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After forty years, the right to privacy and birth control is pretty well established, as well as being in that class of actions, that although deplorable to some, are inalienable to the extent that they cannot be prevented without destroying any personal rights whatsoever.

I believe that the conservative Supreme Court said something similar in its ruling in the Texas Sodomy laws a few years ago.

Trying to enforce an unenforceable law is one of the best ways to breed disdain for the government in the population. The Drug Laws are the prime example. You might think that the public moralists could have learned something from the Prohibition Debacle, but unfortunately that is not the case. We have to learn this lesson every generation.

Birth Control, Abortion, Adultery, Sodomy, Drugs, Suicide, Gambling, there are so many laws the government has no power to enforce, and very little power to punish after the fact. Most of them have something to do with sex or shortcuts to personal happiness.

The old blues song had it right. "All the money in the world spent on feeling good."

And you know, i used to sell National Review when i was a teenager, and i think it is getting more petty and strident as time goes on.

There is such a concept as liberty, and that implies making choices and accepting the consequences. The Supreme Court accepts that, has for years, you would think the Conservative press could too. If you look at the Roe v. Wade and Connecticut contraception decisions, the thrust is that there is not enough Federal power to monitor every womb in America.

If you can't control something, there is no sense in banning it, and hoping for the best.