Again, in the minds of leftists, rights are for them only.
I was scanning my webpages and Legal Insurrection was showing Kamala Harris explaining how freedom and rights work in her way of “thinking.” Like most leftists, her hypocrisy precedes her. From the page (emphasis mine):
REPORTER: What concessions would be on the table? Religious exemptions, for example? Is that something that you would consider?
HARRIS: I don’t think we should be making concessions when we’re talking about a fundamental freedom to make decisions about your own body.
REPORTER: To Republicans like, for example, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, who would back something like this on a democratic agenda if, in fact, Republicans control Congress. Would you offer them an olive branch or is that off the table? Is that not an option for you.
HARRIS: I’m not going to engage in hypotheticals because we can go on with a variety of scenarios. Let’s start with the fundamental fact. A basic freedom has been taken from the women of America, the freedom to make decisions about their own body. And that cannot be negotiable, which is that we need to put back in the protections of Roe v. Wade, and that is it.
OK, the simple question. Where is the word “abortion,” “body,” or “privacy” in the Constitution or any of the amendments? Spoiler alert, they’re not.
But what I find more disingenuous is Ms. Harris’s claim she wants to put back Roe v. Wade by federal legislation. Aside the fact it likely not passes court review (as SCOTUS is currently staffed), she does not want Roe. She wants Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Roe established a three-trimester test. “During the first trimester the state could not intervene in the woman’s decision, only regulate the medical procedure. In the second trimester the state could regulate to protect the health of woman, but not prohibit abortions altogether. In the third trimmest (viability), the state could regulate or prohibit abortions in order to protect the pregnant person’s health or to preserve fetal viability.”
Casey threw out the trimester approach and prohibited state regulation before the fetus was viable (able to live outside the womb, believed at 23 weeks), arguably leading to late term abortions, sometimes called “partial birth abortions.” Yes, the left wants as many abortions as possible preformed in this country.
Now what’s in the Constitution, specifically the 1st Amendment, is protections from government interference for your freedom of speech, the press, and to peacefully assemble. And in the 2nd Amendment, “A well regulated militia” (which is defined as all able-bodied men, not the National Guard), “the right of the people” (Kommie, did you see where it said, “of the people?”) to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
Now we have countless examples of leftists wanting to regulate speech. For example, “hate speech,” i.e., defined as speech that goes against liberal belief, is not “protected” in their way of thinking. Just listen to Mrs. Bill Clinton, “We need national action and sadly…in my view, repealing something called section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted… if they don’t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control…”
Mrs. Clinton, X, formerly Twitter, as well as Facebook, interfered in the 2020 election. They suppressed the facts of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and the fact he was funneling money to his father, the current occupant of the Oval Office, aka “The Big Guy.” They also suspended the accounts of countless conservative and Republican Party members in a coordinated effort to suppress the truth of the Democratic presidential candidate. It says enough that Twitter suspended Donald Trump’s account but left the Iranian mullah’s account active.
Tell me Mrs. Bill Clinton, should someone like you “moderate (i.e. control) and monitor the content of these modern town halls? We know you want to control what people see and think. And that guarantees you should never have that power. The dead old white dude, Lord Acton said it best, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
VP nominee Tim “Knucklehead” Walz also has issues with the 1st Amendment. He has said multiple times “hate speech” and “misinformation” is not protected by the Constitution. The fact he is a governor of a state (and could be a heartbeat from the presidency) should worry anyone. Just because speech is offensives doesn’t make it misinformation (the fact Joe Biden is demented was called hateful for years until he was sacked by the Democratic Party powers). Yes, misinformation is protected. If not, the NY Times, et all would have been out of business years ago.
But back to Ms. Harris and her desire to bring back Roe. She seems to be unconcerned with the freedom of people with conscientious objections to what is arguably the termination of a life. (I’ve often found the hypocrisy of the left wanting as many abortions as possible but are horrified at executing a mass murderer extra-ordinary). It would be interesting to see what a President Harris would do to enforce the “no exceptions” clause of a “Roe” law. If a doctor refuses to perform the procedure, I have no doubt her “Just-Us” department would prosecute. That assumes it passes court review, as this would be “Congress making law prohibiting the free exercise of religion.”
Those words ring a bell.
Michael A. Thiac is a retired Army intelligence officer, with over 23 years experience, including serving in the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Middle East. He is also a retired police patrol sergeant, with over 22 years’ service, and over ten year’s experience in field training of newly assigned officers. He has been published at The American Thinker, PoliceOne.com, and on his personal blog, A Cop’s Watch.
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