Posted on 09/09/2015 7:31:47 AM PDT by Salman
Abortion rights activists have long cheered Barack Obama's presidency as a "historic victory for women's health." But the reality has been rather different. Since 2010, getting an abortion in America has become significantly harder.
States passed a record 205 abortion restrictions between 2011 and 2013, more than the entire 30 years prior. As a result, many abortion providers are closing down. One survey, from pro-life group Operation Rescue, estimates that 87 separate locations ceased to perform surgical abortions in 2013. These changes are a clear result of pro-life mobilization in the Obama era.
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There's a clear catalyst behind the pro-life movement's newfound mobilization: the Affordable Care Act. The law allows plans sold on the marketplaces to pay for abortions, a provision anti-abortion legislators lobbied hard against but ultimately lost.
State legislators, however, quickly took up the cause, and in the past five years, 25 states have moved to ban or limit abortion coverage in the Obamacare markets.
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Unintended consequences.
The fastest way to curtail this abysmal procedure is to de-license anyone who practices it and prosecute them if/when they are caught. On the positive side, women who are pregnant need help and encouragement in bringing forth the child. It is entirely antithetical to civil society to have practitioners of abortion in its midst who are free to kill at will. Advocates of abortion (and homosexuality for that matter) are not fit to hold public office.
The moment of truth is the moment that the DNA from the sperm unites with the DNA in the egg to form a unique combination that never existed in the past and will never again exist. This is only human and it has its own identity, if only in the form of unique DNA from that moment onward.
All of the ideology of “choice” is an attempt to convince people, mainly the woman whose egg it was, that this is not something worthy of protection let alone that has the right to be protected and nourished. All of “choice” is nothing but denial about the humanity of this yet-to-be-born human being. The very first casualty of this ideology is truth. Choice Advocates lied, babies died.
Having taught Confirmation classes for over 20 years now, I have noticed the tide has definitely turned pro-life in most teens minds in the last few years. I never get the “not for me but ok for her” excuse anymore. A simple sonogram helps them understand that we are talking about a baby’s life, not some lump of tissue. I see it as a glimmer of hope for the future.
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