Abortion Is Not Healthcare

The other week, the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with an Ohio business that challenged Obamacare’s birth control mandate. The business owners — two brothers who own and operate Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics in Sidney, OH — argued that providing such coverage would violate their Catholic beliefs.  The appeals court panel ruled in their favor (via LifeNews.com): “The burden on religious exercise does not occur at the point of contraceptive purchase; instead, it occurs when a company’s owners fill the basket of goods and services that constitute a healthcare plan,” Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote on behalf of the court.  “They can either abide by the sacred tenets of their faith, pay a penalty of over $14 million and cripple the companies they have spent a lifetime building, or they become complicit in a grave moral wrong,” Brown wrote.

 

The Obama Administration said that the requirement is necessary to protect women’s health and abortion rights.  The judges were unconvinced that forcing companies to violate their religious rights was appropriate.  This ruling is just the latest in a series of court cases challenging Obamacare’s birth control mandate, which many legal analysts expect will ultimately be resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

Beyond the judicial branch of government, the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to put an end to late-term abortions following graphic testimony on the excruciating pain the unborn feel during the procedure.  The testimonies on the horrors of late-term abortion before members of Congress were both powerful and disturbing.

 

Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist described the brutal and deadly procedure in great detail, showing Congress the instruments he would use in a procedure.  Dr. Maureen Condic from the University of Utah also testified, detailing how far along unborn babies already are weeks before the proposed ban, reporting that unborn babies have the capacity to feel pain much earlier (at 8-10 weeks).

 

But even more condemning was the recent events of the ‘Dr.’ Kermit Gosnell case, a powerful testimony in and of itself.  America was horrified when they finally got a glimpse into the true horrors of the abortion industry when Gosnell was convicted for doing the same thing that other abortionists do on a routine basis – The only difference … a few seconds.  Gosnell waited until babies were delivered before he killed them, instead of “legally” doing it inside the womb.  But these babies, inside or out, were clearly viable, fully-formed babies.

 

After the horrors of the Gosnell case, you'd think that ending late-term abortions of fully developed unborn babies would be a no-brainer … especially for a group that worked so hard to distance itself from him. Not for Nancy Pelosi and her cronies.  Pelosi even went so far to defend it by declaring the so-called “right” to a late-term abortion as “sacred ground.”

 

Of course, pro-abortion members of Congress have tried to distance themselves from Gosnell's atrocities; but their actions speak far louder than words, and their votes affirming abortion-on-demand for the full 9-months of pregnancy leave them bearing Gosnell's battle standard … paving the way for others to pick up where he left off.

 

The abortion lobby's bloodlust has shown that they'll take babies (born or unborn) at any point and for any reason.  And while the ban itself faces tough odds in the Senate controlled by Harry Reid, what is amazing is that all but six of the 190 Democrats and 6 Republicans voted to keep late term abortion legal.  Now the U.S. Senate will likely have to go on record on the same.

 

40-years after the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion and 54-million abortions later, the United States continues the debate between pro-life and pro-choice.  With an ever-increasing number of U.S. citizens opposed to abortion … now greater than 50% of the populace … the pro-abortion politicians will have to reconsider their stance if they’re thinking about re-election.

 

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel