Life Matters

In this final episode covering election season, Brian gives an overview as to why the "Right to Life" is an essential concept when it comes to laws, law making, and the current elections. The Right to Life presumes an important foundational element to our legal system. It is a statement that the government has certain duties, principally the duty to protect the lives of the governed, and specifically the innocent governed.   The 'non-innocent', the miscreant, it has a duty to restrain in its protection of the innocent vulnerable.  So determination of 'guilt or innocence' is one of its jobs, and government has ascribed that job to the courts.    It is important to note that before 1973 it was recognized that human beings were innocent before birth, and that every state in the nation had laws protecting that child. That was up until the Roe v. Wade decision. Roe did not say that children were 'guilty' and could therefore be killed, it did something even more sinister: the court merely said it didn't think the c