A Time For Mother's Day and Roe Vs Wade

Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Isn't is interesting that the decision on Roe Vs Wade is being in the news once again, this time to possibly be reversed. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. 

The reaction of a leakage about the decision hit the streets with radicals going bananas, into the old spirit of past demonstrations by destroying property.  Windows were broken of business, and walls of proper buildings were marked up with ugly graffiti in their protesting, acting out as if this is the thing to do when life's rules don't go your way, causing the rest of us to groan and cry and ready to put them all in jail.    Why is abortion a woman's right?  Yes, it is her body, but many people become involved. There's a lot more to it.  One man defiantly answered the reporter's question, saying that attacking the businesses was their way of getting results they wanted.  Hmmm.  

What's this about Roe Vs Wade protecting women's health rights?  It isn't harming my health and I'm a woman.  I'm 87 and taking care of my health as well as I can under our system.  Of course I'm not wanting nor needing an abortion.  One can be a very healthy woman without the need of an abortion.

That's not a condition of health.  It's a condition where a woman wants to end the health of a growing fetus planted inside of her because of her behavior and neglect of not having a device implanted that ends a pregnancy before it starts.  This is all over the social statement of having children out of wedlock without winding up in the poorhouse which doesn't exist anymore.  

A woman that's pregnant is responsible to be as healthy as she can be. Her body reacts and it's said that at this time in her life, she absolutely glows with health and loveliness.  To have an abortion and abort or end the fetus's life calls for an unhealthy act of some surgery, and if not done by the one wanting it, will cause her problems, like with her parents, who will know how she got pregnant.  It might interfere with her job, her dates, and her friends, and her fun.                                             

                                                   

A pregnant woman is told to stop drinking any alcohol or using drugs during her pregnancy.  For some, that is a huge problem.  Have you ever seen an alcoholic syndrome baby?  Their ears are not even in the normal spot on their heads!   This is a huge problem for the child and the government.  It shouldn't happen.  People need education on how to produce a baby to be the healthiest and most intelligent being that they can be.  

Religions usually have a lot to say on this subject.  We know our history, and in the past, a baby born without a legitimate father was termed a bastard.  That was a huge problem for many, as they were not treated respectfully by their culture.  

                                         

Judaism says it's not permitted to murder one person in order to save the life of another.  Consequently, once the greater part of the child has emerged from the womb , it is considered as if the child had been born and the child is then a person in Jewish law.  The life of the mother must not be saved by destroying that of her child.  But, while the child is still in the womb, it is not a person in law.  

To destroy a fetus is not to commit an act of murder, so that when the fetus is destroyed in order to save the mother's life, it is not compatible to the case of murdering one person in order to save the life of another.                      

The Babylonian Talmud, finished in about the year 500 CE,  takes up the matter further.  although it is not permitted to murder one person in order to save the life of another in normal circumstances, it is permitted to kill a potential murderer if this is the only way in which the life of his intended victim can be saved.  When, then, asked the Talmud, does the Mishnah make a distinction between the fetus and the child the greater part of which has emerged?  

True, in the latter case, the child is a person.   That is to say, it is the child which threatens the life of the mother and the law is that a rodef must be killed in order to save the life of his intended victim, and this applies even if the rodef (potential murderer) is a minor and so--not responsible for his actions.  The answer given in the Talmud is that the mother is not "pursued" by the child but by "Heaven," that is it is the result of natural causes and hence, the child's life cannot be made forfeit on the grounds that he is a rodef.                                                      

However, in today's world, being pregnant and not married has become one of the norms of life.  That age group accepts it.  Women feel that it may be the only way they will ever have a child if they are getting on in spinster age-hood.      

A person in such a position might check into the cost of an abortion with Roe and Wade, the cost with its loss, and the cost of a birth delivery.  One can always put the child up for adoption, after all.  Who benefits with Roe & Wade no longer getting the vote?  People in the adoption business who find their customers no longer are interested in Russian babies?  

Why are young women getting pregnant in the first place when they can have permanent protection installed in their bodies?  Why haven't they visited their doctor?  This should be the first question.  

Who is most interested in having sex?  Men are, I say, and that's the way they are created and how it should be.  If they weren't needing this "experience", we wouldn't have the  creation of family grouping.  We'd be just like turtles.  As I think of it, most animals either live in pairs or herds, even birds, with a male tending a group of females.  So men are expecting it in today's society whereas they had to wait until the wedding a few hundred years ago, or even later, maybe the late 1890s.  

Women love the attention.  They would be happy to wait until the knot was tied and they would feel secure in life.

Mother's Day is Sunday, May 8th this year.  Show you mother how happy you are that she didn't abort you, but gave birth to you.  Give her help in something that she can't do herself beside a thoughtful gift of remembrance.  It's that assistance that you can take your time out to do that counts the most to her; making her feel that your time and patience was well worth the trade of the best love she has and gives as well as the pain she had to endure in doing so. 

 You're here because the mothers in your line gave birth for the past 8,000 years, passing a baby onto the next generation until-here you are!                                          

YOU!  Carrying their DNA alive to you!  You were once a fetus, then were allowed to grow into a  baby!

One thing that can help is to make birth easier to handle, financially as well as emotionally.  Everyone should watch "Call the Midwife" on Netflix, and get an idea of the situation England has going in the early 30s and 40s.  Great series!  

Resource:

Book: What Does Judaism Say About...?  by Louis Jacobs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade