David Brooks is a very articulate idiot

(from brooks' nyt editorial)
"Unless Roe v. Wade is overturned, politics will never get better."

Dear Mr. Brooks:

This is certainly the worst opinion piece of yours I have ever read and may very well rank at the top of my list as the worst opinion piece of all time. You dress it all up in pretty talk but your underlying message is clear and it is the same message Senator Frist will be explicitly or implicitly endorsing this "Justice Sunday."

Roe v. Wade came about for the very same reasons the courts found it necessary to rule that police cannot conduct unauthorized search and seizure or secretly tap your phone, that what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their own bedrooms in Texas cannot be legislated against, and that you and I have the right to keep our medical records private. There is nothing in law that gives the fetus status as a human being and, therefore, what a woman chooses to do with her own body is her choice and hers alone. The courts saw fit to make that clear.

You may hold personal beliefs that Roe v. Wade was not a good judicial action. Many others do as well. I wholeheartedly support your right to hold your beliefs and to make personal choices based on those beliefs. This world would be a much better place if more people identified and behaved according to sound values and beliefs. I try to live my life that way. Sometimes I succeed and sometimes I don't. But, please, within the bounds of law, let me live my life as I so choose and stop throwing support to those who would like to make my choices for me.

Best regards,

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