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Amendment 14 and The Right to Choose and the Affordable Health Care Act

Amendment 14, the Right to Privacy, Roe vs. Wade and the Affordable Health Care Law

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

This is the Amendment used to guarantee the freedom of the slaves given by the 13^th Amendment because Congressional leaders were well aware of the bias that existed in the South after the Civil War and wanted to make sure the freed slaves would remain free. This Amendment was disregarded by the establishment of what were known as the Jim Crow Laws that kept African Americans in bondage for 100 years after the end of the Civil War. In a case challenging the segregation laws that came before the Supreme Court in 1898 (Plessey vs. Ferguson) the biased Supreme Court kept the African American population of the South in bondage for over fifty years by declaring segregation Constitutional in the “separate but equal clause.”

Only massive civil rights protests and years of violence and riots put an end to this “final word on segregation” from 1898.

In 1971 the Supreme Court overturned state abortion laws giving females the “right to choose what happened to their bodies” by using the 14^th Amendment in the famous (or infamous) Roe vs. Wade Decision. I was a woman of child bearing age at that time and was am still am dedicated to the principle of pro-choice. But, unlike most of my female counterparts today, I am still dedicated to the principle of choice when it comes to any issues surrounding any medical procedures that invade my right to choose what goes into my body.

 I am opposed to and have rejected any medical treatment that debilitates my body in any way or destroys my God given immune system which is my best treatment against disease. For that reason, I have rejected insurance that covers invasive procedures such as x-rays, mammograms, Pabst smears, unnecessary surgeries, radiation or poisonous chemo-therapies as well as any drugs including over the counter drugs. I have treated all my illnesses since 2003 when I was without insurance with alternative treatments and visits to naturopaths who have helped me with diet and exercise as the best treatments to prevent autoimmune disorders, arthritis and diabetes. I have maintained accident insurance and hospitalization insurance but I have a living will with strict orders about treatments I refuse to accept to maintain my life when I am terminally ill. With the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act I am now told that I must register with a nationally controlled web site and turn over all kinds of private information about my body and its functioning and then I must purchase insurance to pay for the above mentioned treatments I do not want to use or pay a tax penalty. It is my belief that the same Amendment that protected a female’s right to choose in 1971 will protect my right to choose in 2014. Therefore, I am choosing to opt out of this program and if forced to will challenge the Law in the federal courts of the United States the way Roe did in 1971. It is my right and no one has the right to impinge upon the rights of others, especially after they have been members of disenfranchised groups that have fought to gain their rights under the law. You can’t have it both ways in a free country. You cannot use your rights to step on my rights. It doesn’t work that way.

Preserve, Protect and Defend What in Syria

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

This oath has been taking by every President since George Washington took the first oath of office as our country’s first President. It is a requirement before the President can assume office and must be taken at the beginning of every four year term whether the first or second. This oath presents the President’s primary duty and obligation. This promise first states that the President is to faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States and the duties of that office are delineated in the Constitution.

 According to historians, the framers of the Constitution spent much less time on delineating the powers of the President. Instead, when defining the Presidential powers in Article II of the Constitution, the framers wanted to create a chief executive whose power came from the people rather than heredity or force. The Constitution provides little basis for what the Office of President looks like today as compared to what the framers intended. The framers assumed that the legislators would be far more influential. In fact, James Madison wrote that it would “rarely if ever happen that the executive as ours is proposed to be would have firmness enough to resist the legislature.”

Well Mr. Madison, despite all the precautions you and other Founding Fathers took with all the assurances you gave the American people who ratified the Constitution, it has happened. The United States is now run by the Executive Department with a leader (and I do not intend this to be personal toward any President) whose sworn duty has become to his political party, corporate executives and the military. 


In the past week, I was encouraged that the voices of the American people seem to have been heard by this sitting President when he became willing to take the action needed to make sure the voices of the people were heard by letting Congress approve his actions before making a decision on the Syrian crisis. I was appalled to hear the news casters from every major network announcing that the President’s decision to turn over decisions to the will of the people of this free country was somehow a victory for Assad. What are we doing in Syria – are we trying to support people in every way to help them have a democracy like ours where the will of the people is the government and not the will of one person or the military and all of his group of advisors? What is the example we are setting for the free world if the President of the most powerful free country ignores his own Constitution and uses his power to show Mr. Assad that it is our military that makes us strong and not the fact that our people are free? Sadly, this is the state we have come to. I am concerned that the American people and the so called “free press” have come to this state. If the President does not carry out his primary obligation as stated in his oath of office to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” how can we support and protect and defend the rights of other countries who seek to have the same freedom?

America's "Glorious" Past - Notes from "The Peacemaker" available at http://kentuckywoman.net

America's "Glorious Past" in the Fight for Freedom.

1779 - General George Washington orders General Sullivan to "lay waste to all the settlements around (those of the Seneca, Onondaga and Cayuga - all tribes that had supported the colonists during the Revolution) that the country may not be merely overrun but destroyed." Among the Seneca people this earned General Washington the name of Town Destroyer.

1811 - General William Henry Harrison creates a false attack by the natives of Prophetstown, the home of Tecumseh who was away with his warriors on a mission seeking support for his Red Stick Alliance, so that Harrison could massacre the women, children and old men who were left alone and vulnerable and burn the village to the ground.

1832 - Native Americans lose Andrew Jackson's support to uphold the Supreme Court Decision allowing them to keep their lands in Georgia and are sent on the Trail of Tears with only smallpox infested blankets for warmth.

1846 - President Tyler creates a skirmish along the disputed border between the United States and Mexico to enter into the Mexican War.

1890's - Industrialist Dole sets up revolution in Hawaii to take over plantation lands for America's pineapple industry.

1898 - The massacre of Chief Red Cloud at Wounded Knee.

1890's - The hunt for the "terrorist" Geronimo in the area around modern day New Mexico and Arizona.

1898 - Unknown bomber destroys the USS Maine. United States uses this as an excuse to enter the Spanish American War and take over interests in the Philippines and Cuba.

1917 - British intelligence publishes the Zimmerman Note to gain America's support in World War I. Woodrow Wilson ignores the pleas of the female delegation requesting mediation instead of war.

November 17, 1917 - Night of Terror as females protesting for the right to vote in front of the White House  are arrested and treated inhumanely for two weeks until the public demands their release.

1945 - The United States destroys the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the world's first and only use of nuclear weapons against civilian targets.

1960"s - Ku Klux Klan wages uncivilized war against citizens, including children, of African American descent in America's Southland.  

1964 - The Gulf of Tonkin incident leads the United States into the shameful Vietnamese War.

1968-1975 United States uses Agent Orange and napalm attacks indiscriminately in Viet Nam.

2004 - President Bush receives Congressional Support to begin war in Iraq despite the fact that the International Community was still investigating claims of stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction.

And the rest is history so they say. These are only a few of the events that I researched and wrote about in my book "The Peacemaker." As time passes and we have a clear view of "hindsight" we might be able to learn about what's really going on today after it is too late. It is time for Americans to wake up and exercise their rights to a free press to educate themselves about what is going on and make this country a true democracy and role model for the free world and people who sincerely want to live quality lives in peace.

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