It really is one thing to support abortion on demand. It’s quite another to revere it, to worship it, to treat it as if it’s as easy as ordering a pizza. And this is how deranged the abortion supporters have become
California plans to be abortion sanctuary if Roe overturned
With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature on Wednesday revealed a plan to make the state a “sanctuary” for those seeking reproductive care, including possibly paying for travel, lodging and procedures for people from other states.
The California Future of Abortion Council, made up of more than 40 abortion providers and advocacy groups, released a list of 45 recommendations for the state to consider if the high court overturns Roe v. Wade — the 48-year-old decision that forbids states from outlawing abortion.
I bet one of those recommendations doesn’t include requiring abortion facilities to have the same medical standards as a veterinarian. I bet lots of folks would enjoy a free trip paid for by the California taxpayers, all while California has a massive homeless problem
The recommendations are not just a liberal fantasy. Some of the state’s most important policymakers helped write them, including Toni Atkins, the San Diego Democrat who leads the state Senate and attended multiple meetings.
Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom started the group himself and in an interview last week with The Associated Press said some of the report’s details will be included in his budget proposal in January.
“We’ll be a sanctuary,” Newsom said, adding he’s aware patients will likely travel to California from other states to seek abortions. “We are looking at ways to support that inevitability and looking at ways to expand our protections.”
Or, bear with me, they could recommend people use contraception to avoid getting pregnant. Maybe refrain from having risky, unprotected sex with someone they don’t want to have a child with.
The report asks lawmakers to help clinics increase their workforce to prepare for more patients by giving scholarships to medical students who pledge to offer abortion services in rural areas, help them pay off their student loans and assist with their monthly liability insurance premiums.
Get a free medical education if you help kill babies!
William Teach: Or, bear with me, they could recommend people use contraception to avoid getting pregnant.
Birth control is strongly promoted as part of family planning by organizations such as Planned Parenthood.
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control
William Teach: Maybe refrain from having risky, unprotected sex with someone they don’t want to have a child with.
No birth control method is perfectly effective. Then there’s rape and incest, which many anti-abortion laws fail to consider.
William Teach: I bet one of those recommendations doesn’t include requiring abortion facilities to have the same medical standards as a veterinarian.
Actually, medication abortions are safe enough to have at home. Most in-clinic abortions are safer than dental surgery, so abortion clinics typically have similar safety protocols.
Contraception is cheap, plentiful, and easily available. The public schools teach all about it, and, quite frankly, you’d have to be dumber than the average Democrat not to know something about contraception these days.
The problem is simple: sex is a passion that sometimes overrides more rational thinking, and people who are in the throes of passion do not always stop long enough to think about what they are about to do leading to knockeduptancy. Since things like personal responsibility are no longer in vogue, the obvious solution is to sacrifice the life of the unborn child to the convenience of the pregnant woman.
Dana: Contraception is cheap, plentiful, and easily available.
That’s right. Nor is any form of birth control perfect.
Dana: The problem is simple: sex is a passion that sometimes overrides more rational thinking
Quite so. Especially when young.
Dana: Since things like personal responsibility are no longer in vogue
Abusive relationships, unwanted pregnancy, and abortion are deeply rooted in human culture. It’s not just a modern phenomenon.
Dana: the obvious solution is to sacrifice the life of the unborn child to the convenience of the pregnant woman.
The question is whether to empower the government to enforce your moral prescriptions.
Zachriel: The question is whether to empower the government to enforce your moral prescriptions.
I thought that’s the object of governments. If not to enforce our moral prescriptions on a cultural and national basis then who does? How can there be laws without enforcement of our moral prescription? What is law other than the moral rules of a society. And who better to protect than the tiniest and weakest form of humanity? You were a Zygote once, are you not human?
L.G.Brandon: I thought that’s the object of governments. If not to enforce our moral prescriptions on a cultural and national basis then who does?
You may be against adultery or homosexuality, or that people should go to a Protestant church, but not agree that government should have the power to regulate those aspects of human behavior.
L.G.Brandon: You were a Zygote once, are you not human?
Leaving us aside, here is a simple thought-experiment:
There is a fire at the fertility clinic. Down one hallway, you hear the soft purr of the portable refrigeration unit holding a hundred human zygotes. Down the other hallway, you hear the cries of a human toddler. You may not have time to save both. Which hallway do you choose? To save the hundred or to save the one?