The Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam supported a law that would allow a woman to kill her unborn baby up until his or her (not “its”) birth and thereafter if the result of that birth did not meet the personhood guidelines of the mother.
Considering number 1: there is almost no example of a woman’s physical health being in danger that would necessitate killing the unborn baby. The goal of the doctor and his or her medical staff should do everything to save both mother and child. A doctor should not kill one to save the other.
Considering number 2: this is a slippery slope argument. Where is the line drawn on physical abnormality? What if a debilitating physical abnormality occurs well after a child’s birth? Should parents have the right to kill the child? Will DNA testing of an unborn baby be used to determine if there is some physical or mental abnormality that could be used to permit a late-term abortion
Considering number 3: “mental health” as defined by whom? “A woman can currently terminate a third-trimester pregnancy in Virginia if three physicians certify that the procedure is necessary to prevent her death or to stave off ‘substantial and irremediable’ harm to her mental or physical health.” The new law “would have made the procedure legal with only one physician’s approval and without the need to prove that the damaging health effects of a pregnancy were ‘substantial and irremediable.’ (The physician would’ve still needed to confirm that the woman’s physical or mental health was at risk.)”
This is another slippery slope loophole in the legislation. What we now have in the legislation in Virginia, New York, and several other states, is abortion on demand, both pre- and post-birth. The original 1973 Roe v. Wade decision said that “a state only has an interest in protecting prenatal life after it is viable (which in 1973 was between twenty-four and twenty-eight weeks).” But as we know, “the viability line is being pushed back in pregnancy (now it is between twenty and twenty-four weeks)” because of technological advances.
What’s true at the beginning of life is true at the end. Once the State determines that you and I are not viable, it means we’ll become Soylent Green:
''Soylent Green Is People''
The viability argument is no longer used or needed. The new standard, in order to make it seem that the choice is a medical decision, is a pregnancy that would impair the physical or mental health of the mother.
Consider the following:
The concept of “health,” as defined by the Supreme Court in Doe v. Bolton, includes all medical, psychological, social, familial, and economic factors which might potentially inspire a decision to procure an abortion. As such, “health” abortion is indistinguishable from elective abortion. Thus, until a more narrow definition of “health” is obtained, it may not be possible to limit effectively the number of abortions performed.1
After viability the mother’s life or health (which presumably is to be defined very broadly indeed, so as to include what many might regard as the mother’s convenience…) must, as a matter of constitutional law, take precedence over … the fetus’s life…2
What happens if the State determines that you and I are impairing the health of the nation? It’s already happening. Conservatives are being shut out of the free expression of ideas that go against the Leftist status quo.
The following was written in 1991, which shows that these new pro-death abortion laws have been a long time in the making:
It is safe to say, therefore, that in the first six months of pregnancy a woman can have an abortion for no reason, but in the last three months she can have it for any reason. This is abortion-on-demand. Those who defend abortion rights do not deny this disturbing fact.3
Writing in 1986 in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Justice John Paul Stevens let the cat out of the bag when he declared that even “the nine-month-gestated, fully sentient fetus on the eve of birth” is not yet a human being. He doesn’t offer a basis for this claim. He’s a Supreme Court Justice. He doesn’t have to. Just by asserting it as true makes it law.
Given the redefinition of mental health today, a woman can get an abortion by claiming that being a mother is an invasion of her “safe space.”
Consider Vermont’s new abortion law H-0057 that “would remove all practical abortion regulations, establishing the ‘fundamental right’ to the procedure without restriction while completely eradicating any consideration for an unborn child’s viability. The bill declares:
Every individual has the fundamental right to choose or refuse contraception or sterilization.
Every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry a pregnancy to term, give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.
A fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus shall not have independent rights under Vermont law. (The Blaze)
Once an “any reason abortion law” is passed, an unborn baby does not exist. An unborn “thing” has no personhood rights. This means that a pregnant woman who is beaten and has a miscarriage cannot bring a suit against her perpetrator because her “product of conception” has no legal personhood standing.
What the lesson? The Left has always been about abortion of all kinds, including aborting all contrary opinions. Where has the GOP been on this issue? “We’re all about being fiscal conservatives, not social conservatives.” The chickens have come home to roost in their empty heads.
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