Cheap Seats 2025 By Rich Trzupek

Dobbs in Retrospect - 01/08

By Rich Trzupek
  Fans of the Cheap Seats know that we are not in favor of killing babies, otherwise known as abortion. But we must admit that some of my fellow Americans disagree, identifying themselves as “pro-choice.”
  That label is pretty ironic, since if mom decides to kill the life growing insider of her the infant has “no choice.” But I digress.
  When SCOTUS handed down the Dobbs decision in 2022, overturning Roe v. Wade and half a century of idiocy wherein the official policy of the United States government was that the Constitution guaranteed a “right” to abortion, the pro-choice crowd freaked out.
  Many of the hand wringers, including their dumb-ass allies in the lame-stream media, declared that Dobbs was an abortion ban. It was not.
  Theoretically, abortion could be declared unconstitutional if the Supremes declared that a baby residing in the womb is a person. Under our Constitution persons are entitled to certain protections, including the right to live. Harry Blackmun side-stepped the issue in Roe v. Wade and Dobbs did nothing to bring it to the forefront. Officially, a fetus is still not a person.
  All Dobbs did was to send the issue back to the states. When grumbling libs were forced to admit that Dobbs was not an outright ban, they said it was still just as bad because it meant that women would not have the “right” to kill their babies in those damn red states.
  That has happened of course. About half the states have full or conditional bans on abortion in place. However, despite all the teeth gnashing there were more abortions in America during 2023, the first full year after Dobbs, than there were in 2022.
  States that instituted bans, particularly Texas, saw big drops in abortions that should lighten the heart of anyone who finds the creation of life to be a miracle. But take heart baby-killers, the blue states are picking up the slack, big time. And no blue state is doing more about filling the need to murder unborn infants than my one-time home state of Illinois.
  Need to get rid of that nasty “clump of cells” that some how appeared in your womb? Come one, come all to the Land of Lincoln. Can’t afford it? No worries. Jabba the Guv got you covered!
  You can, I’m sorry to say, still get an abortion in my new home state of Nebraska but only in the first trimester. At least some of the embryos have a fighting chance. Yet, resentment from the pro-choice posse still manifests itself, even here in Husker-land.
  I recently got myself a vanity plate for the first time in my life. The letters “TRZUPR” are spelled out against a background of a silhouette of mother and child walking hand in hand across a rural landscape. Below the bottom of the plate is adorned with a simple message: Choose Life.
  Two simple words – that’s all. But it’s amazing how those two words offend people of a certain persuasion. More than one of my fellow Huskers has flipped me off, sworn at me and brake checked me since I got that plate. Coincidence? I think not.
  Nevertheless, I’m glad I got it and proud to display it. Because life is the choice of a real pro.
  Email: richtrzupek@gmail.com