Limiting Personal Freedom, the Conservative Way

THE GREAT REPROBATE STATE of Arkansas has outlawed abortion ro force the newly ultra right wing US. Supreme Court to decide whether to uphold Roe v. Wade.  The impulse is noble, if mishandled. What makes Arkansas a "reprobate state" is the fact that it twice voted in a landslide for Donald Trump, and would happily do so again today. Everybody is pro life. Nobody is pro abortion. most people are pro abortion rights, they understand that a woman should have sovereignty over her own body. Pro choice people believe in a woman's personal sovereignty and freedom to choose, and they believe in limited government. conservative pro life folks think the government should control a woman's reproductive rights, which is hardly a "limited government" perspective. The protection of unborn children is a noble enterprise, among the most noble conceivable. What is abortion, other than murder? to truly believe in God should entail, it would seems, a belief that God is as likely to guide a woman's choices directly as to do so through legislation. god obviously believes that abortions, like war and human suffering, should occur, else is powerless to prevent it. Arkansas as among the several states which has elected an extreme right wing legislature, a legislature which believes in no reasonable limits on gun ownership or use, that requiring a mask in public is government over reach, that the wealthy deserve tax cuts while the poor do not, and that social programs for the poor encourage laziness. Any state government which makes it a crime for a woman to abort a fetus which was conceived through rape or incest is, arguably, overstepping the bounds of morality. No government, arguably, has the moral right nor should have the legal right to control a woman's reproductive choices. Here's a prediction; no matter how many far right supreme court justices America's far right forces onto the high court against the will of the American people, Roe v. Wade will never be overturned. For the republican party to use unethical, dubious methods to create a pure conservative court is contrary to the principles and aspirations of American justice. Being conservative is in itself not a qualification for membership on the high court, or any court. The only qualification is a demonstrated capacity to render equal justice under law. Roe v. Wade is well founded settled law and will withstand any future court test, because conservative justices have shown a tendency to ignore their personal political beliefs in rendering justice, which greatly frustrates America's right wing, which would prefer a biased judiciary.Fortunately for the republic, extreme right wing legislators and activists, such as those currently governing Arkansas, are often thwarted in their most devious plans.