What gives the government the right to say anything about sex?

Where in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights does it give the Federal or the State governments the right to interfere with personal decisions like sex and abortion?

Let me state up front that I believe that abortion is an excuse for immoral people to not have to accept the responsibility for their actions!

No woman in this day and age can claim that they do not know how they got pregnant, because women get pregnant the same way most of them have gotten pregnant for thousands of years; they had sex!

Now that I have cleared up that big mystery, I will let you in on another not-so-secret secret: You will NOT get pregnant if you do not have sex! For those of you who may have missed that last point, then let me rephrase it:
If you do not want to get pregnant, do not have sex!

So, now I have just eliminated the need for most of the abortions done in the world. Sure, rarely, it may be necessary to have an abortion to save the life of the mother, however, that does not excuse the majority of you who just have sex for the fun or entertainment of it with no intention of being a responsible parent.

If getting pregnant and having a child would cramp your style too much, then don't have sex!

Now, back to my original question. What gives government the right to interfere with personal decisions like sex and abortion? Is your having an abortion a threat to national security? Does it affect MY ability to seek or have happiness? Does it stand in the way of providing for the national defense? Are these not the main responsibilities of government according to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?


So, what does give them the right to say anything about sex? It probably has something to do with the fact that the laws of the United States are mostly based on the Judeo-Christian ideas of morality. I am confident that much of the government's meddling in personal affairs in the last 300 years came about because someone (aka "do-gooder") with power, or their wife, decided on purely religious grounds that society would be better served if access to sex outside of marriage (prostitution, adultery, fornication) and abortion were controlled by the government. That, however, still leaves the question of what legal reason do they have to poke their nose into the private moral affairs of individuals? Is it not true that morality is a question better left to individual citizens and their church to decide? What gives the government the right to legislate morality? They certainly have the right to enforce the laws needed for a civil society, but what gives them the right to control sex?

The decision of Roe vs. Wade should never have happened, because there should never have been any involvement in the abortion issue by the government. Even the certifying of doctors comes from the university and not the government, so you cannot blame it on those back-alley slice-and-dice shops. Yes I know that you must be certified in the state you practice in, but mostly that is just a rubber stamp of the medical college where you got your training. Soooo, WHY does a doctor, need a certificate from the state to practice medicine when they are already certified by a totally unrelated entity (the university/college)? Maybe the states have overstepped their boundaries by even demanding that state certification, although that is a discussion for another day.

In summary, I do not think the Federal or State governments have the right to interfere with personal decisions like sex and abortion. Secondly, there is no need for an abortion, except in rare situations. Instead of saying women have the right to an abortion, maybe we should go back to the original rule as stated in the ten commandments: "no sex outside of marriage!" If you get pregnant after violating that rule, then you must either raise the child yourself or give it up for adoption. However, if we follow the original Jewish rules, there would be no need for an abortion, because anyone found having sex outside of marriage would be stoned to death. For those of you who think that stoning a pregnant lady violates the laws of God, then take it up with Him, because He is the one that put that law on the tablets. If you want to appeal that idea to a higher court, then good luck!

For you ladies I have just one last question. Why did you work so hard to get the government involved in sex? First there were "red-light" districts. Then there were legal brothels like in Nevada. Then, you decided that the government really needed to get involved in everyone's personal affairs in order to force the consequences of having had sex (pregnancy), in spite of that inconvenient church law about infidelity, to go away. Are you happy now? You can now go out, be immoral tonight, and just flush the responsibility down the toilet. Heck, why wait until tonight? Why not just go out and do it at lunch time. That way you can be immoral again tonight as well!