European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 15, 1991. The stars and stripes a Page 13 commentary William f. Buckley  simple solution for abortion Paradox Patricia Ireland who is the acting head of the National organization for women had a rousing weekend culminating in her Promise to relieve the United states of the torment that would ensue upon Clarence Thomas ascent to the supreme court. She rests her Case As Eleanor Holmes Norton did before her quite simply namely on a woman a right being a constitutional right. We should examine the implications of this position. If the right to abort is a constitutional right even though it is not listed among the Bill of rights nor in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments which cons Titu tonal sized the emancipation proclamation certain things follow upon this. It becomes much More than merely a civil right about which there can be Contention on into the Ages. If Roe is. Wade should be thought of As a part of the Constitution then it would follow that no one who disputes Roe is. Wade is qualified to sit on the supreme court for the simplest of reasons namely that in order to do this one must Promise to defend the Constitution of the United states. We know for instance that justices Byron White and William Rehnquist voted against Wade in 1973. If it has constitutional status and in any future decision they expressed their dissent from Wade then we have surely grounds for impeachment. Moreover if this were True then it was derelict of the Senate judiciary committee not to persevere in their questions to nominees of Connor Bork Kennedy and Souter on the matter of abortion. If a senator were to say to judge Thomas a Tell me judge do you believe that Congress should make no Law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the Freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble or to petition the government for a redress of grievances a it would not do for judge Thomas to say a sorry senator but i cannot comment on any matter that May present itself to the court in the  because the senator would then say a but i am quoting from the Constitution of the United states which you would have to Promise to observe and defend a it is very difficult to see How Ireland Isnit manifestly saying that to the words just quoted there has been an a ,uh-0h., Bush s nominated thdwi6.better wind creation and that the amendment in question should go on to read a Congress shall make no Laws prohibiting the Freedom of  it is Only when examined in this Light that the hyperbole appears a wearing so to speak Only the a string of a single opinion by a court with which opinion Many judicial scholars and historians whatever their own views about abortion continue to disagree. But the argument cannot rationally go Forward unless the choices agree to accept the Only reservation that acknowledges that there is another Point of View. It is the question of whether other rights Are involved than the woman a right when an abortion takes place. The new York times on july 6 featured on its oped Page four photographers notions of what is wrong with America one of which was nakedly and even blasphemous by anti Catholic it pictured a Man wearing a roman Collar not to be confused with a rabbi handling a steel Crucifix As one might a pistol and holding it ready to fire at the Temple of a Young Man. The text records the photographers complaint that Quot some religious groups not to be confused with Christian scientists have made victims of a millions of women who Are attacked on their most painful private Choice of conscience whether to have an  this is the critical Para Louism in the choices so line of argument. What they should be saying is that the woman a right to abort is Superior to the right of the fetus to live. About that there can be argument. There can to be argument unless it is acknowledged that there is a question there having to do with putative perhaps inchoate rights of the fetus. That Way disputants pass one another by on opposite sides of the Street. And then of course the Ireland of this world Are impaled on a Paradox of their own making. If it is True that the. Women of America plus the majority of the men of America believe in that right As enunciated by Roe is. Wade Why do they need a judicial Excog tation of it ? the 14th amendment became a part of the Constitution through due process. Why not go for a constitutional amendment or if not that simple votes by the state Legislatures authorizing abortion on demand c Universal Pross Syndicate Joe Murray no one knows Beans about things that count liberals Are no fun anymore. I had a Bunch at the House awhile Back. All they wanted to do was fuss at me about my Wolf skin Rug. As usual with liberals they had the facts All wrong. They thought it was a Bearskin. They done to realize How big a Wolf grows to be. The Way they carried on a and liberals do carry on a you a have thought id selected it the Way you do lobsters in a restaurant picked exactly that one and had it taken out Back killed and skinned. The Wolf skin Rug was already a Wolf skin Rug when i first saw it. Its no More dead because i have it on the floor in front of the fireplace of the Little House where i write. They finally agreed with this much of what i said that it was too Small to be a Bear. Most of them anyway on fellow still held out a a it a probably a Little baby  a the ecology in them talking. You a think liberals would have other things to talk about More so most recently. Time was when you could party with the liberals and vote with the conservatives. I think too Many of us did exactly that. We did t dance with the one what bring us. Now the party a Over. Glum liberals Are no fun. As for the conservatives they re too Busy being in charge to be any fun inflicting the nation with the moral prejudices of the majority. They re the majority you know. But if you count yourself among them better count your Money to make sure. Their majority is made up of those with the majority of the Money always has been always will be. That a where they fooled us. They broke up the minority coalition of common people. Every common Man regardless of race Creed or color is a minority of one. We had to stick together to stick up for one another. Either that or get it stuck to  they separated us one by one one against the other. Now they can Stop the bus and search you for reasons of their own. They can hold you in jail 48 hours without charges. They will Send you to prison for life a mandatory sentence in Michigan if you have More than a Pound of cocaine. You done to have a Pound of cocaine you re not Ever going to have a Pound of cocaine you re of then. But How about your sons and daughters grandchildren and great grandchildren that a what turned every thing around a generation ago and liberalized our drug Laws. We  stand to see our children made criminals for Possession of a marijuana cigarette. You be probably forgotten but Back in the 1960s in Texas they sent a Man to prison for life for one marijuana cigarette. His name was Lee Otis. I never will forget that name. Because old gov.  was Riding along in his governors limousine and a Gaggle of protesters was chanting a free Lee Otis free Lee Otis a and old gov. Preston Smith asked his aide Why those people were so upset about Beans. The aide said us what a that you say governor and old gov. Preston Smith said Why Are they chanting a Frijoles Frijoles a he did no to know Beans about what was going on. Do you Joa Murray Altor pub thir Mallut Oltha Lufkin daily new in an. 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