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The Resurgence Of America’s Conscience
April 12, 2010
State legislatures are just saying no to unrestricted abortion on demand
Barack Obama may just turn out to be the best thing going for the pro-life movement. The hardhearted zealotry of the Obama administration’s pursuit of completely unrestricted abortion on demand has focused national attention on the stark realities of abortion as never before. And the more the American people know about abortion, the more they stop and think about abortion, the more repulsed they become by abortion.
There was a line in the movie The Usual Suspects that went “the greatest trick the devil ever played was to make us think he didn’t exist”. And so it has been with the benign face the hard core abortion lobby used to mask the truth about abortion over the last 37 years. Cloaking abortion as a privacy, political or women’s rights issue diverted attention from the true issue- the innate barbarity of taking an infant’s life, by some of the most gruesome procedures imaginable. The greatest human rights issue of our time.
Carefully crafted euphemisms – “choice”, “family planning” and “reproductive rights” – were incorporated into our lexicon in order to ease the collective conscience of our nation over what was taking place each day in the abortion mills of America.
Typical of this relentless campaign to deceive was National Public Radio’s memo issued to staff members last month. On air NPR employees are now required to refer to pro-choice proponents as “abortion rights advocates”, while pro-life groups are to be described as “abortion rights opponents”. No mention is made of the most fundamental of all rights, the right to life.
But as Barack Obama dropped all pretense of moderation on abortion upon assuming office, the carefully constructed mask began to shred, and so began a resurgence of America’s collective conscience. This resurgence of America’s conscience on abortion is especially evidenced by new laws being enacted in Nebraska and Missouri.
Protecting women and the unborn
On Monday the Nebraska legislature passed a bill requiring women seeking abortions to take physical examinations and undergo psychological testing. The psychological exams will include an evaluation of “situational factors” such as whether a woman is being pressured into procuring an abortion.
Nebraska is the first state to pass such legislation designed to protect women from many of the common physical and emotional after effects of undergoing an abortion.
Nebraska is also likely to pass another first in the nation bill outlawing the abortion of fetuses 20 weeks and older. The legislation is based upon conclusive evidence that babies not surprisingly experience excruciating pain during common abortion procedures- dismemberment by vacuum devices or surgical shears, piercing through the back of the skull or injection with poisons.
States can just says no to abortion funding under Obamacare
On March 22, the day after Obamacare was foisted on America, Missouri rapidly passed a bill which just says no to state funding of abortions as mandated in the federal “healthcare reform” bill. The president secured passage of the bill by issuing an Executive Order that theoretically prohibits the use of federal funds to pay for abortions.
The Executive Order was promptly labeled a farce by both republican and democratic members of congress. As pointed out by Missouri State Senator Scott Rupp:
“The executive order that was supposed to fix this is not worth the paper it’s printed on. The Supreme Court has said that executive order cannot trump law, and the law says that it has to be covered. States have to enact this unless they do want to subsidize abortion. We need to enact this opt-out provision to continue the longstanding tradition in Missouri that we do not use public funds to subsidize abortion coverage.”
Pro-life activists in the other 49 states need to start lobbying their state legislatures for prompt passage of similar bills.
The MO bill also imposes additional restrictions on health-insurance abortion coverage, limiting abortion insurance coverage to optional riders, or a health insurance plan to which someone can opt in.
On March 30, the Missouri House passed a bill designed to protect teenage girls from predatory adult “boyfriends”. The bill requires abortion providers to notify prosecutors anytime a girl younger than 18 seeks an abortion, irregardless of whether the abortion is actually preformed. This legislation is clearly in response to the pro-life activist group Live Action’s series of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood “counselors” covering up cases of statutory rape.
The bill also makes it a crime to coerce a woman into undergoing an abortion, and requires abortion providers to provide women seeking abortions with fuller disclosure on the state of the fetus’ development and the risks of undergoing abortion.
The bill still needs to pass in the MO Senate.
“Common ground”- as in scorched earth policy
The pro-abortion lobby, headed by chief activist President Obama, sanctimoniously harps that both sides of the abortion issue need to “find common ground” and work to “reduce the number of abortions”. But each and every common sense/decency restriction achieved by the pro-life community over the last 37 years has been ruthlessly opposed in the courts.
Parental notification for teenage girls seeking abortions. Forty eight hour waiting periods to reconsider the consequences of taking the life of your child. Requiring women considering abortion to be shown an ultra sound of the living human being in their wombs, so they can fully understand the magnitude of such a decision.
There will, without doubt, be immediate challenges to Nebraska’s law designed to safeguard women planning to undergo an abortion with routine physical exams and psychological evaluations. There will also be opposition to the law protecting the life of a child sufficiently developed to experience the pain of dismemberment, decapitation or poison injections.
The abortion lobby will file suit to invalidate Missouri’s laws to safeguard teenage girls from adult predators (and Planned Parenthood for that matter) and prevent a woman from being pressured into terminating the life of her child.
There is, of course, no fathomable reason for anyone of conscience to oppose such legislation, and America is beginning to realize it.
President Obama pledged his benefactors in Abortion Incorporated that the pro-life movement would never turn back the clock on Roe v Wade.
But in focusing America’s attention on the barbaric realties of abortion during his first year in office, Mr Obama has reawakened the collective conscience of the American people. And suddenly the cries of Yes We Can are taking on a whole new meaning.
Category: Abortion In America, Right To Life vs The Obama Administration
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