Courageous people take courageous action. I applaud South Dakota for being the first state to stand up for women and the unborn in the battle to put an end to the culture of death.
I have no doubt that the history books in the future will reference two points when discussing abortion in America.
1) It was an absolute holocaust, casually ignored by the masses. Future generations will be bewildered that most people stood by and did nothing. They will be further dumbstruck that so many supported this horrific act.
2) It devastated the lives of more women, men and their families than any terrorist act could ever hope to accomplish. As more women come forward with post-abortion syndrome, the truth is slowly coming out... as the truth always does.
South Dakota's abortion ban makes providing an abortion for a woman a felony, except where the life of the woman is at stake. Since that accounts for a percent of a percent, that means all abortion will be illegal in the state.
With this measure, we are certain to see Roe v. Wade revisited by the Supreme Court of our land. Only then will we see if the Justices are prepared to do the right thing and abolish this nonsensical "right to privacy" provision which has caused vast devastation.
Sanity restored to America? We can only hope...
It's Del.icio.us!
Furl It!
February 25, 2006 06:37 PM
Yeah, I long for the days of knittingneedles, women bleeding to death or succumbing to infections myself. Those were the days!
Ciao, Haakon
February 25, 2006 11:38 PM
Here's an idea, Haakon. It is it one that I really think is worthy of your consideration. How about not attempting to end the life of the baby at all? Imagine that... actually allowing the baby to live. Then there will be no concern for using knitting needles for anything other than knitting.
March 1, 2006 03:26 PM
Time for a reality check, Joel. An awful lot of the women getting abortions are poor, often minorities. They often have neither the resources, the education nor the inclination to provide their unborn child with appropriate pre-natal care, and this neglect doesn't end at birth.
I read once about a couple who were so concerned about abortion that they visited the local clinic and accosted a young woman approaching the clinic. She was interested in getting information about an abortion,and they offered an alternative - they'd work with her during her pregnancy to ensure that prenatal care guidelines were followed, and would adopt her child when born.
Thankfully, she accepted their offer. Yeah, it's apocryphal, but there are a LOT of good people in this nation for whom such an approach makes sense.
What will we do with those women, pregnant with unwanted children, who aren't fortunate enough to meet such benefactors? Entrust them to the tender mercies of a government bureaucracy? And once their children are born?
The answer isn't so much to prohibit behavior as it is to educate, but of course that takes a lot more effort, and perhaps money as well.
I'll go with the Clintons on this one -I'm looking foward to an America where abortion is legal, safe and rare.
March 1, 2006 05:50 PM
Dale, your points are good. But you miss one very neglected point that is finally surfacing.
Abortion hurts women. It is not a solution, it is a band-aid, and a very poor one at that. Years of abortion is revealing that the emotional damage done by abortion is way beyond what we first imagined.
Women are beginning to speak up out of their shame and find healing from overwhelming emotional pain that follows them wherever they go. Studies show that it can take as much as 15-20 years before some women realize how incredibly devastated their lives have become as a result of their "choice".
As more do so, we will continue to see a shift in this way of thinking.
I recommend that you do some reading at Silent No More and Safehaven to begin understanding that this issue entails far more than "choice" or the life of the child who has no choice.
March 3, 2006 12:38 PM
Hi All.
This is a very complicated issue.
I was debating it with a friend about a month ago and my friend said "One good point of all this John is that it is a true joy when I meet the children who were going to be aborted and they thank me for counseling with one or both of their parents years back.
He said that made him feel as though he made the right choice in how he spent his time!
Onward and upward!
JED