Thursday, July 4, 2013

The Texas abortion debate

When the Progressives in Texas say the Republicans just want to reduce the number of abortions by passing the Texas Abortion bill, they're absolutely right. It's not stealth, nor is it pulling the wool over anyone's eyes. That's what the pro life movement wants: fewer abortions.

The fact is taking the life of an innocent child at any time is wrong; but, by passing this bill and adding the ability to take one at or after twenty weeks is as sick and degenerate as any civil society can practice.

There's a new Texas State Democrat star--Wendy Davis, who filibustered and succeeded in keeping this bill from becoming law. That made her the martyr du jour--the Progressives love their martyrs--and got her on Meet the Press on Sunday. Her pontificating on women's rights  as they relate to this abortion bill--the one she singlehandedly kept from affecting every last woman on earth--makes my teeth hurt.

Unfortunately for her, and womanhood in general, Governor Perry of Texas reintroduced the bill for another try. That same day, to be sure, the opposition reaffirmed their hatred for the bill and came out in force to protest. This time, I understand that they shouted "Hail Satan!" in response to the pro life/Christian groups who stood across the street counter protesting by singing that rabble rousing hit, "Amazing Grace."

Hail Satan?

So, how has this Roe v Wade argument gone from a sixteen-week limit on abortions to the twenty weeks that is being fought for today? I must have been asleep. I admit, I've let my guard down on the social issues we've been facing, mostly because I hate to deal with them...and, I've been lazy.

I've read the Texas bill. No where within does it take away the so-called mother's rights, nor does it block a mother's ability to have the abortion. In fact, it simply calls for procedures to be instituted which enhances the subject's safety. The pro abortion people say it closes down some clinics because of those safety guidelines. Again, it's no secret that the authors of this bill and the people of Texas want fewer abortions.

But, something has changed in the public square and state houses in this country and that is, in fact, this: there is a strident, heartless tone in these fights.

People who used to think that killing a baby outside the womb was a barbarity now are actually lined up to repeat the drum beat of these murderous procedures in the name of a woman's right to her own body. Of course, at time of conception or at twenty weeks, a woman's right to her own body ceases as that small being's begins. Those underlying precepts are the arguments at which all conversation begins and ends from the perspective of the pro life community. Unfortunately, empirically speaking, the more secular one is, the more pro abortion one tends to be. In talking or arguing with someone like this, withstanding insults about your ability to "understand" science and biology* and establishing brain power and intellectual parity with the conversant can take time and patience. If one is lucky, and the debate gets rolling, the poor pro abortion side eventually gets left in the dust with his empty sack of sadness and the dark reality of death.

In our new world of  what I have come to call "Everything's Wrong," we Christians must stand for something. I might as well begin with this.

Thanks for the read.


*Inronically, it was through my college microbiology and chemistry classes that I understood that life begins at conception.




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