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Abortion into Infanticide

Ted Flint

With the recent passage in New York of the misleadingly named Reproductive Health Act, Democrats in Blue states are going all out in their efforts to enforce what they see as a woman’s legal right to end the life of their unborn child. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is perceptive enough to know that with the recent confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the nation’s High Court, Roe v.Wade’s days may be numbered.  

It’s interesting to note that it took the abortion issue for the Governor to discover federalism.

Toppling Roe may not be necessary. Lawmakers in 12 states have proposed what they call “heartbeat bills,” which if enacted would effectively ban all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin recently signed into law one of these measures, which was to take effect immediately. However, that same day, a federal judge temporarily blocked the law. Indeed, supporters of abortion say the constitutionality of these heartbeat bills is dubious at best because it contradicts federal law.

In deep blue Minnesota, where it is legal for a woman to end the life of her unborn baby for any reason and at any time during her pregnancy, there are bills in both houses of the state legislature that would ban abortions at about 22 weeks after the last menstrual cycle.  According to the Minnesota Concerned Citizens for Life website, (HF 1312 and SF 1609) (P-CUCPA) would prohibit abortion after 20 weeks post-fertilization when scientific evidence shows that unborn children can feel pain. The P-CUCPA recently passed on a voice vote in a state Senate committee. The bill includes an exception to allow abortion to protect the life of the mother or to prevent “substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.”

Again from the MCCL website:

“A large body of anatomical, physiological, and behavioral evidence indicates that unborn children can experience pain at least by 20 weeks after fertilization. Abortions at this stage usually involve the dilation and evacuation (D & E) method, which dismembers the unborn child and removes her from the womb piece by piece.” According to MCCL Legislative Director Andrea Rau, between 2013-2017, Minnesota has experienced a nearly 500 percent spike in abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization.

In New York the anti-infanticide movement faces an uphill battle. Governor Cuomo, who has long supported expanding abortion rights up to and including infanticide, used the 46th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade to sign into law the Reproductive Health Act, which permits all abortions up until 24 weeks of pregnancy.  Beyond that point all that is required of a healthcare provider is that he make a “reasonable and good-faith professional judgement” that “there is an absence of fetal viability or that abortion is “necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.” Alexandra DeSanctis writes in National Review that “health” is defined in Roe’s companion case Doe vs. Bolton as “all factors: physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman’s age, relevant to the well-being of the patient.” It is no accident that the word “health” is so broadly defined. The RHA also removes abortion from the state’s criminal code. Essentially, thanks to the RHA, a woman will now be able to terminate her pregnancy right up until the moment of birth.

 But the Governor didn’t stop there. He has indicated that he wants expansive abortion protections similar to the ones contained in the RHA written into the It’s a natural problem that will occur at some point in their lifetime, will viagra cheap online have to face the challenge of erectile dysfunction (ED). A dosage of 100mg of viagra 100mg sales is asked to initiate with 100mg first and gradually proceeding above that if required. An active ingredient present in Kamagra is Sildenafil citrate that is invented by the British scientist and marketed by the Pfizer of USA based company with the name of see address free cialis without prescription. You can go with online service to buy Kamagra tablets or kamagra levitra prices soft tablets. state constitution, and he hopes to have abortion rights on the ballot next year. The abortion industry continues to thrive in the Empire State. Katie Yoder, writing for National Review Online (NRO), recently broke down the numbers:

“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) most recent Abortion Surveillance report, for the year 2015, New York City performed 544 abortions for every 1,000 live births. That means roughly one in three unborn babies are aborted in the city. That also means the New York City’s abortion rate makes up more than half of the city’s birth rate. With the state’s voluntarily reported data, the CDC found that 63,646 abortions occurred in the New York City during 2015, with 32.8 abortions per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44. New York — with the city and state data combined — saw a lower number in 2015. As a whole, New York performed 93,096 abortions total, with 23.1 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age. It counted 392 abortions per 1,000 live births.”

Abortion is especially devastating to the Black Community. According to the CDC abortion is much more prevalent in the African-American Community than it is among any other group. While black women make up only six percent of the U.S. population, they account for 35 percent of abortions reported. According to the Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than five times as likely as white women to have an abortion. For many young black women abortion has become a de facto method of birth control.

It is impossible to ignore the racist roots of the abortion movement. According to LifeSiteNews, Planned Parenthood founder and eugenics advocate Margaret Sanger started “The Negro Project” in 1939 to thwart the population growth of the poor and minorities, or, as Sanger put it, to discourage “the defective and diseased elements of humanity” from their “reckless and irresponsible swarming and spawning.”

There has been a harmful sea change in how our culture views human life. As predicted by those in the pro-life community, it has, indeed, led to infanticide, as well as profiteering by abortion mills from the selling of human parts.  The abortion industry and its supporters frame the issue as one in which women should be left free to make decisions that affect their lives and their bodies. They are willfully ignoring the slide into infanticide, and the disregard for the sanctity of human life in general.

This article was written by Ted Flint, a veteran broadcaster who has worked at some of the most influential news-talk stations in upstate New York. He currently works as a Producer in the NY State Assembly Office of Radio/Television where he interviews members of the Assembly Republican Conference about issues that affect the lives of New York State’s residents.   For interviews or other inquiries, you may reach Ted via email at tdflint@yahoo.com 

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On February 7, this publication presented a legal analysis (by guest contributor retired judge John H. Wilson, who served on the New York State bench) of a new state law that allows abortion up to the moment of birth, essentially a legalization of infanticide. In response to the extraordinary debate this measure has produced, we now provide an analysis from another guest contributor, retired U.S. Army chaplain Don Zapsic, Jr.

New York State, which now has, in addition to a Democrat governor, a solid Democrat majority in both houses of its legislature, passed Senate Bill S2796, more commonly recognized as the cleverly labeled, Reproductive Health Act or RHA, which shockingly allows abortion right up until the actual moment before birth.  

Several interests gained from the measure:  

  • Planned Parenthood for expanding their profit margins.
  • Closet racists who decimate minority populations through the sanctioning of abortion on demand. In 2012, African-American abortions in New York City alone totaled 31,328 versus 24,758 live births (CNSnews.com/Feb., 2014).  
  • Irresponsible males who will now have more time to pressure the women in their lives to abort away financial liabilities associated with unintended consequences of sexual exploitation.
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 By the way, hats off to whoever ultimately decided to tint the Freedom Tower pink. Great idea to highlight such a structure raised out of the ashes of Ground Zero to commemorate the deaths of thousands of innocents. Such an ironic turning of the tables!   

 To those who have designs on facilitating the untimely demise of the mentally challenged and elderly who consume disproportionate amounts of medical care and social services: You are one step closer to your goal. Yes, you have a dream!

I served as a U.S. Army chaplain:  to all members of the clergy who allow politics to hijack their ministry: May sleeping consciences lie along with congregations that follow you more than God.

 To any who may doubt the sincerity of my stated convictions, by all means, please do so. The passing of the ‘so-called’ Reproductive Health Act is neither about the physical and psychological well-being of the mother or the physical viability of the child. He or she always ends up dead in very barbaric fashion. RHA is simply a quantum leap to the next level of systematic infanticide. It is a legislative nightmare that almost defies description.

I respectfully submit the following:

The term “Planned Parenthood” is an oxymoron. Orchestrating the death of an unborn family member has precious little to do with planning and more to do with population control.  Racism as well as its cousin sexism are clearly forms of discrimination. Abortion on demand is not deeply concerned about why a child is terminated even if it is based on something as disturbing as wanting a boy instead of a little girl. Nor are the purveyors of abortion particularly troubled by any disproportionate impact upon those belonging to a lower socio-economic class. It is no coincidence that Planned Parenthood is so well represented in poorer neighborhoods.

