A Personal Matter... Concerning a Mother, her Child, and her Doctor

When the modern abortion movement first began, a century ago, Planned Parenthood founder and hero Margaret Sanger was quite clear on her belief in the theory of eugenics. She wanted to reduce the numbers of undesirable people in America (you know, all those “other” races and ethnicities), and abortion was the easiest way that sprung to mind. But it didn’t catch on; it was too extreme.

So, when a renewed effort for legalization of abortion really kicked into high gear in the 1960s, it was couched in a mantle of compassion instead.

“Since people will get abortions anyway,” we were told, “the horse is out of that barn, you know… we need to legalize the practice, so that it can be safe, legal, and rare.”

This was the promise: that legalization would protect the mother from the back alley abortionist, that legalization would defend her from the infections and shoddy workmanship and inherent malpractice of so-called doctors who work on the other side of the law.

Since society has already given up on saving the baby, they told us, let’s at least save the mother. It may not be full compassion, whole-hearted compassion, but at least, this distasteful choice is born in compassion, of a sort. At least the Left’s intentions were good.

So the people of Texas accepted that theory, and attempted to apply it. In 2013, the state of Texas set rules for abortion clinics, requiring that they meet the same standards of equipment and sanitation that any other place calling itself a clinic would have to meet. Nothing extreme, nothing burdensome. Nothing that you don’t have to do if you want to call your operation a 24-hour emergency care facility, or a suburban outpatient center, or a plastic surgeon’s office, doing facelifts and tummy tucks. Just normal cleanliness and waste disposal processes, normal record-keeping and reporting requirements, and admission privileges at nearby hospitals.

This last one is particularly noteworthy. You know how your regular doctor is sometimes late for an appointment because he’s held up a bit at the hospital, performing or assisting on a surgery or a birth? That’s because you want your doctor to have a relationship with the hospital. He practices there too, as well as in his office or clinic. We need that relationship, because if anything goes wrong at the clinic, you need the doctor to be able to get the patient into the right hands at the hospital quickly.

And, in case you haven’t heard… the abortion procedure happens to be one of those things that has complications sometimes. Complications that can and do prove fatal.

The people of Texas were just taking the abortion supporters at their word, assuming that they included the “safe” part of “safe, legal and rare” on purpose. Since the practice obviously isn’t safe for the child, it just had to be the mother they were concerned about. Right?

Hence the Texas rule. There has to be some noticeable difference between the back-alley abortion mills of the past and the legally-established abortion providers of the present.

In short, if you want to run an abortion clinic, it has to be a proper clinic. Fair enough.

Whole Women’s Health vs. Hellerstedt, Commissioner, Texas Dept of State Health Services

The Center for Reproductive Rights immediately challenged the Texas law, and fought it all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court voted five to three to strike down the law on Monday, June 27, 2016, in an opinion written by Justice Stephen Breyer… and rooted in the fancy that there’s some Constitutional “right” to abortions somewhere in the “emanations and penumbras” of a document that was written in 1787, but was hidden so well as to be first noticed by William O. Douglas in 1965, nearly two centuries later.

We see now that when it helped their case, the Left maintained that abortion should be “safe, legal and rare”… but when it was no longer necessary, they decided that the “legal” part trumps the other two desires. In their world, you can’t make safety a condition on making it legal, after all. And hey, if safety requirements cause it to be rarer too, well then, they’ll be happy to throw “rarity” under the bus as well. Keeping abortion legal is what counts.

Looking beyond this case, we must consider that many states impose reasonable conditions on abortion: parental notification if the mother is a minor, a 72-hour waiting period to think about such a momentous occasion, a requirement to lay out other options such as adoption… things like that. This 5-3 decision has excited the Left in ways we haven’t seen since 2009 when they assumed control of House, Senate and White House all at once again. The Left is now motivated to be aggressive in attacking all other safety-related and judgment-related restrictions. We should expect many more challenges, each more aggressive than the last, in the effort to make abortion every bit as much a part of American life as going to school, driving a car, or watching TV.

