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You
have the right Get An Abortion
But You don’t have the right to Make the Rest of Us
Pay For it!
Abortion
is a controversial and emotional issue facing this nation
and opposing forces will never agree on a middle ground
as to the merits of legalization. But there is another
issue in the abortion debate that can and must be
resolved by our government. On his first day as
President, George Bush has taken the first step towards
resolving that issue. Bush has signed an executive order
prohibiting federal money from being used to fund over
seas abortions. Most people never knew we the government
was using our tax money to fund and promote abortions in
other countries until Bush put a stop to it. On his first
day as my new president, George Bush set the tone of his
new administration by drawing a line in the sand on the
abortion debate.
He told the American public when he announced this
executive order that he believes in cutting federal
funding for abortions abroad "as well as within the
United States." I say he is right, and his position
should be embraced by pro life and anti life forces.
While this move by Bush may be seen as a victory for the
pro life movement in America, it is really a victory for
both sides of the abortion debate. Remember, it is the
pro-abortion forces who say that the government should
stay out of the abortion debate because it is a privacy
issue. Following that logic, if the government must be
prohibited from telling a woman what she can or cannot do
with her own body, the government shouldn’t have to
spend our tax money to fund it.
In the United States today, a woman has the privacy right
to choose whether or not to have sex, have an abortion,
and therefor should come up with the money on her own to
pay for both should she get pregnant. The pro abortion
forces argue that poor people who cannot afford to have
an abortion will be unable to obtain one. And they are
right. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. After
all, we are a capitalist country. We have constitutional
right to choose our own destiny but we do not have a
constitutional right to force other people to pay for
those choices.
Remember that abortion is elective surgery. You
wouldn’t advocate using federal dollars to pay for a
woman’s breast implants or a nose job. Why has the
federal government used our tax money to pay for a
woman’s private choice to have an abortion?
I don’t mind paying taxes to help a mother
who’s husband dies or abandons her (as long as she
doesn’t continue to pop out more kids while she is
collecting a check.) I have no problem with paying more
taxes for the care and comfort of the elderly or the
mentally retarded. But I have a big problem with using
state or federal tax money to pay for the personal choice
of a woman who chooses to have an abortion.
Is it fair that some women can’t afford to have an
abortions and other women can? Of course it’s not
fair. But life is not fair. It isn’t fair that some
people can afford to eat steak and lobster while others
eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, either. But, it is not and
should not be the function of government to take the
people’s tax money to try and make things fair.
Because it cannot work, and it is un-American. As a
capitalist country we function under one basic principal;
those who have money can spend it as they choose, and
those who do not have money must do without. Any attempt
to change the economic balance between those who have and
those who don’t, equates to government intrusion and
redistribution of wealth. This is the basic tenant of
communism. And it is dangerous.
It’s dangerous because it discourages the population
from working harder to obtain more money and rise up from
poverty on their own. It’s dangerous because it
creates a class of people who are permanently dependent
on government when they should be working toward self
sufficiency. And it is dangerous because it allows
irresponsible behavior to go without consequence.
You see, with rights come responsibilities. If a woman
has the right to choose, she has to take the
responsibility for the outcome of that choice. If she
makes the personal choice to have sex knowing she cannot
afford to raise a child or have an abortion, it is she
who is responsible for the fate of that unborn child, not
the rest of us.
You can’t have it both ways. Whether you are for or
against the legalization of abortion, we shouldn’t
be using tax dollars to fund it. And we certainly
shouldn’t be sending our tax money to other
countries so that they can promote and perform abortions
with the money taken out of your paycheck every week.
Of course, the pro abortion forces want to use your tax
dollars to pay for abortions because they are making
millions on the abortion industry. The National
Organization for Women and the National Abortion
Reproductive Rights Action League make millions from
government funded abortions. But they are inconsistent in
their arguments between advocating the legalization of
abortion and advocating that you must pay for it. Either
the government has the right to be involved in a
woman’s choice or they do not. Following the basic
ideology of the pro-abortion forces, government must stop
all state and federally funded elective surgery
procedures.
When President Bush begins to systematically cut federal
funding for abortions within the United States later this
year, the abortion business will be up in arms. They will
have a willing media to join them in attacking Bush as
being cold and mean spirited because poor women will be
denied the "right" to have an abortion."
When that happens, and it will, remember that a woman has
the constitutional right to get an abortion, but she does
not have the right to do so with your tax money.
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