To Live & Die in Quillenia

In, If Roe vs. Wade is overturned (Denver Post 7/24/05); Ed Quillen twists himself into a human pretzel trying to justify abortion. But if one were to accept Quillen’s logic; that abortion is an extension of an implied constitutional “right of privacy” whose moral responsibility rests with the individual, what then would prevent applying those same criteria to murder?
My Mother used to joke,” that it’s too bad abortion isn’t legal until a child is 21”. Perhaps in Ed Quillen’s world that wouldn’t be considered a joke, so why stop at 21? If someone, anyone presents a problem or even a mild headache, invite him or her over for dinner or a hand of Gin Rummy and then in the privacy of your own home – off ‘em! As long as you accept the moral responsibility of your actions, Quillen and his ilk don’t have a problem. Oh, and don’t worry about that little issue of “mutually consenting adults” – just repeat over and over, “I don’t consider you an adult, to me you’re not even human and your continued presence on this Earth is bad for my “mental health”. This mantra has provided all the rational necessary for Pro-Choicers to embrace abortion, for even if there is no explicit right to murder in the Bill of Rights, there could be provisions for murder and it should, therefore, seem logical (to any good Lefty) that since government claimed power over abortion in Roe vs. Wade, (it) could just as reasonably up the age limit to include adults.
Welcome to Ed’s World; where “sanctity of life” is just a punch-line, where anyone who thinks, that the decision in Roe was a little bit worse than just “faulty”, gets labeled a Zealot and where it’s ok to play the “class envy card” when your constitutional arguments don’t hold water. In Quillenia, they’re just making it up as they go and as long as it feels good - they’ll do it. But, come October, there’ll be a new judge in town and by then, Quillen’s techniques of: fear mongering, name-calling and divisiveness just won’t matter much anymore.