Battlefield Tennessee

Tennessee, home state of Al Gore, has joined South Dakota and Mississippi in taking steps to set limits on abortions.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The state Senate on Thursday passed a proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution so that it doesn't guarantee a woman's right to an abortion.

The 24-9 vote was the first step of many toward officially amending the state constitution. The measure would go before voters if the General Assembly approves it twice over the next two years.

Amending the Tennessee Constitution is a long process, with the final step being the approval of the voters. That's so...democratic -- putting the issue before the people of the state.

Such an approach runs counter to the SOP of liberals. Since they can't win at the ballot box, their preferred method to achieve points on their agenda is via judicial fiat. They count on liberal judges to act as advocates for social change that they can't accomplish through the state and federal legislatures.

On January 22, 1973, all fifty states were not interested in legalizing abortion. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court ruled that abortion was a right guaranteed by the Constitution.

Read about Griswold v. Connecticut, "The Bad Decision That Started It All."

In that case, the Supreme Court created the notion of a "right to marital privacy." That specific ruling was soon generalized into a "right to privacy," which was then applied to justify the constitutionality of a number of activities, including abortion.

When those nine men in black robes decided to throw out all state abortion laws in 1973, they overstepped their authority. Roe v. Wade was bad law. In a quest to impose their views on American society, these unelected justices undermined the other branches of government when they took on the role of legislators and wrote public policy.

..."The resolution is an all-out attack on the women of Tennessee and seeks to rob women of their right to make choices about their own health, safety and personal welfare," said Hedy Weinberg, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee.

This hysterical reaction from the Tennessee ACLU doesn't help the pro-abortion movement.

The resolution doesn't rob women of their right to make health-related choices. Potentially, it could limit a woman's right to abort a life, but that is not the same as robbing women of their right to make decisions about their health.

Why does the pro-abortion movement seek to equate health care for women with killing a developing fetus?

These abortion supporters act as if abortion is the key to women's health. It's all or nothing with them. They seem to say that if there's no abortion, then women will be doomed to an unhealthy life, physically and emotionally.

That's not true. It's illogical.

Legal restrictions on abortion do not mean that women no longer have the right to make choices about reproduction and their health.

A woman's right to abortion on demand just wouldn't be one of the options.