Ted Flint
With the recent passage in New York of the misleadingly named Reproductive Health Act, Democrats in Blue states are going all out in their efforts to enforce what they see as a woman’s legal right to end the life of their unborn child. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is perceptive enough to know that with the recent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the nation’s High Court, Roe v.Wade’s days may be numbered.
It’s interesting to note that it took the abortion issue for the Governor to discover federalism.
Toppling Roe may not be necessary. Lawmakers in 12 states have proposed what they call “heartbeat bills,” which if enacted would effectively ban all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin recently signed into law one of these measures, which was to take effect immediately. However, that same day, a federal judge temporarily blocked the law. Indeed, supporters of abortion say the constitutionality of these heartbeat bills is dubious at best because it contradicts federal law.
In deep blue Minnesota, where it is legal for a woman to end the life of her unborn baby for any reason and at any time during her pregnancy, there are bills in both houses of the state legislature that would ban abortions at about 22 weeks after the last menstrual cycle. According to the Minnesota Concerned Citizens for Life website, (HF 1312 and SF 1609) (P-CUCPA) would prohibit abortion after 20 weeks post-fertilization when scientific evidence shows that unborn children can feel pain. The P-CUCPA recently passed on a voice vote in a state Senate committee. The bill includes an exception to allow abortion to protect the life of the mother or to prevent “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”
Again from the MCCL website:
“A large body of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral evidence indicates that unborn children can experience pain at least by 20 weeks after fertilization. Abortions at this stage usually involve the dilation and evacuation (D & E) method, which dismembers the unborn child and removes her from the womb piece by piece.” According to MCCL Legislative Director Andrea Rau, between 2013-2017, Minnesota has experienced a nearly 500 percent spike in abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization.
In New York the anti-infanticide movement faces an uphill battle. Governor Cuomo, who has long supported expanding abortion rights up to and including infanticide, used the 46th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade to sign into law the Reproductive Health Act, which permits all abortions up until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Beyond that point all that is required of a healthcare provider is that he make a “reasonable and good-faith professional judgement” that “there is an absence of fetal viability or that abortion is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” Alexandra DeSanctis writes in National Review that “health” is defined in Roe’s companion case Doe vs. Bolton as “all factors: physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age, relevant to the well-being of the patient.” It is no accident that the word “health” is so broadly defined. The RHA also removes abortion from the state’s criminal code. Essentially, thanks to the RHA, a woman will now be able to terminate her pregnancy right up until the moment of birth.
But the Governor didn’t stop there. He has indicated that he wants expansive abortion protections similar to the ones contained in the RHA written into the It’s a natural problem that will occur at some point in their lifetime, will viagra cheap online have to face the challenge of erectile dysfunction (ED). A dosage of 100mg of viagra 100mg sales is asked to initiate with 100mg first and gradually proceeding above that if required. An active ingredient present in Kamagra is Sildenafil citrate that is invented by the British scientist and marketed by the Pfizer of USA based company with the name of see address free cialis without prescription. You can go with online service to buy Kamagra tablets or kamagra levitra prices soft tablets. state constitution, and he hopes to have abortion rights on the ballot next year. The abortion industry continues to thrive in the Empire State. Katie Yoder, writing for National Review Online (NRO), recently broke down the numbers:
“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent Abortion Surveillance report, for the year 2015, New York City performed 544 abortions for every 1,000 live births. That means roughly one in three unborn babies are aborted in the city. That also means the New York City’s abortion rate makes up more than half of the city’s birth rate. With the state’s voluntarily reported data, the CDC found that 63,646 abortions occurred in the New York City during 2015, with 32.8 abortions per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. New York — with the city and state data combined — saw a lower number in 2015. As a whole, New York performed 93,096 abortions total, with 23.1 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. It counted 392 abortions per 1,000 live births.”
Abortion is especially devastating to the Black Community. According to the CDC abortion is much more prevalent in the African-American Community than it is among any other group. While black women make up only six percent of the U.S. population, they account for 35 percent of abortions reported. According to the Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than five times as likely as white women to have an abortion. For many young black women abortion has become a de facto method of birth control.
It is impossible to ignore the racist roots of the abortion movement. According to LifeSiteNews, Planned Parenthood founder and eugenics advocate Margaret Sanger started “The Negro Project” in 1939 to thwart the population growth of the poor and minorities, or, as Sanger put it, to discourage “the defective and diseased elements of humanity” from their “reckless and irresponsible swarming and spawning.”
There has been a harmful sea change in how our culture views human life. As predicted by those in the pro-life community, it has, indeed, led to infanticide, as well as profiteering by abortion mills from the selling of human parts. The abortion industry and its supporters frame the issue as one in which women should be left free to make decisions that affect their lives and their bodies. They are willfully ignoring the slide into infanticide, and the disregard for the sanctity of human life in general.
This article was written by Ted Flint, a veteran broadcaster who has worked at some of the most influential news-talk stations in upstate New York. He currently works as a Producer in the NY State Assembly Office of Radio/Television where he interviews members of the Assembly Republican Conference about issues that affect the lives of New York State’s residents. For interviews or other inquiries, you may reach Ted via email at tdflint@yahoo.com
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