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GUEST COLUMN
(3/14/2006)
Following
Abortion Rights Logic
By Anton Kaiser
For the next several years the citizens of South Dakota will find themselves quite literally in the eye of the storm concerning issues surrounding abortion. We all need to be experts. Bob Ellis has very articulately posted his defense of South Dakota's abortion law and I heartily recommend studying and taking to heart his logic. But the pro-choice movement uses as many tangles of logic as are deceptions inside a labyrinth. Accordingly, I offer some supplemental thoughts to reinforce Bob's treatise. First, many baby boomers need to reassess the legitimacy of their existence as demanded by their own moral imperatives. Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1963 (Roe v. Wade), need to ask themselves if they were the first born (frequently unexpected and unwanted in that era), or the last or accidentally born (frequently unwanted in that era). If so, they would most likely not exist today had their parents been given a choice, nor would their children or grandchildren who so delightfully grace their dinner table. If the truth were known, many baby boomers and their prodigy should recuse themselves from the abortion debate. They are alive because of moral law and should not deny that same right to others. In other words, they should exercise an abortive silence in respect to their own existence. Second, I will begin to consider that a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body only after prostitution has been promoted and legalized by the pro-choice movement. Both abortion and prostitution are products of sexual acts, often with lifelong consequences, and should not be treated differently. Third, there is a difference between innocent life and criminal life. Before the death penalty is made acceptable for innocent life, that same penalty should be made mandatory for rapists and those who commit incest. We should not kill the victim if we are unwilling to kill the criminal. Fourth, illegal drugs also ruin life and kill people. If we stop back alley drug dealers we will naturally develop all the techniques necessary to stop back alley abortions. Otherwise permit drug dealers to set up their own clinics and to approve their own selective homicide, without parental notification. Fifth, reject that the poor have special needs concerning abortion, especially until they have disposed of the three Great Danes in the backyard, the two cats, the tropical fish tank, the skis, bikes, roller blades, $200 tennis shoes, RV's, extra cars, XXXL shirts and dresses, boats, skis, cigarettes, alcohol.... the list goes on. Finally, scientists have made clear what life is and when it begins. In 1996 the world's newspapers proclaimed "Life on Mars" after discovering a fossilized nano-bacteria inside a meteor thought to have come from Mars. What if those scientists had found an embryo fossilized inside that rock? Would they have declared Mars a dead planet? Oregon argued "states rights" to defend its assisted suicide law. If Oregon can win that argument to destroy innocent life, then surely South Dakota can make that argument to defend it.
Anton Kaiser was born in South Dakota. He is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel who graduated from West Point and spent 23 years in the Infantry, including service in Vietnam, West Berlin, and "Operation Just Cause", the Panama invasion. He served in six different Infantry Divisions and spent two assignments serving as an Inspector General.
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