TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022 COMPARISON - PROHIBITION / ABORTION

 TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022 COMPARISON - PROHIBITION / ABORTION

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First - from another person’s blog (Thomas Billing)

Prohibition brought crime and death. Repealing Roe would have a similar outcome. |Opinion (yahoo.com)

(Note, this part was written before the official decision was announced)

“The possible overturning of a law that was working well by the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future gives me pause to reflect.

“I think that there likely are some striking similarities with the controversial amendment passed in the early 1920s — Prohibition. That amendment was created as a cave-in to some radical people (mostly the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), who hated the consumption of alcohol, so they pushed to have it banned.  “Thomas W. Billing

“The ramifications were that it created organized crime that sold bootlegged whiskey. The first thing that took place was that many members of Congress who passed this law hustled out and bought all the booze they could get for their own homes before the law took effect.”

“There were many bathtub gin producers who did not know what they were doing and created poison in some cases that killed people.

“Eventually, Congress realized that it was the worst amendment ever passed and created one to end it.  The damage had been done, however, as organized crime was flourishing and likely will continue to do so going forward.”

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(end of Thomas Billing’s comments)

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Karen’s Comments - after the SCOTUS said Roe v Wade was unconstitutional

I am a spiritual person, and (I suppose) a religious person.  Killing a child in the womb doesn’t sound very loving.  (But, killing anybody, really isn’t very loving.)  Who am I to judge whether a woman can or should get an abortion?  Who am I to say alcohol is bad for social drinkers?  

In the early 1920s, forces united to make alcohol illegal in the United States.  (My grandmother was an active member of the WCTU - Women’s Christian Temperance Union).  

There are a lot of evils in alcohol.  Drunk drivers, abusive husbands (and/or wives), funds spent on alcohol that should be spent on family needs, gambling, stealing, cheating, etc. Plus alcohol has many health issues -liver disease, cancer, ulcers, and more.

There are a lot of evils in abortion.  Killing a child who may have become a hero, or a leader, or an inventor of cancer solutions (or a gang leader, a child who is unwanted and unloved from conception).

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But, I anticipate that there will be (and already is) gloating and rejoicing in the evangelical Christian and Catholic communities; and that there will be (and already are) protests and cries from the pro-abortion communities.

Like prohibition, legal forces (in this case the Supreme Court of the United States(SCOTUS)) made the decision for us; and in prohibition, congress and the states made laws banning alcohol.  

Recently a newsfeed I received talked of a busload of 15 women drove from Dallas to New Mexico to get an abortion.  The costs were underwritten by abortion supporters.  Some major companies have indicated they will cover the costs of transportation to states that allow abortion from states (like Texas) that have banned abortion.  

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It is a tough choice to get an abortion or to carry a child to term.  Some may opt to give up the child for adoption 

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Personally, I hope when two people have sex that (a) they are in love; and (b) if they are not in a position to have children, they use birth control.  

Family planning is necessary these days.  Economically, many families need two incomes to pay for mortgages, cars, families, and the “necessities” of life (and the “wants” of life).  

Men - I know you get excited and your brain turns off and your sexual (animal???) urges turn on.  Be loving - don’t have intercourse unless you are prepared to be an instant father.  

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Back to the theme - prohibition was an idea based on good logic.  Alcohol was ruining families.  I know of many families where alcohol has gotten out of line.  Abuse can be the result of alcohol.

And, sexual lust - stopping the killing of a child in the womb is also an idea based on good logic.  Controlling lust, and controlling a pregnancy for the sake of a time of intimacy isn’t a good plan.  LOVE WINS.  

If you are lustful (and I understand how that can happen), make sure you are using “failsafe” methods to stop conception.  

As for the religious basics - they seem to be similar between prohibition and abortion.  Stopping the sale of alcohol and stopping the killing of a child in the womb.  Good ideas - but it isn’t going to work.

With prohibition, organized crime took over the alcohol business (and still flourishes today).  With stopping abortions in a state, organized trips to other states that allow abortions - or the really bad “back alley” abortions may occur.  

Children are conceived with TWO people - a male and a female.  Only one carries the child to birth - the female.  A note to men - love your partner and be responsible.  If a child is not a good plan at the present time, delay causing a child appropriately (or … don’t have sex)!!

The issue has gotten way out of hand.  The hype surrounding abortion is tremendous - on both sides. 

I know a close personal friend who had an abortion at age 19.  The young man wanted sex and she wanted the young man.  That relationship didn’t last.  She is a very successful business lady.  I’m guessing she may periodically wonder “what if” she didn’t end the pregnancy.  

Maybe it is like a married lady whose husband gets drunk and comes home and smacks her and throws her down the stairs or burns her with his cigarette.  What if he didn’t drink?  What if they didn’t have sex?

(and, excuse me for this)- I know of men who “think” with their sexual organs, they do relish the thought of being “studs”.  Now pregnancies come from one basic act - love, or lust.  It can be hard to distinguish between the two.

Karen

June 28, 2022