In follow-on to my previous blog posting, the U.S. Supreme
Court (SCOTUS) has become ‘an arm’ of the abortion industry … rather than an
unbiased source of justice and constitutional arbiter. The Court’s recent 5-3 decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt – striking
down a 2013 Texas law requiring common-sense health and safety regulations for
abortion clinics – is a prime example. There
is no doubt women’s health has been sacrificed at the altar of abortion.
Veterinary clinics, hair salons and public swimming pools
have more regulatory oversight than abortion clinics.
The women’s groups and politicians who have claimed all
these years to be pushing for “women’s health” have now been exposed to care
nothing about the human beings involved in abortion, but only about the “right”
to have an abortion on demand.
In Whole Women’s Health, the SCOTUS’s majority completely snubbed
state legislative efforts to impose standard health regulations on abortion
clinics; in essence, deeming itself “the country’s ex-officio medical board.” In his dissent, Justice Clarence Thomas
pointed out that a majority of the SCOTUS are willing “to bend the rules when
any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition to abortion, is at
issue.” Sadly, the SCOTUS’s majority
mindset of “abortion no matter what,” is at the impetus of many pro-abortion
initiatives … at the sacrifice of true women’s health.
Up until 2010, abortion clinics had very limited regulatory
oversight, with less than half of the states in the country even having a
single regulation on the books. But in
2010, a horrific incident in Pennsylvania brought to light the importance of
such laws. The investigation into the
clinic of Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell revealed that women
contracted sexually transmitted diseases from the facility’s unsanitary
equipment; infanticide occurred; women suffered infertility as a result of
botched procedures; and two of Gosnell’s patients died from neglect and
malpractice after obtaining an abortion. One woman, Karnamaya Mongar, died in Gosnell’s
clinic, when the abortion being performed on her went wrong, and emergency personnel
could not reach her in time because they could not fit a gurney down the
hallway and out the emergency access.
With this backdrop, the Texas bill HB 2, like 22 other
states, sought to assure women’s safety by treating abortion like any other surgical
procedure. It required clinics to have
the same level of regulations that any other outpatient surgical facilities
had, and that abortion doctors would have admitting privileges to hospitals.
For years, abortion advocates have equated greater access to
abortion with improving women’s health; but in doing so have advocated for sub-standard
health regulations … whether it be ultrasound laws (that many states have
sought to employ) or abortion clinic safety regulations. This is a dis-service to women and true
healthcare. Whether it’s coming from SCOTUS
or Planned Parenthood (taxpayer funded) or abortion activists, the “bending of
the rules” for abortion is not only disingenuous, but it also dangerously
sacrifices the health of women upon the altar of the “right to an abortion.”
The mantra “safe, legal and rare” that was coined by Bill
Clinton when he ran for president and used by many other political candidates (since)
has been blown out of the water. With
this SCOTUS decision, it is clear that advocates of abortion don’t care if it
is “safe” and they no longer want it to be “rare.” They simply want abortion to be “legal” at all
costs, at all times. The child and the
woman are secondary.
Rev. Dr.
Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain
(Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor,
Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel
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