Posted on 06/29/2016 10:02:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued yet another politically driven leftist decision, this time over the contentious issue of abortion. The court explained that not only did the Constitution of the United States mandate that states not infringe upon the phantom right to abortion but that health regulations on abortion clinics in Texas had to be overturned if they made it less convenient for women to kill their babies at such clinics.
To this decision, "The Daily Show" had but one well-considered response: "Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling! Go knock someone up in Texas!"
The right reacted without outrage; even the left found the tweet sufficiently indiscreet to merit a bit of tut-tutting.
The left shouldn't have bothered. The left's old abortion position -- "safe, legal and rare" -- never made any logical sense. If abortion kills a human child, then it shouldn't be legal. If abortion kills a nonhuman, it shouldn't be rare. Nobody cares about whether polyp removals are rare. The left fully believes that abortion is merely another form of birth control. I saw this firsthand in 2012 at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Young men walked around wearing buttons reading "I LOVE PRO-CHOICE WOMEN."
Of course they do.
In fact, abortion as birth control is implicit in their new set of revisions to the Democratic Party platform. The latest version of the DNC document calls for revocation of all restrictions on abortion at the state and federal levels -- yes, all, including partial-birth abortion, the gruesome procedure in which late-term children are carved up in the womb. They want you to fund abortions, too, both at home and abroad.
That's not "safe, legal and rare." That's "let's kill as many babies as we want."
And Hillary Clinton agrees with all of this. On Monday, she tweeted: "This fight isn't over: The next president has to protect women's health. Women won't be 'punished' for exercising their basic rights." Babies are not a punishment; they're a gift. But Clinton believes babies are only a gift if the mother decides that she wants it. Otherwise the baby is merely a collection of cells.
Defining what constitutes life based on convenience is the height of evil. Slaveholders in the South did precisely that in the antebellum era, arguing that blacks living below the Mason-Dixon Line were property. What business was it of those nosey parkers in Boston, Massachusetts, what a plantation owner in South Carolina thought of his slaves? The Nazis did that to Jews; Jews were subhuman, and therefore unfit for human treatment. The Hutus did it to the Tutsis. ISIS does it to Yazidis. The essence of inhumanity lies in the purposeful dehumanization of other human beings.
That is what the Democratic Party does explicitly. Democrats only get embarrassed when someone on their own side is uncouth enough to admit it publicly.
Abortion rights trump all others.
“Rights”.
Right......
No wonder the Democrats are all for illegal immigration. They have killed millions of Black babies. To celebrate that is disgusting.
Just like Hamen in the Bible story of Esther, God is giving them plenty of room to hang themselves and make their hell hotter.
If the left had their way, there would be a taxpayer funded abortion clinic in every high school.
Despite the title, "When Abortion Fans Let the Truth Slip Out," Ben's article missed the most important truth that the abortion fanatics let slip. It is not that they want young women to think of abortion as a routine form of birth control--abortion mill clientele already think of abortion that way.
Rather, it is the admission that they do not consider abortion a medical procedure.
For years, abortion advocates have insisted that abortion is not only "medical care", but that it is the only medical care that any woman wants or needs. This court decision has put the lie to that. If abortion is a "medical procedure", then those who perform abortion should be subject to exactly the same regulatory standards as real physicians. If abortion is not a medical procedure, then there is no need to subject its practitioners to any kind of medical regulatory standard. The Supreme Court has just pronounced that abortion is not a medical procedure.
Heck, if I were a Texas lawmaker right now, I would pass a law requiring abortion mills to prominently post a warning that the mills are not medical facilities and therefore are not subject to any of the same regulations. (However, I hope that Texas disregards the court decision and subjects abortion mills to regulation anyway. The abortionists have already made clear that they will not cut into their profit margin to make the mills compliant with health and safety standards.)
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