By Dave Andrusko
I had meant to write about this but got caught up in other stories. But that’s okay because I don’t imagine anyone could write a better lead paragraph than this from Lauren Enriquez of Texas Right to Life:
“Tweets may be only 140 characters, but sometimes they’re worth a thousand words. [Planned Parenthood President] Cecile Richards recently tweeted in support of New York’s Governor Cuomo’s unabashed campaign to strengthen abortion laws in the state that already boasts the city with the highest abortion rate in the country (New York, NY).”
Reproduced below is Richards’ tweet
What “change,” exactly, is “long-overdue”? You can’t know for sure what Cuomo is proposing because he hasn’t finalized his proposal. But it most likely will be very similar to the Reproductive Health Act which is radical even by New York standards. So let’s see if we can figure out what Richards/Cuomo really want.
Could it be the “long-overdue change” of increasing the abortion rate in New York City from 41% to, say, 70%? Could the “long-overdue change” be increasing the abortion rate among African-American in certain zip codes in the city from an already stunning 60% to—what?—90%? Allow viable unborn children to be aborted? (I think that’s a given.)
How about eliminating waiting periods, parental consent or notification procedures or mandatory ultrasounds? Can’t be that– they don’t exist. Voluntarily provide coverage for abortion under Medicaid? Already the case.
But there are some of the “long-overdue change[s]” we know for sure are goals of Richards/Cuomo. Allow everyone who knows which end of a stethoscope to use to perform abortions. And corner a growing share of the market on late, late, LATE abortions. How?
Only (for lack of a better word) prudence deters abortionists from killing babies well into the second-and thirds—trimesters. But what the governor pushes the envelope?
Kate Pickert, writing for TIME magazine, suggests hopefully, “[I]f Cuomo’s proposal takes effect, some providers may be more willing to perform late-term abortions.”
Let me paraphrase Lauren Enriquez.
“Tweets may be only 140 characters, but sometimes they are in service of adding countless additional unborn babies to the death rolls.”
