Obama’s Election may Lead to the Overturning of Roe versus Wade

I am a huge fan of a terrible television show. Yes, I do have a one eyed devil (in the religious world I grew up in, I remember quite a few preachers calling the TV the “one eyed devil”) in my house—well actually I have a few. Tonight I watched Boston Legal, well actually I started watching a few minutes after it started because I was on the phone with my mother and I totally forgot that it was on. But I think Boston Legal has produced its best show ever, in this its final season.
Boston Legal is one of those shows that is always very politically motivated, and I would call it a very left wing minded show. In fact just a week ago I felt like the episode was another infomercial for President Elect Obama. Tonight was different. Tonight the writers of Boston Legal took on the subject of abortion and they debated this
subject as well and as clearly as I have ever heard it debated.
The shows primary character, Allen Shore (James Spader), is typically as liberal as any person you’ll ever meet. His counterpart Denny Crane (William Shatner), is a gun toting, conservative, right wing republican who was swayed at the last minute to vote for a democrat presidential nominee for the first time ever. Both of the show’s primary characters are blatantly immoral. The immorality seemed, to me, to be a knock on the republican, but it just now dawned on me that both characters are immoral so I can’t really say that the writers are painting the republican as immoral as a knock on the right because the liberal democrat is immoral as well.
Anyway, in tonight’s episode of Boston Legal the main subject at hand was abortion and the liberal
characters admitted that they believed they needed Roe versus Wade to mend their conscience about abortion. Two of the blatantly liberal attorneys each admitted that they had never quit regretting the abortions that they had been involved in earlier in their lives. Allen Shore seemed to admit that he had been the father of two aborted pregnancy, and Shirley Schmidt (Candice Bergen) admitted that she never got over the guilt of her abortion.
In what seemed dramatic to me, Allen Shore admitted that he had a little trouble actually believing that a fetus wasn’t an actual human child or that life didn’t start at conception. Personally I believe that most pro-choice advocates, if they were totally honest would admit that they too have trouble pretending that a fetus isn’t actually a human being.
Let me end my little advertisement for an immoral television show by making this shocking and possibly
naïve statement—Obama’s Election may Lead to the Overturning of Roe versus Wade. I know, I know—most of your think I am nuts, maybe I have mad cow disease, but hear me out if you have read this far.
Have you ever been in a good fight? Now this doesn’t seem to be the case with girls, but in my experience— sometimes when two guys getting into a good fight they come out of the fight as friends. Another thing that happens in some fights, fights of the words nature as opposed to fists—is each side runs intellectually to their poles. In other words the conservatives run to the furthest right pole and the liberals run to the left as far as possible. But once the fight is over, there is some seepage or sliding back to where each person actually lives or thinks. This I believe is especially true when you win the fight or debate, and even more so when you convincingly win the debate.
What if, since the liberal democrats won so convincingly they have a new found confidence and they are able to be more honest than ever? What if, as they become honest one of the things that they no longer feel compelled to hold on to as one of their pole issues (by pole issue I mean pole as in polar opposite—or as far apart as the north and south poles) is the issue of abortion?
Well, although I didn’t vote for Obama his election as President of the United States has excited me. I maybe naive and even stupid to even allow this thought from my mind to my fingertips, but it sure would be cool if Obama and other liberal democrats felt confident enough about their party and their platform to reconsider abortion. It seems odd to me that a party so concerned about the environment isn’t equally concerned about human life—see I do believe that life begins at conception.