Alice Paul, the original author of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) back in 1923, was the first person to describe abortion as ‘the ultimate exploitation of women.’
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Broken Connection to Earth
…when Hercules had to do battle with him, Antaeus could be defeated only when his contact with his origin was broken. Then, of course, there is Oedipus, whose name means “lame foot,” indicating a problematic contact with the earth…in education our link with the origins of life is not only a contact with the sacred texts that lie at the origin of truth in life, but also with those human beings who have newly entered life, with children…for the learned men of Wannsee, children were primary targets for extermination…in the Midrash on Psalms we are told that at Sinai God asked “the sucklings and the embryos: ‘Will you be sureties for your fathers, so that if I give them the Torah they will live by it, but that if they do not, you will be forfeited because of them?’ They replied: ‘Yes’”…thus we see what, according to Jewish tradition, is at stake in our adherence to the sacred texts that underlie the highest in higher education. And we see what was lost in the miscarriage of education manifested at Wannsee.
–David Patterson
The Natural Order of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
The order of the unalienable Rights in the Declaration of Independence is significant: Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Each element’s value surpasses any subsequent. Life is granted above Liberties granted. And Liberty is greater than rights which guarantee a pursuit of Happiness. So when, in the course of an evolving government, these rights begin to become redefined and reordered, so too must the government itself.
The history of this era of government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a series of Tyrannies over this people. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world:
It has intentionally expanded and become more centrally powerful by the establishment of a preference to the right of the pursuit of Happiness over that of Liberty and, ultimately, Life:
by failing to grant an unalienable right to Life to people who are among the weakest and frailest in the Nation: preborn people
by allowing, promoting, and pursuing an unrecognized holocaust of people who have no voice to give speeches or lobby their government before they are stripped of their right to Life before they are born in order to promote the subservient right of “choice” (clearly falling under pursuit of happiness)
by failing to recognize that a person’s dependence on another does not strip them of their right to Life, since all mankind is dependent upon someone or something to live