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Philadelphia 1789 -- An Imaginary Conversation
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George Washington: "How do you guys think our Constitutional Convention is going so far?"

Thomas Jefferson: "Wonderful! We've protected our right to choose to own slaves, so we will have plenty of free labor to run our plantations and build our infrastructure."

Ben Franklin: "But what about a woman's right to choose?"

George Washington: "They can choose what to cook for supper."

Thomas Jefferson: "They can choose to own slaves."

Ben Franklin: "No. No. That's not what I mean. How about their right to choose to terminate a pregnancy? Aren't we going to include that in our new Constitution?"

George Washington: "Shucks no! We aren't even giving them the right to vote. Besides, this country needs lots of people to tell the slaves what work to do."

Thomas Jefferson: "Gosh. How could they terminate their pregnancy, even if we gave them the Constitutional right to chose to do so? Babies don't want to come out until their time. I mean, a woman can't just reach inside and pull out her baby, can she?"

Ben Franklin: "I can tell you two are not inventors. Someday an inventor, like me, will come up with a way to pull babies out in the early trimesters."

Thomas Jefferson: "Early what?"

George Washington: "Won't that hurt the baby?"

Ben Franklin: "Of course. The baby won't survive. But we are not concerned with babies. It is the woman's right to choose that we need to protect in our Constitution. Besides, it will help us out, too. They will dispose of any unwanted babies we create."

Thomas Jefferson: "What is a trimester?"

Ben Franklin: "Forget it Thomas. Listen guys, do we want to protect the woman's right to choose or not?"

George W.: "Maybe we should give women the right to vote first."

Thomas J.: "Slow down, George! Remember, I said all men -- m-e-n -- are created equal."

George W.: "Oh, yeah. Well, I better get home to Martha."

So . . . Did they? Or didn't they? Is the woman's right to choose to kill her unborn baby included in the US Constitution?

 
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Ed
 Ed
May 21, 2008
Are you a playwright or what?  Excellent!  And excellent thought.  What about it?  I might be wrong, but all the statements in the constitution were based on current thoughts and conditions.  Every future issue is decided on by the court...and all they can do is interpret the "intent" of the Constitutional statements.  That's why we have so many problems today, the courts decide for the rest of us, but then again, it's the system we have.   

Besides abortion (which is a no-brain-er for people who value life) the right to bear arms is another example.  Were the drafters of the original document thinking about the current possibility of war and the need to protect themselves from the British?  Or do you really think they wee looking forward to protecting rights for people like Charleston Heston who stored a multitude of weapons in his home?  Were they thinking about how future methods of mass production would proliferate the possibility for every American to possess a lethal weapon for the price of a restaurant meal?  Were they looking forward to gangs and gangsters and criminals having the right to bear pistols and automatic firearms and ordinance to defeat the police and National Guard?  Did they look to the future and decide that David Koresh needed a warehouse full of weapons to protect his brand of religion?

Can tell that I'm someone who would like to stop the insanity?  Gun control may be a part of the solution.  But, as you pointed out, there are many issues that we as Christians need to think about and act on.
Steve Simms
 Steve Simms
May 21, 2008
Thanks Ed!  I agree that we Christians need to think and act on many issues.  Somehow we have become to passive.