The Texas abortion battle
As expected, the Texas House has passed legislation banning abortions after 20 weeks and placing other restrictions on the operation of abortion clinics, restrictions that supporters say are intended to protect women’s health and will not close down many or even any clinics, and which opponents say will close almost all the clinics in the state. I know that it would surprise me very much if the latter turned out to be true.
Typically, the left considers those who have been fighting the bill heroes (or heroines, or is that word no longer PC?). Kirsten Powers (who when last I checked, was still a liberal, although one who sometimes goes against the usual liberal stands) disagrees:
In addition to the limit on late-term abortions, the Texas legislature sought to pass regulations on abortion clinics similar to what was passed in Pennsylvania in 2011 after the Gosnell horror. The New York Times warned that the Texas bill “could lead to the closing of most of Texas’s 42 abortion clinics.” That sounds familiar. In 2011, the Pennsylvania ACLU claimed a post-Gosnell bill “would effectively close most and maybe all of the independent abortion clinics in Pennsylvania.” Last month, a Pennsylvania news site reported that “several” abortion clinics have closed, which isn’t quite the Armageddon the abortion-rights movement predicted.
So no, I don’t stand with Wendy [Davis]. Nor do most women, as it turns out. According to a June National Journal poll, 50 percent of women support, and 43 percent oppose, a ban on abortion after 20 weeks, except in cases of rape and incest.
One can assume I am also not the only woman in America who is really tiring of the Wendys of the world claiming to represent “women’s rights” in their quest to mainstream a medical procedure””elective late-term abortion””that most of the civilized world finds barbaric and abhorrent. In many European countries, you can’t get an abortion past 12 weeks, except in narrow circumstances.
When Roe v Wade was handed down, it legalized first trimester abortions. Now, as one might expect, that’s not even remotely good enough for the pro-abortion forces. In the years since Roe the expectation and demands have changed, and any backtracking (such as that in Texas) in which things that have come to be considered rights are taken away is fought tooth and nail by abortion proponents, who want ever-expanding access to the practice.
[NOTE: As it stands now—before it has gone to the Senate, where it is also likely to be passed—the bill’s ban on post-20-week abortions does not contain an exception for rape and incest.]
Making money off of killing life should have no restrictions. So sayeth the Left. After all, what’s the worth of a slave’s child anyways compared to the fat bank accounts of those born to select?
The less slaves there are clamoring for health care and other limited resources, the more Gaia will be purified of rotten human corruption and the more scarce resources can be husbanded and rationed out to those that need it.
Specifically, the rich that can afford it.
If there are no restrictions up to 20 weeks, why is there a need for a rape and incest exception? Surely the pregnant woman knows she was raped (or incested?) sometime during those first 20 weeks.
It’s something that the Gosnell case did not give the pro-abortion crowd pause. Their cause is nothing to celebrate.
95% of the “protestors” (supporters of Davis) the media are showing at the state capital are UT college students. No surprise, they’re in Austin for summer classes and they’re bored, and a lot of them are from out of state.
Anyway I mention that because some of the liberal media are genuinely shocked to see liberals protesting in Texas, which shows surprising ignorance. If you point your finger at anybody in Austin, you’re probably pointing at a democrat 80% of the time.
Abortion is killing.
Can we ever call the pro-abortionists what they are? Pro-killing?
I think I will refer to them from now on as Pro Baby Killers.
By the way: There are, give or take a few million, about 50m Americans who were killed before they were born in the last 40 years. One out of three I think. Can you imagine the vibrancy and energy in this Country now if they had not been killed?
Our GDP would be better by a third, the Social Security problem would simply NOT be a problem, and a host of our ills would be solved. There would be no question of our social and civilization demise.
Let’s be brutally honest and quit with the euphemisms and deceptions: Culturally, we are in the process of a suicide attempt.
One of the great mysteries in history is that Civilizations do this from time to time – they kill themselves. We are in line to be one of those historical statistics.
Baby steps. At least we are wobbling in the right direction, if ever so slowly.
The issue underlying elective abortion is women and men’s ability for self-moderating, responsible behavior. It is because underage girls and boys are generally incapable of this behavior that society has deemed, rightly, to constrain their liberty. Perhaps it is time to review the criteria for distinguishing between children and adults. A significant minority of the latter are quite immature.
In twenty years, the “War on Women” will be over whether a mother, upon seeing her newborn for the first time, can have it incinerated if she doesn’t like the shape of its ears or size of its nose.
In forty years, the “War on Women” will be over whether a mother, upon seeing her baby’s disappointing IQ test results, can have it incinerated.
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