When rapper Joe Budden talks about his frustration with the power that the woman has to determine whether or not to abort, we should ask, "Who gave her this power over life and death?"

The answer in our secular society is the U.S. Supreme Court.

When the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that abortion is a private matter, that there is no public standard relevant to the question of a woman destroying her own fetus, they officially cut the umbilical, so to speak, that connected the private individual to any prevailing moral or social standards associated with the consequences of sexual behavior.

It removed any residual sense that, as a society, we see any sacred component to sexual behavior or its natural consequences.

There was a time when our sense of the sacred defined the framework through which we related to life and death. Now that the sacred has been banished from our public life, we leave these matters to the whim of any child from any broken home.

Today seven of 10 black babies are born to unwed mothers. Those seven babies will, in all likelihood, grow up in an environment where, whether they look at home, in their neighborhood, on the TV they watch, in the music they hear, or to those who set the laws of our land, the message they'll get is whatever they feel like doing is OK. If a young woman wants to sleep around, that's up to her. And if she wants to abort the result of her liaison, also her call.

No wonder Joe Budden is so frustrated. If it doesn't make any difference if she gives in to his desires, if they are both equally not responsible, so why shouldn't they both be equally not responsible, or responsible, for what to do with the pregnancy?

How can we call Joe Budden anti-social in a society with no social standards?