No 'fundamental right' to murder

Dear Editor,

“A fundamental right to reproductive freedom” is but a disingenuous euphemism for abortion. What the proponents of LR18CA and LR19CA desire is to persuade the people of Nebraska that a fundamental right exists for mothers to murder their unborn child – and that they be given license to do so throughout all nine months of pregnancy, for any reason or no reason.

Naturally, these sponsors begin their pretext by first listing objectively positive aspects: rights to prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum care – all of which are life-affirming, and thus in perfect agreement with God’s Law and the preamble of the U.S. Constitution: “… Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness …”

Peculiar it is that the sponsors should recognize these as fundamental rights but oppose the natural right of parents to make decisions about how their children are raised and educated.

Moreover, we have the abject absurdity of asserting that childbirth is a fundamental right while concluding in the same sentence that there exists a “fundamental” right to murder the child. This diametrical contradiction proves the intellectual dishonesty of the sponsors.

The language includes “abortion care” – as if murder is an objectively reasonable method of “care” – then further lists “contraception, sterilization, miscarriage management, and infertility care.” The term “contraception” is likely a reference to the so-called “morning after pill,” since that method circumvents laws against abortion. Sterilization, miscarriage management, and infertility care, to my knowledge, have never been at issue in the public discourse.

So, let’s cut to the chase: the single reason for these two amendments is abortion, the act of murdering an unborn child, the taking of innocent human life – the epitome of innocence.

What the proponents of these two amendments hope to achieve is the separation of cause and effect: to divorce the consequence of sexual activity from its intended result – the birth of a child. They want the pleasure of sexual union without the responsibility of parenthood. There is an apt phrase for this self-centered attitude: hedonism. To silence their own pangs of conscience the sponsors of these amendments would very much like to make all Nebraskans complicit in the debauchery, hiding the offense of infanticide behind a pretense of “fundamental rights.”

However, there is no fundamental right to commit murder, certainly not in God’s Law – and, in fact, He made specific the prohibition against shedding innocent blood. Neither is such a right stated or implied within the Bill of Rights as amended to the U.S. Constitution. Thus, in both biblical and U.S. historical context, the sponsors of LR18CA and LR19CA have no foundation upon which to support their supposed “fundamental right to abortion;” and thus, no justification by which to propose these appalling amendments to the people of Nebraska.

Bruce C. Desautels

Stratton, Neb.