What a coincidence that I post a seven-year-old writing of mine about abortion exactly when the U.S. House of Representatives considers (and rejects) a bill penalizing "sex-selective abortion."
The rejection of the bill was correct, but as always it was for the wrong reason. The federal government has no constitutional power to regulate abortion, for good or for ill. That should have been the end of the entire debate. I highly doubt a single Democrat opposed the bill on that basis; quite to the contrary, it is apparent that the Democratic opposition stems from the desire to preserve the federal overreaching epitomized by Roe. As for the Republicans, their advocacy of this bill accomplished nothing more than demonstrate once again that their "limited government" rhetoric is a lie. At least the Democrats are honest totalitarians.
Apart from the legal perspective, it is worth pausing to note the impossibility of supporting the unfettered "right" to an abortion on the one hand, yet also restricting discriminatory abortions on the other. This cognitive dissonance will cause serious trouble for the left as discriminatory abortions continue to proliferate. It can and should send a chill down our spine when people -- who otherwise would be eager to have a child -- decide to terminate him or her because of sex, disability, or sexual preference. But if you have thrown your lot in with those who regard abortion as irreproachable, you'll just have to deal with it.
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