereas progressive abortion right advocates, who themselves are not less pro life and who do not necessarly want people to ever have abortions, prefer to believe that a woman's own judgment, and the guidance of her God, will suffice. Liberal renderings from the Supreme Court, or any other court, are often described by conservatives as "legislating from the bench", or "judicial activism". But in the case of the abortion issue the exact opposite is true.A woman's right to an abortion is guaranteed, the settled law of the land, for nearly fifty years.Therefore, liberal judges who uphold Roe  v. wade and abortion rights are upholding constitutional law, and conservative judges and legislators who try to shrink abortion rights through legislation or court renderings are the judicial activists, legislating from the bench. This is another truth that conservative refuse to accept, that they too are often guilty to seeking to make law in court, rather than interpret it.