Sunstein:Fetuses ‘use’women,abortion limits ‘troublesome’
Obama regulatory chief offers radical new interpretation of Constitution
JERUSALEM – Restrictions on access to abortion would turn women’s bodies into vessels to be “used”by fetuses,according to President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar,Cass Sunstein.
“A restriction on access to abortion turns women’s reproductive capacities into something to be used by fetuses. …Legal and social control of women’s sexual and reproductive capacities has been a principal historical source of sexual inequality,”Sunstein wrote in his 1993 book “The Partial Constitution.”
In the book,obtained and reviewed by WND,Sunstein sets forth a radical new interpretation of the Constitution. In one chapter,titled “Pornography,abortion,surrogacy,”Sunstein argued against restrictions on abortion and pornography.
“Restrictions on abortion,surrogacy and free availability of pornography are troublesome,”he wrote.
“I do not mean to oppose equality to liberty. …Liberty does not entail respect for all ‘choices,’”he maintained.
Sunstein’s views on fetuses are not limited to his 1993 book.
WND reported earlier this month that in a 2003 book review,Sunstein argued there is no moral concern regarding cloning human beings since human embryos,which develop into a baby,are “only a handful of cells.”
In addition to Sunstein’s moral disregard for human embryos,WND reported the Obama czar several times has quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should,therefore,be granted similar rights.
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How long until Cass Sunstein would go after the terminally ill,incapacitated,or dead? Keep reading:
TEL AVIV – President Obama’s newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.
Cass Sunstein also has strongly pushed for the removal of organs from deceased individuals who did not explicitly consent to becoming organ donors.
In his 2008 book,“Nudge:Improving Decisions about Health,Wealth and Happiness,”Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler discussed multiple legal scenarios regarding organ donation. One possibility presented in the book,termed by Sunstein as “routine removal,”posits that “the state owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions,and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.”
“Though it may sound grotesque,routine removal is not impossible to defend,”wrote Sunstein. “In theory,it would save lives,and it would do so without intruding on anyone who has any prospect for life.”
The problem is that Sunstein views people as nothing more than animals. Do I think people should be organ donors? Yes (I am one),but it should be their choice:not the state’s choice,or the federal government’s choice. What has happened over the last thirty years is the mindset that humanity is just part of a large machine. When a part (a human) breaks down,then another part is found to replace that part and the machine keeps going. All people have worth and are important in God’s eyes. Life is precious and humanity is not part of a large cosmic machine.
Gen 1:26-27 And God said,Let us make man in our image,after our likeness:and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,and over the fowl of the air,and over the cattle,and over all the earth,and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (27) So God created man in his own image,in the image of God created he him;male and female created he them.
Mankind is to have dominion over the earth and all the creatures of the earth. We are to treat them properly and be good stewards over what God has given to us.