I am thankful for my constitutional scholar hat, which I am wearing at this very moment. It is a magic hat, of course, because I am not a constitutional scholar. To make it work, I sprinkle a bit of common sense powder and a dash of logical thinking on the inside of it. Then when I put it on, …BAM!!!

For all of you front-end baby boomers, the answer is no. Common sense powder is not a hallucinogen, and no, I do not buy my logical thinking in a bottle imported from Mexico. I realize that many of today's social realities were conceived in that manner, and that our liberal politicians lost far too many brain cells during their period of enlightenment, otherwise known as attending college in the '60s.

Unfortunately, those were the brain cells that contained wisdom, passed down from parents, grandparents, and educators; not yet infected by the viral scourge of hedonism. Even in the poorest of communities, a fierce pride was maintained in the fight to provide for the family. Values and character were instilled in children by parents with as much urgency as the struggle to provide food for their bellies.

My last column was addressed to Fed Thompson, a candidate for the Republican nomination to run for President in 2008. I suggested that his desire to place the question of abortion in the hands of individual states was unwise, and that the result would be the perpetuation of abortion in a handful of liberal states.

Perhaps deluged is a bit strong, but I did receive a lot of mail from folks who wanted to inform me that the Constitution never mentions abortion, and thus, must be a state handled issue. A few discussed slavery, which was finally handled by amending the Constitution, and in turn made it a Federal issue.

Many advised me that Fred Thompson was correct to put the issue in the hands of the states. This would be a step in the right direction, they argued, and if the desire to make it a Federal issue was popular enough, we could campaign for a constitutional convention, to change the Constitution. That is how slavery was dealt with, and that is how abortion must be dealt with.

I quickly rummaged through my closet and dug out my magic constitutional scholar hat, and I put it on straight away. Instantly, the fog began to melt away, and I said out-loud for anyone to hear within earshot, "Now Wait a Minute!"

There are no problems that must be overcome before children can be saved from the abortionist's cold instruments of death. What has to be done is that we must rewind to the point in time before the issue was veiled in absurdity.

The reason slavery had to be corrected by constitutional amendment, was because slavery was codified into the Constitution, albeit barely. The sad fact of the matter is that slaves never were really anything but people, with God given inalienable rights. The fact that these people were caught up in such an evil establishment as the slave trade did not really change their humanity. It simply made them victims of an ignorant, self-aggrandizing aristocracy that thrived for hundreds of years. If we read the words of Jefferson and Washington, bemoaning the practice of owning slaves, even while personally owning hundreds, we can see evidence that a social conscience cannot stand the light of God given common sense, when that conscience is so utterly unsynchronized with goodness.

The issue of abortion provides an almost identical feeling of imbalance. Our innate awareness of good versus evil cannot be denied, and attempting to do so only serves to highlight the absurdity of what we collectively allow or accept.

Abortion must be ended with all due haste, and the idea that a handful of states should allow the evil to continue is absurd. This is no less urgent than was the abolition of slavery, and in fact it is even more urgent.

When a man is enslaved, his inalienable right to freedom and the pursuit of happiness has been violated. Yet, the slave can be set free, his rights restored, and he will be once again made whole.

This does not hold true for the human child that has been aborted. Once the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been interrupted, there can be no righting of the wrong. The child is dead and no one has the power to change anything. Continued...