THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY

The Good:

• A lawsuit is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a key abortion decision relating to the “health” of the mother…meaning anything, even economic or social “health”.   This is the kind of tripe that has been imbedded in our body of laws for decades, since Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton.
• According to a recent Pew poll, 66% of Americans favor broad and increased restrictions on abortion.
• The issue of “partial birth abortion” is also going before the USSC this Fall.  Besides the abomination of it all, medical research finds that giving birth is safer than this procedure for the mother.
• Recent medical research finds that increasing the oxygen delivery to a comatose person can avoid the development of “persistent vegetative state”.
• In this, our American Republic, individual States are going in various and separate ways with regard to the abortion issue.  A national Constitutional amendment guaranteeing the rights of human life from the moment of conception is needed to replace Roe v Wade, a law based neither on jurisprudence nor on morality nor on science.  But if we cannot adopt a national Constitutional amendment, this State by State approach is to be preferred over Roe v Wade.
• Italy recently joined many other nations in prohibiting suits regarding “wrongful birth”.  At least it got that right.
• A recent study shows that education in abstinence for high school students delays the age of first sexual encounter, and reduces the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases.  WOW.  What a concept!

The Bad:

• A California labor group wants the AFL-CIO to endorse abortions.
• The Boston Globe recently opined that abortion of unwanted children is better than birth.  Here’s a choice: is this idiocy or depravity?
• The National Academy of Sciences finds that prior abortion is linked to premature birth problems and to problems of infertility.
• A new  “Human Rights Treaty” sponsored by the U.N. may include the rights to abortion and euthanasia.  This effort must be aborted.
• The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reports that the “Plan B” pills may work either by preventing fertilization or by interfering with implantation of the already fertilized ovum – an abortifacient.  It is also reported that such use promotes ectopic pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STD).

The Ugly:

• Some clinics are using tissue from babies killed in abortions for cosmetic surgery.  This should be a Scarlet Letter, visible to all.
• A Florida abortion business was closed recently when the police found that a baby born alive had been killed.

Good people, there is a lot of work to be done, especially in this political season.  Remember: “In a democracy, the people always get what they deserve”.

Peter Moore, PhD    George A. Sprecace, M.D., J.D.