A reckless and irresponsible male seeking to mate should not be producing any child that he is unable and/or unwilling to father into adulthood. Then there is the reference to the Freedom Tower which was intended to be a structural symbol of the triumph of the human spirit out of the ash heap. Not the triumph of the ash heap over the human spirit.

On playing God, no one has the right to delegate life-and-death authority over any innocent human being. Children are a gift and a loan from the Almighty. Only He, and He alone, determines when their time on earth is done. The RHA though legal, has no moral standing before the One who ultimately judges every living soul. To presume otherwise is not only arrogant, but also ignorant.

The remark about the mentally challenged and elderly in poor health is grounded in the sanctity of human life. The institutional devaluation and consequent degradation of any human being is a threat to all human beings. Death industry advocates realize that another hurdle has been cleared with the passing of the Reproductive Health Act. A bill designed to literally cut back the roster of those who impose the greatest financial burdens upon existing social programs.

My reference to the clergy is a tongue-in-cheek reference towards religious practitioners who use God as a punchline in the pulpit. Spiritually bankrupt themselves; they have way too much influence largely based upon their elevated status, higher education, and an uncanny ability to manufacture displays of piety when suiting their purposes. They are truly “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who advocate for abortion whenever expedient to do so.

Last but not least is the message to expectant mothers struggling with unwanted pregnancies. These vulnerable women and their unborn children require and deserve our love and support; not condemnation and judgment. Equally important, they need to understand that those who wish to sweep away the unborn from their bodies are not champions of women’s rights, but the worst sort of child abusers. They may have the legal right as conveyed by rogue actions of state government; however, there is no moral justification for their lethal activities.

Four days after the twin towers fell, I worked twelve-hour shifts at Ground Zero with the NY Army National Guard and was blessed to do so. The outpouring of love and devotion on the part of rescue and recovery teams along with a host of support personnel was a sight to behold.  They made incredible sacrifices just to provide closure to families who desperately needed confirmation that their loved ones had indeed passed. It was a defining moment just like the passing of the Reproductive Health Act is now a defining moment for New Yorkers. Don’t let the bill define you. Embrace your unborn; cherish your children; raise healthy families. God bless America. America bless God.       

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New York Chooses Death

We are pleased to present this guest editorial by the distinguished retired judge John H. Wilson

The State has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that abortion, like any other medical procedure, is performed under circumstances that insure maximum safety for the patient. This interest obviously extends at least to the performing physician and his staff, to the facilities involved, to the availability of after-care, and to adequate provision for any complication or emergency that might arise. The prevalence of high mortality rates at illegal “abortion mills” strengthens, rather than weakens, the State’s interest in regulating the conditions under which abortions are performed. Moreover, the risk to the woman increases as her pregnancy continues. Thus, the State retains a definite interest in protecting the woman’s own health and safety when an abortion is proposed at a late stage of pregnancy.

Roe v. Wade, 410 US 113, 150 (1973)

New York State has changed its law, broadening the right to abortion, while removing language from the Penal Law outlawing the killing of an unborn child more than 24 weeks old.   There is no denying that this alteration of New York State’s statutes represents a sharp change, and a new front in the on-going battle in this 45 year old war.

If there was any doubt that Governor Cuomo’s quick signature on the Orwellian-named “Reproductive Health Act” was to be taken as a jab at President Trump and conservatives, the NY Governor removed that doubt with his subsequent remarks;  “With the signing of this bill, we are sending a clear message that whatever happens in Washington, women in New York will always have the fundamental right to control their own body…it’s always been the point where the conservatives wave the flag, they want to roll back Roe v. Wade…”

Unfortunately, Governor Cuomo, like most Americans, clearly has not read Roe v. Wade, and has no idea what that case actually held.  If he had, he’d understand the radical departure his new law has taken from that intended by the US Supreme Court.

The Roe case famously found a right to abortion in the “penumbra” of the Bill of Rights, in particular the Ninth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.  The decision was the culmination of a series of cases which found individual rights in marriage, procreation and contraception, none of which is mentioned anywhere in the US Constitution.  However, as the quote published at the beginning of this article makes clear, these rights are not unbridled and unrestrained freedoms. In fact, when it comes to issues involving the health, safety and welfare of its citizens, the Supreme Court has consistently ruled that the state has an absolute right to regulate the exercise of these rights.

New York has done nothing less than abdicate its responsibility to regulate Abortions, and a review of the language of the “Reproductive Health Act” (RHA) will support this interpretation.

The US Supreme Court assumed that an abortion would be performed by a physician, in a medical facility, with “adequate provision for any complication or emergency that might arise.”  Yet, Section 2599-bb of the RHA now allows “a health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting within his or her lawful scope of practice” to perform the procedure. Under Title 8 of the Education law, this includes Physician Assistants, Specialist Assistants, Nurses, Midwifes, and may include such medical professionals as Pharmacists (who may be called upon to administer a drug that would cause an abortion to occur).  By limiting the law to health care practitioners acting “within his or her lawful scope of practice,” one can only assume Dentists, Optomologists, Chiropractors and Veterinarians are barred from performing abortions under this new law.

It remains unclear what “adequate provision for any complication or emergency” a patient can find in the office of a health care practitioner who is not a physician.

Further, under the RHA, the unspecified “health care provider” may “perform  an abortion  when, according  to the practitioner’s reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient’s case: the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy,  or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”

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The “or” in this language is crucial – under the new law, an abortion can occur within 24 weeks of conception regardless of whether the fetus is viable, and whether or not the abortion is necessary to save the mother’s life or health.  After 24 weeks, in what was always called the “third trimester,” there must be an absence of “fetal viability” OR (that crucial word again) the abortion protects the mother’s “life” OR “health.”

“Fetal viability” is defined as “the ability of a fetus to survive outside of the womb.”   Between 20 and 23 weeks, with extraordinary measures, babies have been able to survive outside the womb.  Thus, under the RHA, an “absence of fetal viability” after 24 weeks could only mean the fetus is deceased.

The last clause is the most important.  We understand the necessity of protecting the life of the mother.  But what about her health? Does this broad term include her mental health?

Herein lies the basis for the belief that the RHA provides for unlimited abortions up until the moment of birth – how broadly will a “health care provider” define the “health” of an expectant mother in determining the necessity for an abortion after 24 weeks?

More tragic, however, than this broadening of the law, is the evisceration of the Penal Law.  Under the RHA, the definition of Homicide no longer includes causing the death of an “unborn child with which a female has been pregnant for more than twenty-four weeks.”

Rosa Furneaux of Mother Jones celebrates this change in the law, believing it to be a effort to protect women who seek self abortion medication.   However, in fact, the more common use for this statute was to prosecute an individual who assaults a pregnant woman, and causes her to lose a viable baby she intended to carry to term.  

In 2015, in Colorado, a woman was arrested for stabbing a pregnant woman and removing her baby from her womb.  The child did not survive, but the mother did.  If this had happened in New York in 2018, the assailant could be prosecuted for Murder. However, in 2019, the charges would be Attempted Murder and/or Assault in the First Degree.  Both obviously carry lesser penalties than Murder.

In 2016, Torey Branch assaulted his then-pregnant girlfriend, Mia Jones, by repeatedly punching her in the stomach.  “The ambush happened after Jones repeatedly refused Branch’s attempts to schedule an abortion for her and then she told him she was going to tell his girlfriend about the baby.”  

Was this really the change the New York legislature was hoping for?  Or were they so intent on providing for legal late term abortions while spitting in the eyes of President Trump and conservatives, that they forgot about providing for the prosecution of a particularly heinous crime?

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