Hamfast58

I have been told I can respond to the latest community announcement here,  but I doubt it will be seen by many... but here it is...

In 1857 the Supreme Court with a 7-2 decision found that "Negro's (now known as African Americans) could not be United States Citizens"... in 1883 an 8-1 decision by the supreme court struck down (in 5 different decisions) the civil rights acts of 1875... in 1896, in an 8-1 decision that upheld state segregation laws with their "Separate but Equal" ruling... it took 2 constitutional amendments and almost 100 years to overturn Dred Scott v. Stanford, Plessy v. Ferguson and the Civil rights cases of 1883... by your logic, those decisions should still stand.

In 1918 in a 5-4 decision, the court ruled Congress could make no law limiting Child Labor in intrastate commerce so kids could work in mines and factories, it was overturned in 1941... by your logic, this should still be the law of the land.

In 1927, in an 8-1 decision, the court ruled in favor of forced sterilization of those that were "Unfit", which could include those like Margaret Sanger, a believer in the theory of eugenics, that it should include the "lesser races"... this is still the law of the land, it has yet to be overturned...and by your logic, you should be happy about that.

In 1973, in a 7-2 decision, the court decided a case brought by Norma McCorvey (Jane Doe) who had been told first to claim it was rape and then that it was just a meaningless clump of cells by the lawyers that offered to take up her case, and this was not the first case, the first case was tossed out because the woman was not pregnant, this case started in 1970, was postponed, Norma McCorvey had given birth and the child had been adopted and tried to pull out of the case, the "Meaningless lump of cells" she had been told about at the start, turned out to be her third child... but her lawyers continued anyway. Privacy was argued, as was personhood, when does the fetus, that small lump of cells, become a person? The Supreme court decision was made in a bit of a rush, 2 justices had been replaced, and the new appointees would most likely vote against striking down the Texas law at the heart of the case. Using the 14th amendment to find a right to privacy that did not exist in the amendment or the constitution... it used the due process clause to say that a woman and her doctor had the right to decide beyond state laws to terminate a pregnancy. The Dissenting opinion did not state that abortion was bad or not, but that the court had overreached in deciding to announce a new constitutional right for pregnant women without reason or authority. 

The problem with the Roe vs Wade decision is found in the less than 30 words in the 10th Amendment, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, or to the people." There is no right to abortion in the constitution, it should therefore be left up to the States and the people.

The lie we are hearing and have heard for decades is that overturning Roe vs Wade would make abortion illegal, that is not and has never been true, it just returns the decision to the states, where local elections for the local legislators would determine the laws. 

Where were the "My body my Choice" people when the Government tried to mandate everyone get vaccinated? they were silent...

Of 63,459,781 people, how many could be teachers, doctors, researchers, lab technicians, game designers, musicians, poets, or writers? How many would find love? perhaps 1 of them would have found a way to bring world peace, to cure cancer or the common cold... but they can't, they never got the chance... 

You advocate that you support tolerance... but my views are not tolerated.

I support women's rights, I support the right of people to love who they love, to marry who they wish, or not if that is what they choose and I think governments federal, state, and local should pass no laws restricting them. I support the rights of individuals to believe how they wish, to worship how they like, and to congregate freely with other like-minded people, and may no government entity restrict that... but I do not support forcing people to comply with the views and beliefs of others. The truth is, I am not all that worked up over abortion, while I think it's wrong, I hate peanut butter more but I would not stop anyone from eating it...

The best way to show tolerance is to leave your politics out of the game, play it to have fun with friends of all different stripes, stop taking offense to any little thing that does not concern the game, and in fact, leave that intolerance out of the game entirely... and support your local healers, they are doing the best they can