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Missouri’s right todisallow the use of
public funds for counseling that in
cludes abortion as an option.
The public employees arc on the
state’s payroll. By providing any
abortion counseling, these employ
ees arc using state funds and violating
suite law. Perhaps the court is sug
gesting that physicians and social
workers use their lunch hour to pres
ent the abortion option to women?
Monday, the Supreme Court gave
the go ahead to states wanting to limit
womens’ right to abortion. The jus
tices didn’t lake it upon themselves to
eliminate the right to abort, but left
that decision to legislative bodies and
future litigation.
Perhaps the justices didn’t want
innocent blood, not just of the un
born, but of pregnant women who
choose to pursue illegal abortions, on
their hands. Justices supporting the
suite’s right to limit abortions, wrote
a directive that is an obvious attempt
to rid themselves of responsibility for
the legislation that will follow their
ruling on Webster v. Reproductive
Health Services.
“Furthermore, the suggestion that
legislative bodies, in a Nation where
more than half of the population is
female, will treat this decision as an
invitation to enact abortion laws
reminiscent of the dark ages misreads
the decision and docs scant justice to
those who serve in such bodies and
the people who elect them.”
This statement is idealistic, at
best, and a cheap way of passing the
buck, at worst.
Any state that severely limits or
removes the right to abort, through
economic manipulation or other
means, is responsible for the conse
quences. Any voter, who deems it
their right to impose their will on
others, is also responsible.
Pregnant women will continue to
make the abortion choice their own,
irrcgardless of what the states and
courts decide over the years. If the
right to abortion is severely limited or
eliminated, this country will once
again see how seriously women
weigh the decision to abort or give
birth — as women will once again
place their own lives in jeopardy to
obtain illegal, unsafe abortions.
Chris Carroll
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