Doody said:
Is it right and proper for a governing body of mostly men to tell women what to do with thier bodies? I do not think so.
What right do a bunch of 60 year old men have to tell me, an 18 year old voting member of society, that I can can go to war but can not go the bar and have a drink?
What right do a bunch of 60 year old men have to tell me that I can not go buy 120 lbs. of pot?
What right do a bunch of 60 year old men, most of whom don't drive themselves anywhere anymore, have to tell me that I can only drive 75 mph on the interstate?
What right do a bunch of 60 year old men have to tell me that I have to go to school until I turn 16?
The answer is the same for all those questions I have listed and the question you have asked.
They have the right to do so because we gave it to them, we, the people of this nation who voted to put these men and women into office, gave our lawmakers the right to make the laws that govern this nation and it is we, the people who are ultimately responsible for the actions of our government because we put them in office and we have the power to take them out of office. If Congress makes a law saying that every man over the age of 40 must be castrated and the Supreme Court upholds it we are responsible for that law being passed because we put the men in office who wrote this law, edited it, passed it and appointed the men and women of the Supreme Court who upheld the law.
That governing body, made up mostly of white males, has the right to tell us what to do because the men and
women of this country gave it to them.
And I am just going to throw this out there and if anyone wants to pick it up, fine. There are a lot of women in this state who are also against abortion and from what I have seen and heard, VIA the local news and talking to my co-workers, support for this bill is equal amonst men and women. Age is the true determining factor here, not gender.