John Ben Regesh, J. D.

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8/16/09  Right to Choose vs. the Right to Life

A person called me the other day asking for support for the right to choose, maybe it was the right to life. It didn't matter which side she was on. I asked if she knew anything about the rights she was telling me all about. I listened politely as she read her talking points list and then asked if she would listen just as politely to me. She asked if I was one "of those" on the other side. I replied no, but asked her forbearance while I spoke. She was a polite young lady and said yes. 

I told her that I was a lawyer and had been a lawyer for more than 35 years and a student of the law for more than 4 decades. She replied, "That's cool, that's longer than I have been alive." I smiled at her through the phone and I think she knew it from the breath she took.

You know, I began, that the first case I ever studied in Criminal Law class in Law School was a case out of New York state that had to do with a father who had sex with his 13 year old daughter and when the child was born, before it could breath, he strangled it using its umbilical cord. At trial he was acquitted of murder because under common law the child was not a viable human being. It had not breathed on its own. Gruesome, yes. True, yes.

I then explained to the young lady that for hundreds of years the law defined human life to begin with viability and the theology was that God breathed a soul into the child when it drew its first breath.

I asked if she knew what the ramifications of that really were. Her, "No?" was honest. I told her that the whole issue is when does human life begin. I said if it begins at birth or viability as the law states then a woman has the right to rid herself of the fetus. It is not by definition human and whatever it is it has no rights. If however, you define life as beginning at conception, there is no choice and any termination of human life by the mother or anyone else is murder and if it is "abortion," as we currently define it, then the act is murder most foul because it is premeditated and acted out in consortium with others who perpetrate these actions as hired assassins.  She paused and thought about it, then quietly said, "Thank You," and hung up.

The question is not whether a woman has a right to choose as Roe v. Wade seemed to hinge on, but whether the fetus is a human being. I noticed the Supreme Court seems to be avoiding the real issue and I really wish someone would address it. When does life begin? If the fetus is not human life, then what pray tell is it?

Does it not have all the DNA coding and complete potential as a human being? Everything is present. Are we then debating when it gets a soul? Yet, God said He knows each of us in the womb. If you say that you cannot tell and do not know, should you not give the fetus the benefit of the doubt?

And what of these ghouls in the Obama administration who advocate "putting to sleep" children up to two or three years old? Well, that is just plain EVIL. It speaks volumes about the monster who would propose it and the administration who would hire him. People like this need to be ostracized, marginalized, and their future impact negated. While we have free speech and speaking up has alerted us to these moral misfits, we should make sure they never have any semblance of power. Their philosophy should be shouted down. Perhaps they should go to a country where there is a culture of death.

© John Ben Regesh 2009