Texas Takes on the Cult of Infanticide
"..the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man."
CORRECTION: I READ THE LAW INCORRECTLY. I INITALLY INTERERETED THE HIGHLIGHTED PARAGRAPH WRONGLY AND NOW NEED TO ISSUES THIS CORRECTION. THERE IS NO ALLOWANCE FOR RAPE OR INCEST. THE POINT IS THAT THIS LAW DOES NOT “BAN” ABORTION , PER SE, IT ALLOWS CIVIL ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN AGAINST THE PROVIDER.
I REGRET THE ERROR.
Nothing gets the left’s pantaloons in a bunch more than when rational people try to pass laws that infringe upon a woman’s alleged “right” to an abortion, never mind that this is a “right” made from whole cloth.
The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was manufactured to discover this new “right” because the majority wanted abortion to be legal, that is one of the reasons why the legal environment surrounding abortion is so screwed up.
And the Texas “heartbeat” law has brought out the hysterical abortionists on the left once again with claims ranging from the ushering in of an age of “Handmaid’s Tale” sexual repression to children being forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term.
Neither of which is true, of course, but the truth never gets in the way of the liars on the left. These are the same people who want to restrict actual first and second amendment rights through “common sense” controls because free speech is violence (it isn’t) and they want to stop mass shootings and firearms deaths (34,000 a year vs. the 330,000 abortions Planned Parenthood performs every year).
The bill does not “outlaw” abortion, nor does it force a rape victim to carry a baby to term. What it does do is follow the same model the left embraces when they induce companies in the private sector (the Internet and social media companies) to squelch and censor free speech and vest economic harm on conservatives by de-platforming them. Citizens can sue abortion providers if they ignore the detection of a heartbeat past six weeks or simply do not perform an examination to find out if there is one.
As to the rape accusation, the Texas law states:
"Notwithstanding any other law, a civil action under this section may not be brought by a person who impregnated the abortion patient through an act of rape, sexual assault, incest, or any other act prohibited by Sections 22.011, 22.021, or 25.02, Penal Code."
With the amount of sex education in the public schools and all the available methods to prevent conception these days, it would seem an "unwanted" pregnancy should be rare. But sex “education” is often little more than promotion and glorification of casual sex and abortion is seen as a legitimate form of elective (and sometimes selective) birth control. Society is now populated by people, many of whom are on the consequence free/abortions are groovy sex train, that have lived their entire lives during a time when an altered form of human biology is considered the “norm”. The fact is that the altered form of human roles is not the norm because until the advent of the “pill” in 1960 and its common usage in the ensuing decades, the act of sex was understood to be a procreative and consequential, not merely an act of responsibility free sensual pleasure. It had a purpose other than recreation.
Back in 2014, blogger and journalist Stacy McCain wrote:
“After four decades of rhetoric about “choice,” and two decades of lectures about “safe sex,” younger Americans apparently assume that it is normal for sex to be sterile, and that for sex to produce its natural result (pregnancy) is something weird.
As [Rush] Limbaugh said, people now think of fertility as a “sickness,” a “disease” that requires medical treatment. So deeply ingrained has this view become among some young people that a sex educator in Massachusetts found herself accused of being “unintentionally heteronormative,” which made her realize that her college students had ‘never thought about sex in terms of biology or reproduction’!”
It isn’t sexism or misogyny to wonder why some women (and leftist men) are in such a hurry to murder a child. The obsession with killing a fetus ranks up there with the practices of infanticide in ancient Greece, Rome, Sparta, and China. Han Fei Tzu, a Chinese philosopher in the 3rd century BC wrote “As to children, a father and mother when they produce a boy congratulate one another, but when they produce a girl, they put it to death.”
The fact is that woman’s body is a woman’s body and consistent with Lockean philosophy, is the exclusive property of that woman, but while a fetus is naturally part of a woman’s body, it is not a woman’s body. It is not a tumor or a “cluster of cells”. At the moment of conception [fertilization], an individual's unique set of DNA is created, a human signature that never existed before and will never be repeated. That fetus is as human as the mother and distinctly a new human.
If “my body, my choice” has any legitimacy at all, it is a credo that must be applied to all things, including the decision to have sexual intercourse, otherwise it is meaningless.
Since abortion proponents seem to think a fetus is not life, I wondered how “life” is defined. Assuming NASA’s search for life on other planets as a baseline, I checked in to see how they define it. Here’s what they say:
“How to define “life” is a sweeping question that affects whole branches of biology, biochemistry, genetics, and ultimately the search for life elsewhere in the universe.
Comparing the semantic task to the ancient Hindu story of identifying an elephant by having each of six blind men touch only the tail, the trunk, or the leg, what answer a biologist might give can differ dramatically from the answer given by a theoretical physicist.
However, some initial agreement is possible. Living things tend to be complex and highly organized. They have the ability to take in energy from the environment and transform it for growth and reproduction. Organisms tend toward homeostasis: an equilibrium of parameters that define their internal environment. Living creatures respond, and their stimulation fosters a reaction-like motion, recoil, and in advanced forms, learning. Life is reproductive, as some kind of copying is needed for evolution to take hold through a population’s mutation and natural selection. To grow and develop, living creatures need foremost to be consumers, since growth includes changing biomass, creating new individuals, and the shedding of waste.
To qualify as a living thing, a creature must meet some variation for all these criteria. For example, a crystal can grow, reach equilibrium, and even move in response to stimuli, but lacks what commonly would be thought of as a biological nervous system.”
As Frank Sinatra would say, “That’s life.”
The fact remains that unless the physical health of the mother is threatened, abortion is not "health care".
If the pro-abortion cabal can associate a human fetus with a tumor or a “cluster of cells”, they can treat the ending of a human life as a “women’s health care issue”. The real discrimination and denial here is being perpetrated against the women and men who believe life begins at conception, not at some point in gestation as determined by “science”.
I recall a scene in Texas from July of 2013 when pro-life protesters sang “Amazing Grace” and the pro-abortion protesters were caught on video chanting “Hail, Satan!”
Hubert Humphrey, a liberal in a time before liberals became radical communists, said:
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
Mahatma Ghandi noted:
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.”
There is no more defenseless creature than a pre-born baby.
Ann Coulter once described abortion as the holy sacrament of the liberal religion. The ire toward Texas is not because Texas is denying health care to women; it is because Texas has committed the unpardonable sin of opposing abortion in all its forms.