Kasich Mulls Wasting Millions of Taxpayer Dollars in Court

Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier

As I type this, Ohio’s governor John Kasich is debating whether or not to waste millions of taxpayer dollars by signing a bill that removes all anatomical sovereignty from women in the state if they’ve been preggers for more than six weeks, even if they didn’t know it and even if they came to be pregnant via rape or incest. In fact, should Kasich actually prove so stupid as to not line-item veto the so-called “Heartbeat Bill” from the separate bill regarding how cases of child abuse and neglect are reported on to which it was hastily tacked yesterday, all abortion procedures will be outlawed in the state unless the mother’s life is in peril. The ACLU of Ohio has already pledged to fight the law in court if Kasich signs it, and they’d likely get help from other organizations that fight for individual rights.

The idiot Ohio Senate President, Keith Faber, once opposed the so-called heartbeat bill because it was indefensible in court. Yesterday, he pushed the legislation forward, citing the election of Donald Trump as reason; figuring his impending court appointees will uphold the law. That their opposition comes from the law’s chances in court, and not on the moral grounds that the law is objectively evil in every way, is rather annoying to me.

The abortion issue itself is one of the many things that helped me realize the inherent and exclusive justness of the philosophy of Anarcho-Capitalism. Here, under the machinations of “democracy” we have a handful of people, mostly men, deciding at what point in their lives does half the population of this arbitrary demarcation of land called “Ohio” within the continent we call North America, lose their rights over their own bodies. In the process of doing so, they will be forced to defend their imbecilic law in court, spending millions of dollars they’ve stolen from the very people they’re seeking to oppress. ‘Cuz, they’re “saving babies.”

Then, once these now-saved zygotes actually become babies and are born, in many cases, they and the mommy who didn’t want them to begin with get to go on all sorts of “benefits” which are paid for with money stolen from me and every other productive Ohioan. Lucky us, ‘cuz, they’re “saving babies.”

Of course, some women will be desperate enough to seek the services of an abortionist who isn’t operating in the sort of sterile, well-equipped facilities one would expect a legal medical practitioner to use. If the woman is not permanently mangled, or doesn’t die of infection, she’ll be lucky; and it’ll all be worth it, ‘cuz, they’re “saving babies.”

The entire “Right-to-Life” movement is philosophically bankrupt. When you finally pin a pro-lifer down on why they’re pro-life, it almost always comes back to religion. That religion is no basis for law goes without saying; but in the case of Christianity, it flies in the face of their own theology. Christians supposedly believe god gave them free will; the choice to accept him or deny him and live accordingly. Here, conservatives seek to usurp that gift of free will and force all people to abide by their interpretation of god’s word. The same people that fear the implementation of sharia law have no qualms about subjecting everyone to their religious dictates. The hypocrisy is staggering.

Occasionally, a self-styled “libertarian” will argue that abortion violates the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) that guides the philosophy of AnCaps and real libertarians. This is of course madness. The state telling a woman she has no sovereignty over her own body just because she’s come down with a medical condition quite common to human women is obviously a violation of the NAP. A woman deciding the non-viable parasite living inside her and feeding off of her caloric intake has to go, isn’t. Barring some genuine mental incapacity, the NAP applies to humans that are capable of and willing to accept the rights of others. An embryo at six weeks has no such capability; the woman carrying it does. That’s how the NAP works, that’s why it doesn’t apply to burglars and rapists and murders and thieves; or to animals for that matter.

There simply exists no logical or moral rationale for the state to restrict access to abortion. Period. Any law to that imposes such restrictions is inherently unjust. I wish I could be more confident that Kasich will line-item veto this idiotic bill.