Are State and Federal Governments Starting (at last) to Recognize Abortion as Criminal?

With most of the media focused on President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations, it’s quite possible that you may have missed some major developments at both the federal and state levels of government regarding the American holocaust.  

On December 1st, the House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Select Investigative Panel decided to refer the Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) to the Texas attorney general for criminal prosecution due to its selling of aborted baby parts.

In the summer of 2015, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) unveiled its undercover video investigation into Planned Parenthood’s (PP) scandal in trafficking of baby organs. At PPGC in Houston, Texas, the undercover actors found that employees were hiding their sale of fetal issue by using “accounting gimmicks.”  “The evidence that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast charged exorbitant amounts of taxpayer money in exchange for fetal specimens that it provided at nearly zero cost is overwhelming,” CMP President David  Daleiden said at the time … urging Texas leaders to send a message that Houston’s children are “not for sale.”

They got the message … and so did Congress.  After the Select Investigative Panel’s investigation, they felt compelled to refer PPGC for criminal prosecution.

Family Research Council President, Tony Perkins, believes the panel has taken the first concrete step to holding PP accountable for its grave actions.  “The panel’s recommendation that Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast be criminally prosecuted is the appropriate next step in bringing justice to bear on a group that clearly sees itself as above the law.  With criminal prosecution a growing possibility, the new Congress should once again use the reconciliation process to redirect taxpayer dollars away from Planned Parenthood,” Perkins urged.

The time to defund PP is at hand; and I urge the incoming Trump Administration to make it happen.  The 56-million unborn fellow Americans since the 1973 Roe v Wade U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision … that legalized abortion-on-demand … cry for justice.

It is further noteworthy, that the Ohio Senate passed a bill that will ban abortions once the baby’s heartbeat is detected.  The so-called ‘Heartbeat Bill’ passed in the Ohio House in 2015.  The measure, if signed into law, would stop the abortion of children whose heartbeat can be detected … which is at about eight weeks’ gestation.

The bill was added to House Bill 493, which addresses child abuse reporting.  It passed by a 21-10 margin during the senate’s lame-duck session.  The Ohio House must agree to amendments and specific language, and then the bill goes to Governor John Kasich’s desk.

Janet Folger Porter wrote, promoted, and campaigned relentlessly for the Ohio ‘Heartbeat Bill,’ which has inspired identical bills in Indiana, Alabama, North Dakota, and Arkansas. In 2003, Porter founded Faith2Action, an activist organization championing natural marriage, the family, and the sanctity of innocent human life.

Porter had called out numerous Ohio state senators for keeping the ‘Heartbeat Bill’ from getting to a vote.  Governor Kasich and Ohio legislators (including state Sen. Keith Faber and Majority Whip Larry Obhof) opposed the bill … despite claiming to be pro-life … because they said they feared that it would not survive a SCOTUS challenge.  Kasich’s and Faber’s opposition to the pro-life bill prompted citizens to dub the governor “a Pro-life Pretender.”  Porter, who was once a spokesperson for Gov. Kasich, split with Kasich over the ‘Heartbeat Bill.’  “You can’t block a bill like this and call yourself pro-life,” Porter told LifeSiteNews.  “These obstructionists are getting away with murder – literally – and we can’t let them go unopposed,” Porter said.

The times are changing; and in this case for the good!

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.

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

Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel