Senator Chuck Grassley holds a town hall in his home district, and fields a variety of voter questions. Here is what follows:
CONSTITUENT: They’re saying that they’re going to start, in 2013, putting microchips in government workers and then any kid that enrolls in school, starting in pre-school, will have a microchip implanted in them so that they can track them. […] Is that true?
GRASSLEY: No. First of all, nothing can be done to your body without your permission. It’d be a violation of the constitutional right to privacy if that were to happen.
Yes, that’s true. The government can’t force anything to happen to your body. This is why there was such a controversy over the HPV ‘Gardasil’ vaccinations a short time ago.
Yet somehow that affirmation becomes the following headline from Scott Keyes:
Oops: Top Republican Senator Inadvertently Embraces Roe v. Wade
The constitutional “right to privacy” does exist since Roe v. Wade, which as you folks know, legalized abortion.
What Sen. Grassley says is that “nothing can be done to your body without your permission”.
How is pregnancy and abortion something being done to your body without your permission?
Follow me here:
If you adopt a dog and try to kill it, the government can send in animal control to protect the dog, even if it’s on your property, because you are harming it.
If you adopt a child and try to kill it, the government can send in child services to protect the child, even if it’s on your property, because you are harming it.
Getting pregnant is also a choice (pretty sure Tiffanie on the corner who got knocked up didn’t do so through Immaculate Conception). Therefore, getting yourself pregnant is not “someone doing something to your body without permission”. Intentionally harming your child while you’re pregnant is child abuse. You’re not hurting yourself, you’re hurting the child. If you copiously drink or smoke crack while you’re pregnant, you’re hurting the child. Aborting the child is hurting the child. Before you’re hurting yourself, you’re hurting the child.
So how is that any different from hurting a dog, or an adopted child? It isn’t. The ‘right to privacy’ is for you and you alone.
