NORTH CAROLINA LIE: ABORTION IS UNSAFE FOR MOTHERS

A new argument in the abortion debate makes the front page. I do not mean to imply it is a good argument; I just mean that it is new. The few women of North Carolina are arguing that they want to prevent abortion to protect the safety and health of the mother. Out of context, it sounds like a good argument. However, the legislation being argued is prevent insurance companies or using taxpayer money from paying for abortions and to close all, not just most but all clinics, where abortions are done and to prevent women from having an abortion in hospitals or doctors offices. In other words, they are forcing women into resorting to a very unsafe procedure, which is the exact opposite of what they are arguing. They should be forcing women who want abortions into the safe environment of qualified hospitals and not into back alleys. They should be asking forgiveness for all the harm they have already done.

Does it not dawn on them that women want and need abortions to shed themselves of unwanted and unhealthy conceptus, or to protect their own lives? Does it not dawn on them that they are usurping the women’s right to decide her quality of life issues? Obviously, it is blatant intrusion by Republicans on some one else’s privacy. In addition, they are arguing that protecting their own health, quality of life, and even their own life is morally wrong. There has to be a touch of socio-pathology involved; how can the Republican women who argue this way suddenly shed themselves of compassion and empathy.  

When we look at the driving force for abortion we see the “church”, that is what some refer to as the bastion of morality. How can it be that people who wear collars backwards are asking women to suffer unspeakable suffering and horrors in the name of morality? Women who all of their lives they have taught the church is the most important thing in their lives but if they decide against church doctrine and try to protect themselves and their quality of life, they will be excommunicated from what they have been taught to worship. They call this morality. It is not; it is down right cruel; therefore immoral.

Perhaps the church vs. morality argument is too esoteric for some in the Evangelical world we live in. So let’s look at the “real” pragmatic argument. Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina lied his way into office by saying he would not support any change in the abortion laws. The state legislature passed a motorcycle safety law that closes all abortion clinics. As a liberal, I do not understand the connection. I guess conservatives think doctors somehow use motorcycles to perform abortions. Anyway, the governor nullified his promise to veto the law because it is no longer an abortion bill but a bill to protect women’s health. He hasn’t sign it yet but he will. It is moral to intrude on women’s quality of life but not moral to lie to be elected to the governors office. 

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