Posted on January 30,
2019
New York’s Nobodies
“Not Me” pro-aborts strike again
by
Daniel
Clark
We’re often told, by people one might assume are
authorities on the subject, that “nobody is pro-abortion.” Got that?
Nobody! Oh, there may be people who are in favor of
“choice,” or “reproductive freedom,” or some other benign ethereal concept to
which the physical dismemberment and killing of tiny human children is
incidental, but “pro-abortion”? Nah.
Mind you, that makes the more than 60 million legal
abortions that have been done in our country a little hard to explain. How can it be possible that nobody is “pro”
them? Is that ghostly “Not Me” character
from The Family Circus responsible
for them all? If so, there must be more
than one of him. Our federal courts and
state legislatures must be teeming with Not Mes,
setting the legal groundwork for all those other Not Mes
who actually perform the procedure.
In
spite of nobody being pro-abortion, New York has passed a law to keep abortion
legal in that state in the event that Roe
v. Wade is overturned. Gov. Andrew
Cuomo celebrated his signing the bill by having pink lights turned on at the
World Trade Center and other landmarks around the state. Not that he was celebrating abortion or
anything. He’s just another well-meaning
champion of women’s reproductive healthy-choicey-body-thingey rights.
One thing’s for sure.
Nobody is in favor of abortion post-viability. That’s why the New York law allows abortions
through 24 weeks, even though preemies have been born earlier than that and
survived. Still, we can rest assured
that nobody is for third-trimester abortions.
Okay, so Cuomo’s law even allows abortions beyond 24 weeks, right up to
birth, but his doing this is just mimicking Roe’s
provision, legalizing such abortions only to protect a woman’s life or health.
In truth, no viable baby ever needs to be killed to
preserve its mother’s life. Even if
continuing the pregnancy would be problematic, there’s no need to kill the baby
before extracting it from the womb.
Whether that it is necessary for the mother’s health is a different
question, at least as the courts understand that word. On the same day the Supreme Court decided Roe, it also handed down the Doe v. Bolton decision, in which it
defined “health” in the context of abortion as encompassing “all factors –
physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age – relevant to
the well-being of the patient.” That
basically legalizes abortion as long as the mother thinks she would feel better
about having a dead baby than a live one.
The first time Bill Clinton vetoed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, he introduced
five women whose third-trimester abortions were supposedly necessary to
preserve their health. It turned out
that in every case, the “health” concern was possible fetal abnormalities, and
not anything that had been a physical threat to the woman. One must consider, however, that giving birth
to a disabled child could prove injurious to one’s emotional health. This must be what defenders of the procedure
meant during congressional hearings, when their most tiresome talking point was
“these are not perfect Gerber babies,” unsubtly suggesting that they should die
for that reason. Not that anybody’s for
that kind of thing.
Absolutely
nobody is in favor of killing babies once they’re born, so the fact that New
York has repealed its protections for children who have survived abortion
attempts must be due to the recognition that it’s no longer necessary, since
the federal Born Alive Infants Protection
Act was signed by George W. Bush in 2002.
After all, if there’s anything a bunch of cosmopolitan, liberal
Democrats can’t stand, it’s an unnecessary, redundant law cluttering the place
up.
Nobody, but
nobody is for going back to the days of the “back-alley butchers.” There must be a reasonable explanation, then,
why New York has dropped its requirement that abortions be performed by
licensed physicians, but instead is now letting them be done by physician’s
assistants, nurse practitioners and midwives.
It can’t simply be that the legislators of that state want more
abortions, and are frustrated by the shortage of licensed doctors willing to do
them, because we all know that nobody
wants more abortions.
Come to think of it, nobody wants anything that’s in
New York’s new abortion law. How
peculiar, then, that the state legislature should have passed it, and Gov.
Cuomo signed it, let alone that they find it a cause for celebration.
While they were at it, they might as well have passed
another law, officially changing their state motto to “Oops.”
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