‘The other issue being raised by a large sector of the United States is why taxes paid by those against abortion are being used to subsidize those seeking an abortion…’
THE Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Friday, June 24, 2022, to overturn Roe vs. Wade, aborting the “conceived constitutional right to abortion” mothered by a progressive Supreme Court on January 22, 1973. This historic upset terminated almost half a century of what was dubbed and generally thought of as a guaranteed right under the US Constitution.
After 49 years, the Supreme Court revisited the abortion issue, and it is now clear that there is nothing in the Constitution of the United States that provides the right to abortion.
There is no provision in this sacred document that states, much less guarantees, the right or the freedom of choice to terminate the life of a fetus in the mother’s womb. Even the word abortion, in its current context, is not in the Constitution or Bill of Rights.
Justice Antonin Scalia, a brilliant scholar and one of the most respected members of the Supreme Court, was precisely on target when he declared more than a decade before he died on February 13, 2016 that abortion was unconstitutional, because “the Constitution contains no right to abortion.”
We, The People, have been misled by the progressive left, aided by the mainstream media, to believe that abortion was a constitutional right. The Roe vs. Wade landmark agenda was successfully “created out of thin air” as a right under the Fourth Amendment (the right to privacy), like marital privacy, privacy between a physician and patient, the priest and the penitent, the lawyer and client privilege. It was a bit of a stretch, but somehow “abortion rights” became the law of the land in 1973, resulting in the death of more than 63 million unborn, much more than the casualties of all wars combined.
The other issue being raised by a large sector of the United States is why taxes paid by those against abortion are being used to subsidize those seeking an abortion, that the subsidy should only be borne by those in favor of abortion, the pro-abortion segment of society calling itself pro-choice.
This recent decision of the Supreme Court is expected to be a trigger law banning or restricting abortion in at least 29 States.
Designer vaccines
New vaccines, tailored to be more effective against the new subvariants of Omicron, like BA.4 and BA.5, which are the predominant sub-strains today, are soon to be available by fall or sooner, in preparation for the predicted more than a million new COVID-19 infections during winter.
Since the spike proteins on the surface of the round SARS-CoV2 viruses are the penetrating “needles” that allow the virus to enter the person’s cells to cause infection, and since the spikes differ in each variant or subvariant, the vaccines are designed to mimic each type of spike proteins to promote immunity against more variety of the virus.,
This concept has led to studies that showed a mix and match vaccination is more effective and protective against different strains and sub-strains of the coronaviruses. An example of this is getting Moderna as the second booster after an initial Pfizer-BioNT booster, or Novavax (found to be more than 90 percent effective for mild, moderate or even severe COVID-019 infection). The newer vaccines have been reformulated to also protect against the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5.
As of July 4, 2022, the 7-day average daily case was 105,754, with 389 deaths, and a fully vaccinated rate of 67 percent for the United States. In the Philippines, there were 914 cases last week and a positivity rate of 13.2 percent, nearly 90 percent of the country showing a rise in COVID-19 cases, and 57 percent of the nation with an increasing positivity rate, according to the Department of Health. Almost 71 million people (62.7 percent) in the Philippines have been fully vaccinated out of the 113.2+ million total population.
The pandemic is far from over, with Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 today and potential newer strains in the future, so we have to continue to be careful and vigilant. Masking and social distancing protect everyone and are nothing to be embarrassed about. Life is precious.
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Philip S. Chua, MD, FACS, FPCS, a Cardiac Surgeon Emeritus based in Northwest Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada, is an international medical lecturer/author, Health Advocate, newspaper columnist, and Chairman of the Filipino United Network-USA, a 501(c)3 humanitarian foundation in the United States. Websites: FUN8888.com, Today.SPSAtoday.com, and philipSchua.com Email: scalpelpen@gmail.com