America is therefore left with many quandaries, as we go forward from here. We see that the Supreme Court has fallen even further than perhaps we had feared… We see that state after state must now expect to shell out billions they don’t have for legal fights, as massive challenges are bound to spring up… And we now know that all the Left’s protestations for good, safe healthcare for America’s troubled young mothers’ was actually just poppycock, all along.

And on a philosophical level, perhaps it tells us something else, if we think hard about it.

We have been told that “Abortion should be between a woman and her doctor”… but now the Left has admitted they don’t care if the abortionist is really a legitimate doctor at all, and they’ve cheered at seeing the high court strip that requirement away from the law.

We have thought of the abortion debate as involving, principally, three parties; the mother, the child, and the doctor. The Left gave up on the child’s life years ago… and now we see that they’re willing to toss any rule that would protect the mother’s life too.

Well, there are an awful lot of abortionists in this multi-billion dollar industry, and they write a lot of campaign checks to Democratic Party candidates, from your local state rep all the way up to the man or woman who seeks the White House.

The Supreme Court – and the abortion movement – have finally made it clear. Between the mother, the child, and the “doctor”… we now know whose side the Left is on, and who they’re willing to sacrifice on that altar of theirs, in order to keep the gravy train of (often taxpayer-funded) donations flowing in their direction.

John F. Di Leo is an international trade lecturer, actor, and writer. His columns are found regularly in Illinois Review.

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The nation that has killed 60 million babies is under judgement from YHWH. He is done with the United States of America.

We have been under judgement ever since the 1962 School Prayer ruling. The first official Muslim Brotherhood front organization founded in the U.S. was the Muslim Students Association (MSA), established on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois in 1964. The Muslim Brotherhood is a type of the Assyrian that YHWH used to bring judgement on the 10 tribes that made up Israel. Al Qaeda is an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Their 9/11 attack was a perfect fulfillment of Isaiah 9:8-13.

Since the 1973 Roe v. Wade things have really gotten worse. Since then we have never won a war, before then we never lost one. With Obama we finally got Isaiah 3:4-5 “I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and every one by his neighbor; The child will be insolent toward the elder and the base to the honorable.”

All this moral decay was codified by Judges, just as the moral decay in Sodom and Gomorrah was, according to the Jewish sages, was codified by Judges. That puts us as “in the days of Lot” (Luke 17:28-37). The “great sign in the heavens” from Revelation 12:1-2 actually occurs on September 23-24, 2017. See the image at: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_1y_hLqVXf4/maxresdefault.jpg

As for Donald Trump, I view him as a type of Samson, whom YHWH raised up to bring down the Temple of Dagon on the Philistines. Read Judges 13-16 and then look at the characteristics Donald Trump shares with Samson: Doesn’t drink, ever; has really wild hair; is really harsh if you treat him badly or unfairly; ran around with a lot of foreign women.

Now look at Donald Trump’s slogan: “Make America Great Again”. Alexis de Tocqueville said: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” Donald Trump knows that in a country overrun with Philistines one can not campaign on “Make America Good Again”. However, if you look at what he says he will do, how offended he is by people lying about him, how offended he is with dirty tricks, how he hates the corruption in American government, etc. you know that he is trying to do is make America good again. So Donald Trump is bringing people out of the shadows, so to speak, and giving them hope that things can be better. This puts them out in the world where the Holy Spirit can bring believers into contact with those who are to be saved. So that is the spiritual aspect of the Trump campaign.

On the Bible Prophecy side, how is YHWH going to convince the Iranians that 2017 would be about the last time they, with their allies, can wipe out the United States and attack Israel to wipe it off the map?

How about we elect Donald Trump and he starts to make the American Military so strong that no one will want to mess with us? How about if he starts to root out the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Government? In fact, the threat of having Donald Trump in the Whitehouse may well trigger the attack that is described in Ezekiel 38:10-13, which YHWH does not stop, so that the attack in Ezekiel 38:14-23, which YHWH will stop can take place. Then the End will come.

When the world gets to these critical points, there isn’t anything one can do to change the course set by YHWH for the world. It is much easier if you focus on that narrow way YHWH has for you to do as your part in His magnificent Word.

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