Abortion VS Save Our Children

It must be confusing to aliens watching our planet as they scratch their heads, assuming that’s where their brains are, attempting to understand our value system. On the one hand we have the Save Our Children crowd; loudly proclaiming that our entire society is geared to promoting a safer environment, one that promises that our children will survive so that they can become couch potatoes of the first order. The other side, the darker side of society holds the abortion on demand crowd; curiously, they seem to be the same crowd, how is that?

Janet Elliott wrote an article which appeared in the Houston Chronicle today (linked via title bar) which asks “if physicians can be criminally charged for performing banned procedures” as pertain to late term abortions or abortions carried out on minors without a parent’s permission.

“State Affairs Chairman David Swinford, R-Amarillo, asked for the opinion, citing an analysis by a state prosecutors group that said murder prosecutions of doctors could be an "unintended consequence" of the law changes.”

“Unintended consequence”, now that’s an interesting combination of words. Maybe the doctor performing the abortion meant to stunt the child’s growth when he pierced it’s head with those forceps and the unintended consequence was that the baby died. Maybe the unintended consequence of the law changes means that all those abortions that were performed in the past and those which continue to be performed really are an abomination that cannot be justified in a civilized society.

Maybe unintended consequences should be treated as crimes in general and then go after the individual physicians who perform those abortions as assuredly as we would hunt down a monster who murdered one of our children by abducting that child on the way to school, mutilating that child, stuffing the remains in a plastic sack and tossing it in a dumpster.

If a robber enters a store with a pistol and it “accidentally goes off”, killing the clerk it’s called murder. “But I didn’t mean to kill him” is not an acceptable defense; the crime of murder was committed the moment the robbery began, regardless of the unintended consequences.

“Peggy Romberg, director of the Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas, said the issue needs to be resolved. "This could have a chilling effect on providers and could result in women not having the access they need at a crisis time in their life," she said.”

In case you don’t speak the same language, the Women’s Health and Family Planning Association translates into, “You Really Didn’t Do Anything Wrong, Pregnancies Happen and We Have a Doctor Who Will Take All Those Bad Feelings Away As If You Never Had Them Clinic”. The only reason they went with the shorter name was to save on the cost of printing stationary. They would have called it “Dr. Josef Mengele’s Abortion Barn”, but that has already been used and they wanted to avoid litigation.

Isn’t that one heck of a line, I mean, “chilling effect on providers”? That’s like saying that your new assisted living center will have Dr. Kevorkian on the board of directors. I suppose that might have a chilling effect on retirees checking in for an extended stay. How about that word, “providers”?; isn’t that like calling cousin Vinny and handing him an envelope stuffed with cash, “Hey, Vinny, can you handle this for me?” “Next week on the Sopranos Vinny puts Vito’s feet in cement and drops him in the bay.”

All this time the medical community has been calling abortion a “procedure”; no different than removing a wart or blemish. I’d like a tummy tuck please, just toss whatever you take off in the trash”, and “is that covered by my HMO?” Peggy has a commanding use of the language as she worried about the poor woman, the accomplice in murder; not the aborted child, , “…and could result in women not having access” means that their provider was convicted of murder and is now sitting in a cell on death row; yup, that might put a monkey wrench in the procedure. “. . .they need at a crisis time in their life” means that our society has accepted no responsibility for murder, calling it a procedure.

I have a better idea, remove an unwanted pimple from our midst; have a “provider” with a large pair of forceps pierce Peggy Romberg through the temples and drag her away screaming, after all, she’s just a mistake and we might all feel a little better afterwards. We promise not to hold the provider accountable for murder; same argument isn’t it?

Maybe then the aliens watching our civilization could figure it out; we sure haven’t got a clue. At least the aliens will figure out where Peggy Romberg’s brain is located; she was scratching her rear end each time she tried to come up with something to say.