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mailing:
by Alan M. Dershowitz
• March 16, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The issue is not whether
there should be choice, but rather who should make the
choice.
- Why should pregnant
females who have compelling reasons -- medical, emotional,
familial, religious, financial -- not have the right to
choose? Why should the impersonal state take that right from
them?
- What gives other
people the right to decide, when they are not the ones who will
have to bear the consequences?
The Supreme Court justices who decided Roe v. Wade,
photographed in 1972.
There is no
conflict between the "right to choose" and "the right
to life" in the context of abortion, because the former includes
the latter. If the state were ever to require a pregnant woman to
undergo an abortion -- as China in effect did with its "one
child" policy -- there would be a conflict. But in the United
States, the right to choose includes the right to choose life rather
than abortion. It also includes the right of women to choose abortion
for themselves.
So, what are
the anti-abortion right-to-life advocates complaining about? They do
not want any woman to have the right to choose abortion for herself.
They want to have the state chose for her -- to deny her the
right to choose between giving birth to an unwanted child and having
an abortion.
by Maria Polizoidou
• March 16, 2017 at 4:00 am
- The Greek people have
just about reached the limits of their strength. The economic
situation is tragic. Illegal immigration is out of control,
criminality increases day by day. The political system is
steeped in corruption and the media have stopped being the
communication channel between citizens and the political system.
The Greek media are functioning as the praetorian guard of the
euro; they favor the massive admission of Muslim populations
into Greece and they fiercely attack every voice that disagrees
with them.
- Bishop Ambrossios is
urging people to revolt. He characterizes the illegal Muslim
immigrants entering the country as conquerors. He also says that
Christianity is under attack in Greece, while Islam is being
daily reinforced. He says that Greek Orthodox churches are being
desecrated, robbed and burned by Muslim immigrants while the
state just sits by and looks on.
- Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras does not fully control his political party; his biggest
problem is his cabinet.
One possible scenario is that the Germans will force
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to resign and go to elections.
Pictured: German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Tsipras, on
December 16, 2016. (Image source: phoenix vor Ort video screenshot)
When a
political system is corrupt, when the media only put out propaganda
and not information, when oligarchs control public life, when the
political system seems repeatedly directed against the interests of
its own people, when a political system ignores the constitution and
the will of the majority but draws its legitimacy once every four
years through elections, then, although it may be called
"democratic", it is a democracy of junk. It is not the
people's democracy anymore; instead, it belongs to the elites.
If Greeks do
not take back their homeland, wrote journalist Makis Andronopoulos on
January 3, 2017, the guns may well have the last word. Andronopoulos
wrote that he came to this conclusion after polls showed the
detachment of the political system from the Greek people and their
tragic way of life.
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