Abortion On Demand,

For Any Reason

To the Editor:

“A transaction resulting in an operation such as [abortion] is not ‘private’ in the ordinary usage of that word. Nor is the ‘privacy’ that the Court finds here even a distant relative of the freedom from searches and seizures protected by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which the Court has referred to as embodying a right to privacy.

“The fact that a majority of the States reflecting, after all, the majority sentiment in those States, have had restrictions on abortions for at least a century is a strong indication, it seems to me, that the asserted right to an abortion is not ‘so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental,’.. .Even today, when society’s views on abortion are changing, the very existence of the debate is evidence that the ‘right’ to an abortion is not so universally accepted as the appellant would have us believe.

“To reach its result, the Court necessarily has had to find within the scope of the Fourteenth Amendment a right that was apparently completely unknown to the drafters of the Amendment.”

So wrote Justice William Rehnquist in his dissent to the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade issued in 1973, which fabricated a nonexistent right to privacy in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. 48,000,000 innocent, human lives have been ended legally in the United States as a result of this ruling. Abortion statistics are published by the CDC and by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Averaging them indicates US abortions peaked in 1991 at 1.52 million, an average of 126,000 per month, 4,200 per day, 3 per minute. More than 10,400 of these abortions occurred after completion of the fifth month. Abortions occur at a rate around 1 million annually today, 2 per minute.

The Central Illinois Right to Life publishes data indicating 95 percent of abortions are performed as birth control, 1 percent due to rape/incest, 1 percent because of fetal abnormalities, 3 percent due to maternal health problems. Guttmacher’s published data indicates about 92 percent are performed as birth control.

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) presently before Congress, co-sponsored in its 2007 Senate version by President-elect Barack Obama, will abolish all restrictions and limitations on the right of women in the United States to have an abortion, or phrased to reflect the 92-95 percent probability, to exercise their right to homicidal birth control. According to Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-choice America, it will “codify Roe v. Wade” and will overturn the “Bush-backed Federal Abortion Ban” referring to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and “other federal restrictions”.

Responding to a question regarding how he would preserve access to abortion in a speech given to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Obama declared, “The first thing I’d do, as president, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That’s the first thing that I’d do.”

Abortion, for any reason whatsoever, on demand...welcome to the Obama Presidency.

Brendan Duffy

4 Chestnut Knoll Drive, Sandy Hook                     November 8, 2008