{"id":14763,"date":"2024-10-09T18:36:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=14763"},"modified":"2024-10-16T02:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T05:42:44","slug":"881-the-politics-of-abortion-rights-versus-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/14763","title":{"rendered":"881 – The politics of abortion: Rights versus Status"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yet, it has long been understood that ‘abortion’ – as a political issue – is unresolvable in terms of satisfying a voting majority<\/strong>, which is why most political parties wisely avoid raising it. Some believe that abortion should be banned outright, others at various stages during a pregnancy, and still others are supportive of abortion up to and ‘after birth.’<\/p>\n

By pushing the abortion issue into the political arena, Democrats have successfully forced their opponents to address the issue<\/strong>, a tactic that tends to reveal weakness and division among those on the Right. <\/p>\n

For example, Trump<\/strong> has been celebrated by the Right for having reversed Roe vs Wade<\/strong>, thus returning the jurisdiction over abortion back to the individual states, as per the American Constitution. On the other hand, many on the Right were outraged by Melania Trump’s recent publicized support of a woman’s right to an abortion. <\/strong> <\/p>\n

And in Canada the new ‘right wing’ Unity Party of Canada<\/strong> has formed to compete specifically with the People’s Party of Canada<\/strong> with whom it shares many policy initiatives, save for the issue of ‘abortion.’ (Not exactly what one might expect from a party promoting ‘unity.’) <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the entire abortion controversy is being debated in a moral, political, and intellectual vacuum. <\/strong><\/p>\n

One side argues that the unborn have a ‘right’ to life. The other side argues that women have a ‘right’ to abortion. As ‘rights,’ these two assertions are diametrically opposed to each other and therefore cannot co-exist in a political context, nor in practice.<\/p>\n

The reality is that neither the unborn or children in the care of their parents or guardian are capable of having ‘rights.’<\/strong> Without such autonomy, they also cannot legally consent. However, what they do have can best be referred to as a specifically defined ‘status’<\/strong> originating in, and enforced by, law.<\/p>\n

For those wishing to save the lives of the unborn, this should be good news. As strange and as counterintuitive as it may seem, some lives are better protected under a given ‘status’ than they are by being given ‘rights.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Consider how those out to abuse children have been arguing that children have a ‘right to consent’<\/strong> to genital mutilations and other similar atrocities under the mythical ideology of ‘gender identity and trans-sexuality.’ The parents – those with actual rights who are responsible for the status of their children – lose their authority to protect them.<\/strong> That’s because the state has conferred something it calls ‘rights’ on to children incapable of possessing them.
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\nAcknowledging the ‘status’ of children and the unborn rather than according them ‘rights’ is a necessary perspective to adopt before a rational discussion on the issue is possible.<\/strong> There are no perfect solutions to this political conflict in the sense of resolving it any time soon. But it seems to us that it’s Just Right that the goal should be to save lives, not to fight for ‘rights’ that do not and cannot exist.<\/p>\n

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The issue of ‘abortion’ has once again been thrust into the political arena. America’s Democratic Party has practically become a ‘single issue party’ campaigning for ‘abortion rights’ extending from conception to birth – and beyond. Yet, it has long been understood that ‘abortion’ – as a political issue – is unresolvable in terms of satisfying [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,165,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-latest","category-political-parties","category-politics","issues-abortion","issues-infanticide","issues-politics","issues-unity-party-of-canada","category-12-id","category-28-id","category-165-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14769,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14763\/revisions\/14769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}