Monday, November 14, 2016

State sovereignty?

this is a dilemma.  The states' electoral colleges elected Trump.  We did not have majority rule as a people.  Is this right or wrong?   Churchill said, [I won't put it in quotes because it may not be an exact quote]:  Democracy is the best system of government in the world, and the worst system of government in the world.  Well, so who knows,God?  S/He is not talking.

Trump [so he got what he wanted, his name is everywhere] ...is saying that states should have the right to decide on the abortion issue.  I am more in favor of the opinion that this is a woman's right to decide [didn't we pass ERA as a nation?  We are a nation, not just a system of states.]

There is one good thing that could come of that, if it ever happened.  Doubtful it would.  But, here it is:  If states were to decide the issue for themselves, this could prevent what's still happening in the midwest -- blowing up of abortion clinics.  However, there would be hopeless women not wanting to raise a baby, not able to move to another state, possibly committing suicide or as in the old days, performing self-induced abortions that would often lead to the death of the baby and themselves.  Of course, there are the obvious problems a woman and her children will have if she can't afford any more children and if her education is thwarted and so on and so on.

I believe these men who claim to be able to decide the issue for women on religious grounds have been reading a little too much of the old patriarchal parts of the Bible, such as passages in Corinthians and Timothy.

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