Life, Liberty and the GOP
I recently attended a Republican event. It was called Women and the GOP . Sharon Day, Co-Chair Republican National Committee, was the keynote speaker. She was obviously having an ‘off’ day. I love to listen to speeches. As a speaker, myself, I am always looking for nuances that make a better presentation, a more effective draw and convincing prose. I wasn’t as much disappointed in the presentation as in the actual content. Ms. Day brought up the topic of where she stands on issues. She mentioned education, boarders and something or other. As a woman intimately involved in the prolife movement, I was saddened by the fact that she didn’t even mention the issue of life or the lives of millions of children and hundreds of women killed in abortion clinics, the lives of the men in Benghazi or of a general disrespect for life from the President. She said something about Republican values. In only a few days, I couldn’t tell you more than a few words she spoke. Clearly, not stellar.
Jennifer Horn also spoke. She repeated that the Republican Party is the party of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. She switched it up with Life, Liberty and Property. Ms. Horn’s speech was shorter in length, but I remember more of it, because she did mention the first issue first.
Our founders were very thoughtful men. They did not have the myriad of distractions we face every day. From TV, Internet, making ends meet with work schedules and the demands of modern society, we have lost the ability to simply focus on a task, large or small, and consider all of the ramifications to a logical and potential conclusion.
Our Founders penned that wonderful document, The Declaration of Independence, with the infamous words: …all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights: among these are the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Surely, these men knew what they were writing. Our laws are written with strict grammatical rules. The rights delineated are consecutive, not concurrent. This simply means that my right to the pursuit of happiness should never trump your right to liberty. So, if I am happy to keep you as a prisoner, this is unlawful, according to natural law. And, my right to liberty should not trump your right to life. I cannot kill you, because you are in my way of freedom to do as I please.
Life begins at conception, usually a week before implantation and often six or seven weeks before a woman even knows she is pregnant. A baby’s heart is beating at 18 days and by 10 weeks he or she is fully formed, simply growing. One’s right to liberty should not trump another’s right to life.
Pregnancy is temporary. Women, even those in crisis, will be released from pregnancy at a reasonably specific time. Babies, brutally killed by abortion are dead forever. This clearly transgresses natural law and the laws our country was founded upon.
What kinds of logical discussions are you having about the first issue?