Congress Bravely Salutes

Congress Bravely Salutes the Flag of Expedience
By Jim Freeman

In all their majesty, the House and Senate have drawn their shrinking reputations up to full height, cleared their money-grubbing throats, considered with terror the upcoming fall elections and given us a law that serves no one.

They have made it a federal crime to take a pregnant minor to another state to obtain an abortion without her parents' knowledge. Is there no way to get these nitwits out of our hair, rap their knuckles with a ruler and demand they do useful work?

The Congress of the United States has not seen fit to tell the individual states whom they may kill within their prison systems, or for what crimes or by which means and yet they claim the need to prevent young prospective mothers from choosing abortion.

What a disgrace.

The stately gentlemen in Washington will not suffer the consequence of this outrageous fiddling with privacy. They seldom, if ever, suffer the consequence of their own idiocy--they are too rich for that, too privileged, too irresponsibly out of the line of fire.

Young women who have no viable relationship with either parent will be the victims.

Conceivably (in this matter of conception), a minor female, made pregnant by her abusive father, who’s mother remains in denial about that abuse, would need her parents permission to seek abortion. That’s pretty draconian. One can readily admit that, while incest may be an unusual circumstance, parental estrangement is overwhelmingly an ingredient.