Manchin’s fear of an “Entitlement Society”
By Rinaldo S. Brutoco
The following Perspectives column was published in the October 21, 2021 (online and printed) edition of the Montecito Journal as well as on the World Business Academy website.
Roe v. Wade appears to be on its last legs. The current, radical, Supreme Court sits poised to riddle Roe with Texas-sized exceptions or to overturn it all together. Ever since Roe was handed down on January 22, 1973, the press has been full of, and our national politics traumatized by, charges and counter-charges concerning the “right to life.” What is at stake in this current Supreme Court term is whether a woman has a right to control her own body in consultation with her private physician, or whether women will lose that right and be forced to act as baby machines because external political forces are allowed to impose their narrow view of morality on the rest of us.