Cathy Young should understand by now that the ideas in Brent Orrell’s piece on what pro-lifers’ actions should be to support women and children have about as much chance of happening as there is of Amy Coney Barrett devoting her life to supporting Planned Parenthood. There are entire states that couldn’t be bothered expanding the ACA tha…
Cathy Young should understand by now that the ideas in Brent Orrell’s piece on what pro-lifers’ actions should be to support women and children have about as much chance of happening as there is of Amy Coney Barrett devoting her life to supporting Planned Parenthood. There are entire states that couldn’t be bothered expanding the ACA that would have included maternal health benefits. What makes her think the so-called “pro-life” movement would suddenly start to care about life after birth now?
Whether a baby is “wanted” or not isn’t the point. Pro-lifers have no scientific proof that a zygote is a human being and insist that a sound in a tube inside a developing fetus is a “heartbeat” when the fetus physically has nothing that looks or acts like a heart yet. And that they use religious beliefs of the existence of a soul, and that a microscopic mass of cells that may or may not become a human being is a baby to force a woman to accept into her life the enormous, life-altering commitment to a pregnancy she doesn’t want and doesn’t have the financial means to support - quite apart from whatever happens after the baby is born. As to adopting - if that were such a wonderful, easy and certain choice, why are there thousands of children being traumatized within the child welfare system this very moment?
The last issue, although there are many other fallacies in Cathy’s abortion opinions, that I would like to address, is that late term abortion is not ever a “choice”, because it is a dangerous and complicated medical procedure that requires a hospital, a medical team and a doctor who, as a medical practitioner, is not allowed to do the procedure except under the most agonizing and particular circumstances that always involve the viability of the fetus and/or the life of the mother. Late term abortions are never done just because a woman “changes her mind”. To believe otherwise is simple wrong-headedness and a deliberate choice not to accept facts. That is unless she believes that if the choice is between the life of the mother and the life of the fetus it must always be for the life of the fetus. That dictate is religiously and theologically based in the belief that the baby has a soul that must be dedicated to a specific god to keep the baby’s soul from going to hell. And that is religion and has no place in the laws of the land. Unless Cathy believes everyone should be ruled by one particular religious belief. And if that is so, she should admit her bias.
Cathy Young should understand by now that the ideas in Brent Orrell’s piece on what pro-lifers’ actions should be to support women and children have about as much chance of happening as there is of Amy Coney Barrett devoting her life to supporting Planned Parenthood. There are entire states that couldn’t be bothered expanding the ACA that would have included maternal health benefits. What makes her think the so-called “pro-life” movement would suddenly start to care about life after birth now?
Whether a baby is “wanted” or not isn’t the point. Pro-lifers have no scientific proof that a zygote is a human being and insist that a sound in a tube inside a developing fetus is a “heartbeat” when the fetus physically has nothing that looks or acts like a heart yet. And that they use religious beliefs of the existence of a soul, and that a microscopic mass of cells that may or may not become a human being is a baby to force a woman to accept into her life the enormous, life-altering commitment to a pregnancy she doesn’t want and doesn’t have the financial means to support - quite apart from whatever happens after the baby is born. As to adopting - if that were such a wonderful, easy and certain choice, why are there thousands of children being traumatized within the child welfare system this very moment?
The last issue, although there are many other fallacies in Cathy’s abortion opinions, that I would like to address, is that late term abortion is not ever a “choice”, because it is a dangerous and complicated medical procedure that requires a hospital, a medical team and a doctor who, as a medical practitioner, is not allowed to do the procedure except under the most agonizing and particular circumstances that always involve the viability of the fetus and/or the life of the mother. Late term abortions are never done just because a woman “changes her mind”. To believe otherwise is simple wrong-headedness and a deliberate choice not to accept facts. That is unless she believes that if the choice is between the life of the mother and the life of the fetus it must always be for the life of the fetus. That dictate is religiously and theologically based in the belief that the baby has a soul that must be dedicated to a specific god to keep the baby’s soul from going to hell. And that is religion and has no place in the laws of the land. Unless Cathy believes everyone should be ruled by one particular religious belief. And if that is so, she should admit her bias.