Second Hand Smoke Out Abortion
Mar2
This recent proposal by two legislators in Nassau County brings up an interesting point. Should we hope this law passes? I mean if a woman, who supposedly has a right to do with her body as she pleases, no longer has the right to smoke in her car with her child riding with her, then maybe she shouldn’t have the right to smoke while she is pregnant. And if that is the case, maybe we should take it a step further. If her child being with her dictates what actions she can and cannot do, then why should she be allowed to abort that child, which appears to have more rights than that of herself? Would this legislation help or hinder the Pro-Life movement. It would seem, to me, that it would help. If a woman loses her right to smoke because it may kill her child when it is outside of her body then how much more should she be accountable while it is indefensible in the womb? If smoking is not their choice then neither is abortion, as this short video intimates.
Don’t get me wrong, I think that it is both foolish and selfish to smoke in a car or house where there are people that do not smoke. I do not think however that the government has any business telling those people what they can or cannot do. If the government is going to tell a mother what she can’t do in the presence of her little ones that she birthed, for fear that it may terminate that life, then I think we could build a case, that she has no right to terminate the life that is yet to be birthed within her. In our day and age, the legal system is all about precedence and should this legislation pass, it just might be a the beginning of the end of on demand abortion. What are your thoughts?