The Camel’s Nose Was Never Going To Be Enough!!
Author: by Jack Bley, Vice President, Van Buren County RTL
When Proposition 3 was passed in Michigan a couple years ago, many of us suspected it would be a camel’s nose under our state’s once robust protective tent: a shelter for the lives of the unborn. We were assured, however, that certain medical and mental safeguards for the mom and the baby would not be changed.
We were assured—perhaps we were lied to—that the requirement for a parent’s consent for a minor child’s abortion would still be necessary. Rules regarding the safe maintenance and inspection of abortion clinics would remain intact we were told. Doctors, not technicians, would continue to be abortionists. Patients would still be required to be informed about the complications and implications of an abortion with a reasonable waiting period before making a final decision to terminate a healthy pregnancy. The cost of the abortion would not be borne by citizens whose consciences disapprove of killing babies. So they told us.
Gaslighting is another metaphor for the camel’s nose story. Or maybe the best analogy is the one where you put a frog in a pot of warm water and slowly turn up the heat and before the frog realizes it is being cooked to death, it is too late. Just as it is becoming too late for each of the 30,000 or so aborted babies every year in Michigan. That exact number will now never be known because the law that required reporting of abortion procedures—and any complications—is no longer required.
The lights slowly dim and the heat slowly goes up, and we citizens are forced not only to tolerate full term abortions, but we will soon be required to subsidize those murders with MEDICAID (can you say “taxpayer”?) funding if the ACLU and the Kalamazoo YWCA win their 27 June lawsuit filed with the Michigan Court of Claims.
One last metaphor, please: the shame is on us for giving the disgraceful inch that has become the unforgivable mile.
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