We don't get it, as we are told all too often, especially from the pro-abortion crowd. Or rather, the pro-choice crowd. They don't want to be known as pro-abortion, even if they are. As the man said, language is the Little Round Top in any debate, and he who holds that ground has the advantage. Which is why so many euphemisms must be used by the pro-abortion types.
So instead of pro-abortion, we get pro-choice. And "clinics" and "pregnancy services" and "women's health" and "abortion services." Abortion services?
Those who demand abortion-on-demand in each state have been winning in the courts lately and even in some legislatures. Earlier this year, the governor of New York lit up state landmarks with pink lights to celebrate the state's Reproductive Health Act, which would allow non-doctors to conduct abortions up to the mother's due date if the fetus isn't viable or if the mother's "health" is endangered.
The previous standard said a mother's life would have to be endangered. Before we ask what could be used to justify a health problem (weight gain? mental stress?) we should at least give thanks that lawmakers in New York are still allowing the word "mother" on occasion. We wouldn't be surprised if their next bloody law substitutes the word "carrier" in its stead.
A different state--this one farther south--was in the news this week for an opposite opinion about abortion. Instead of celebrating this culture of death in America, like it was some sort of holiday to be recognized with pretty lights and parades, the state of Alabama went in the other direction: a near-total ban on abortions. The opposition says the new law is unconstitutional, but that's sorta the whole point. Alabama lawmakers say they've done this with all the intentions of the law getting to the United States Supreme Court. So the Roberts court can weigh in on Roe.
The left in this country doesn't mind winning in court, but it can't stand to be challenged there.
Now, finally, to the part we don't get: Some headlines making the rounds.
Such as:
Lawmaker: A baby
in the womb is a person
That was an actual headline on CNN.com. It was near the top of the page on Wednesday afternoon. Imagine the copy editor who wrote that beaut. FLASH! A baby is a person! What can those hicks in Alabama be thinking?
Here was another headline from CNN:
Every life is precious,
senator says of near-ban
on abortion
In 2019, a state senator who says every life is precious is breaking news. That says a lot about America circa 2019, and nothing good.
From USA TODAY:
"Today is a dark day for women":
Planned Parenthood vows
to challenge Alabama abortion ban
The spokesman for Planned Parenthood--that mother of all euphemisms--didn't explain why today is such a dark day for all those girls in the womb who might one day grow to womanhood, if only given the chance. Instead, in most of the country, they are fair game for the abortionist any time before they make it into the light of day.
Remember the phrase, "Safe as a baby in its mother's womb"? It's not in much use these days. But before, say, 1973, it was a popular idiom, even among the kids.
Maybe it is an age issue. For some of us growing up in the old days, the abortionist wasn't somebody you'd want to know. And if you did know him, he probably didn't brag about his occupation. He was a doctor "in special practice."
Nowadays he goes on MSNBC to explain the ghastly process during dinner hour. In times past, he was lowest of the low, plying his trade at the expense of the least among us, ashamed to talk about his job in polite company. Today he's a celebrity booking gigs on cable.
And they wonder why lawmakers in states such as Alabama (and states even closer to home) revolt. Maybe because they find abortion revolting. And hope to challenge federal law again, once this thing wends its way through the courts.
The wheels of justice grind slow but exceedingly fine. But still slow. Much too slow for the 1.2 million children who likely will be aborted in the next couple of years. And, no, the vast majority won't be non-viable and their mothers won't be at risk. In modern America, abortion is just another form of birth control. It's become just the removal of an unwanted growth, like a wart.
If this is progress, God have mercy on us.
To the briefs!
Editorial on 05/16/2019