Saturday, July 22, 2006

Selective Privacy
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We are all equal, but some are more equal than others.

If you are fourteen-year-old girl who is pregnant, you have the force of the United States government and her courts to grant you the right to grant you privacy from even your own parents, so that you can quietly kill your unborn child.

If you are the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, you have the privacy to keep your military records sealed from any public scrutiny.

If you are the President of the United States AND a Democrat, you are granted privacy to keep anyone from accessing your medical records--records that might reveal systematic drug use.

If you are a child protective services worker dealing with a child, you are granted privacy in dealing with your client.

If you are a sixteen year old boy, and do not want to endure another miserable round of chemotherapy, because the first round did not cure you, you have no privacy. This is true, even if you have the full, knowledgeable support of both your parents. You have no right to pursue the type of treatment that you desire. What is happening to sixteen-year-old, Abraham Cherrix, in Norfolk, Virginia, is an absolute disgrace.

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