http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/13/texas-senate-poised-to-vote-on-abortion-measure/
I'm thrilled with this victory, which although it does not achieve our final goal of banning abortions altogether, is a step in the right direction. I particularly like that it places large financial burdens (hopefully financially crippling) on current and future abortion centers. Given what the Gosnell trial and many other cases have brought to light recently, I don't think anyone with a shred of regard for the health and life of women should be able to protest something that obviously protects their health like this. But, then, maybe some activists are so in favor of abortion that they don't care how it's done- they just want people to be able to kill babies when convenient.
Interacting with the information in the link:
1. "House Bill 2 would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, allow abortions only in surgical centers, limit where and when women may take abortion-inducing pills and ban abortions after 20 weeks. Only five out of 42 existing abortion clinics meet the requirements to be a surgical center, and clinic owners say they can't afford to upgrade or relocate."
This all sounds quite reasonable to me. Being able to admit patients to a nearby hospital? Having a high standard for health protection in places where abortions do happen? Making sure women aren't just sent home to take abortion pills and left to deliver the dying baby into a toilet? Seems pretty downright reasonable. Makes you wonder why the "pro-women's rights" side is all in a huff. Probably because of the last sentence, but like I said earlier- you would THINK they'd be all for laws that protect women's health given how many rich opportunistic "doctors" have been running these operations to make easy cash while employing, for instance (in the case of Gosnell), a 15-year-old to apply anesthesia.
2. They introduced amendments to add exceptions for cases of rape and incest and to remove some of the more restrictive clauses, but Republicans dismissed all of the proposed changes.
Well, given that most of the bill has to do with the health standards in the facility performing the abortion, I really don't think it would matter what the source of the pregnancy is. Of course, logically it doesn't matter the source of the pregnancy in terms of the value of the human life growing in the womb either.
In the end, this is only a small victory. It does represent a trend in the right direction, though, and drawing the line back 4 weeks will mean that more babies will survive because more women will not have decided by the 20th week. Further, it brings important information to light, such as that babies feel pain at 20 weeks. One can hope and pray that this information will enter the minds of many pro-aborts and change their minds. (As a side note, I think it could be considered ironic that vegetarians are primarily liberal and argue that it's wrong to cause pain to animals- consider that some semi-vegetarians will eat fish because they don't feel pain- but many of them are completely fine with killing the pain-capable child within their bodies).
Further, I think this demonstrates a powerful new option for pro-lifers (though I'm sure it's not entirely new) - that is, that we can and should attack the economic foundation of abortion centers in very reasonable and important ways. Defunding Planned Parenthood is one way. Another way is to continue to raise and enforce the health standards and restrictions on clinics so that evil pseudo-doctors don't set these clinics up to make tons of money. After all, many pro-aborts have argued that by legalizing abortion they were just saving the health of women who were getting back-alley abortions before. You would THINK they'd want high standards of cleanliness and licensed people doing the work.
Maybe by hitting them in the wallet the clinics will fall one by one, making it so difficult to get an abortion that more women will choose to carry the baby and then offer him/her for adoption- an excellent option in all cases.
Further, I think this demonstrates a powerful new option for pro-lifers (though I'm sure it's not entirely new) - that is, that we can and should attack the economic foundation of abortion centers in very reasonable and important ways. Defunding Planned Parenthood is one way. Another way is to continue to raise and enforce the health standards and restrictions on clinics so that evil pseudo-doctors don't set these clinics up to make tons of money. After all, many pro-aborts have argued that by legalizing abortion they were just saving the health of women who were getting back-alley abortions before. You would THINK they'd want high standards of cleanliness and licensed people doing the work.
Maybe by hitting them in the wallet the clinics will fall one by one, making it so difficult to get an abortion that more women will choose to carry the baby and then offer him/her for adoption- an excellent option in all cases.
In the end this is God's battle, and our job as Christians is to be His tools on earth to save every child we can, and preach to the hearts and minds of the lost and pray that He will redeem them soon.
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