Posted on 09/04/2021 4:30:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Like everyone under the age of 50, I was born after Roe v. Wade. It's worth reflecting: If our parents knew what we'd experience in life and the mistakes we would make, would they have decided not to have had us? Terrorist attacks. A global pandemic. And all our imperfections we can probably easily list -- I sure can for myself. Would they have said: Let's spare her and us? But what if they had lived in a culture long used to legal abortion that is getting bolder about demanding assurance of security and lack of imperfections?
That's some of why I'm grateful at the recent restrictions on abortion recently passed in Texas.
Abortion has been so successful in America because of euphemisms and pressures. We look away. We don't let young women see what is happening, see what abortion really is. Women are told -- sometimes by their mothers -- that they are too young to have children, that their lives will be miserable and never amount to anything if they have a child before they're ready.
Shouldn't we be embracing motherhood with grateful expectation for the beauty to come? How have we become blinded to the enchantment of creation? Whatever the circumstances of a pregnancy, we are a part of creation, creating with God, even if unintentionally.
Life is a gift, and when we cease to see it that way and protect it, we are doing something evil. I don't agree with everything in the new Texas law, but life beyond the badly decided Roe v. Wade decision is going to look like this -- states deciding for themselves what to do.
In a state like New York, where I live, it will take a miracle -- we're the state where a symbol of resurrection, the Freedom Tower, which was built in the wake of the attack that took town the World Trade Center, was used by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo to celebrate abortion expansion. Most Big Apple residents were not appalled by that, but it's interesting to reflect upon now that Cuomo had to leave office after sexual harassment allegations. Men who don't respect women, who use them for their own selfish pleasure, need abortion. Of course, Cuomo was enthusiastic about abortion; it exists to let men use and abuse women.
Someday the #MeToo movement and feminism should lock arms with John Paul II's "Theology of the Body" and realize that women have the most incredible power in the world -- the ability to give birth to another human being. A culture that respects that is a healthy one with tremendous promise, because it chooses to be life-giving; it wants to nurture and be nurtured by the genius of women. And we want men to respect that and want to protect that! So, thank you, all you pro-life men.
Some of the responses to the Texas law going into effect suggested a new stage in this human-rights struggle. The usual language of a supposed "war on women" was gone, because now it's conventional to say "pregnant people." I'm sorry, but women get pregnant. And the science showing us that unborn life is obviously life is bringing some of the eugenic roots of abortion out in the open. One tweet I saw recently making the case that fewer abortions would mean more Down syndrome people was slightly horrifying. If fewer mothers are pressured into killing their unborn children with Down syndrome, that would be civilizational progress, not decline. But many seem intent on the former, not the latter.
Thank goodness Texas has shown states the positive way forward.
God bless Texas. Doing the heavy lifting.
God doesn't make crap.
......well, except for a few mistakes like Biden, Kamala, Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, Milley, Austin, Karl Marx, Hitler, Stalin, Taliban, Obama, Maxine, Blinken, Hillary, Bill, Cuomo, Epstein and, oh well, you get the picture.
But no, we can't have that, can we???
Only the insane or leftists would murder someone to save them, but I am redundant.
Yep, it’s just those darn women having sex outside of marriage….all by themselves!
” realize that women have the most incredible power in the world — the ability to give birth to another human being.” Even this is a twisted feminist view of life. Every month every woman fails without the help of a man in the effort to create another person. If we instead see that in the act of a man and woman coming together in the desire for each other allows God to use their love to create another person to protect, provide and nurture: then maybe we will see abortion as a self destructive and selfish act.
Abortion , minus rape, is caused by not practicing safe sex.
Wonder why no one links the push for easy access to contraceptives and getting pregnant.
Have the child and put that person up for adoption rather than murder it because you could t practice safe sex
If Texas was serious they would have made it a criminal offense instead of outsourcing it to civil cases that will be immediately thrown out of court.
Can't have that either, can we?
Can someone please tell me why women won’t take the pill? They are free. Why do they prefer to be put out and have their uterus scraped? Just cannot understand why.
One tweet I saw recently making the case that fewer abortions would mean more Down syndrome people was slightly horrifying.
More and more I’m thinking that we would be much better off if the world was populated with only Down kids. And dogs.
Ok, gotta be a wiseguy huh? Fine, men and women. How’s that?!?! :-)
Tucker Carlson mentioned that Jeffrey Toobin, the Chief Masturbationist Correspondent at CNN had an extramarital Affair and impregnated the Daughter of Jeff Greenfield.
He tried to bully her into getting an Abortion that she didn’t want to get. She refused and had his Love Child.
The Chief Masturbationist Correspondent for CNN Jeffrey Toobin was very upset about the Texas Abortion Ruling.
Abortion is a guy’s Get out of Child Support Free Card, especially for Older Men who tap young foolish Women.
Even BJ Clinton put it where there was no risk of Pregnancy.
Tucker Carlson mentioned that Jeffrey Toobin, the Chief Masturbationist Correspondent at CNN had an extramarital Affair and impregnated the Daughter of Jeff Greenfield.
He tried to bully her into getting an Abortion that she didn’t want to get. She refused and had his Love Child.
The Chief Masturbationist Correspondent for CNN Jeffrey Toobin was very upset about the Texas Abortion Ruling.
Abortion is a guy’s Get out of Child Support Free Card, especially for Older Men who tap young foolish Women.
Even BJ Clinton put it where there was no risk of Pregnancy.
Abortion and taking prayer out of school, all came out of Texas.
If Texas had, the Supreme Court would have tossed it. This is an end run around Roe v Wade caused by the Feds striking down Texas’ ending taxpayer funded abortions.
If Texas is to be forced to fund abortions, then Texas will make it so that the abortions they are forced to fund are as few in number as possible and others will be extremely expensive.
The Supreme Court didn't rule against it because of a technicality. They may well overturn this eventually. In any case most of the suits filed under this law will be tossed due to lack of standing. And since Texas has a loser pays law then people who do file may wind up on the hook for defendant's costs.
If Texas is to be forced to fund abortions, then Texas will make it so that the abortions they are forced to fund are as few in number as possible and others will be extremely expensive.
Texas funds abortions through Medicare for rape, incest, and life of the mother and that's it. This law doesn't change that.
The Mississippi law before the Supreme Court is the best chance to end Roe v. Wade. All this Texas law is is a distraction.
I assume pro-aborts have legal arguments against criminal offenses, which was why Texas wrote the act that way.
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