The failure of big government...

The same socialist left that demands a cradle to grave welfare state supports the “right to privacy” of a pregnant mother whose conduct causes her fetus harm or even death. Since the Supreme Court of Hawaii has recently said that an unborn baby is not a “human being”, a woman whose repeated use of crystal meth immediately preceeding her baby's birth and near immediate death has been freed from prison.

The problem with this line of thinking is simple. The socialist left tells the rest of us that social safety nets are necessary, and always underfunded, yet those of us who provide these very safety nets have no legal or moral authority to regulate conduct of those whose behavior are responsible for the supposed necessity of those safety nets.

With abortion, the left tells us that the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy is hers and hers alone. They tell us that public schools are appropriate fora for sex education, and that union member teachers are the appropriate vehicle for delivery of the lessons. Yet, when their social models unravel, as with pregnant teens seeking abortions for example, they rush to cover it up and stymy any legislative attempts at publicizing the policy failure.

In making their case, the abortion crowd states that babies aren't people, and therefore don't enjoy 5th or 14th amendment protection of their right to life. These promoters of irresponsibility have succeeded in Hawaii at creating a virtual barrier between the life of a person in utero and the life of a person outside of the mother. To them, it is as if a baby spontaneously forms into being at the moment of birth, totally independent of any prior biological or chemical process of itself or its mother.

Now, we have reached a new low where a mother who abuses illegal drugs cannot be held criminally liable for the health of her baby upon delivery, even when that baby will be receiving taxpayer funded medical care, housing, and food. Until such time as the United States government abolishes each and every one of its social agencies and departments, as one American who "contributes" under threat of government coercive force to those social safety nets, I think that I should also retain some level of authority over the conduct of these people who claim to retain some level of authority over the property I earn through my labor.

If these welfare families demand the use of government force to compel my subsidization of them, I demand the use of government force to minimize the amount of damage they are able inflict on my property. Were they to cease demands to the ownership rights of the property that I have earned, I will gladly respond by ceasing my demands that the government regulate their behavior.