Expectant Mother Care

NO CHOICE AT ALL
by Thomas A. Droleskey March 21, 2002, Griffin Internet

It does not take a doctorate to recognize that "liberals" are among the most fascistic of people.

The very people who claim to be champions of freedom give others the freedom only to agree with them. Anyone who disagrees with their "received teaching" must be denounced by the use of all manner of slogans. Indeed, those who dissent from cultural orthodoxy experience a sort of "excommunication" from various "privileges" extended to them by our prevailing cultural elite, sometimes including employment.

The irony of this is very plain to see: those who incant slogans do not believe in them, as they are as autocratic and dictatorial as they claim the ones whose "intolerance" they oppose are alleged to be. Liberals, who are relativists and positivists, believe that they alone have the authority and the right to define the terms of social debate, no less the very meaning of the words used in such debate. Case-in-point: State of New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer.

As I mentioned in last month's issue of CHRIST OR CHAOS, Spitzer, who is up for reelection this year, has begun to harass Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the State of New York, focusing in particular on centers that are run by Christopher Slattery, who has dedicated the better part of the past two decades to helping women bring their unborn children to birth (and then to help to provide them with the means to support those children or to arrange for their adoption by loving couples).

Spitzer is not ploughing new ground. No, he is merely going over the same ground ploughed in 1987 and 1988 by one of his predecessors, the notorious and nefarious Robert Abrams. Using the model devised by Abrams, Spitzer is claiming that Crisis Pregnancy Centers in se lie to women and therefore deprive them of their "right to choose" an abortion, especially by "pressuring" women with the sort of information that "frightens" them into giving birth rather than making "an informed choice" to "terminate their pregnancies."

Herein lies Spitzer's typical pro-abortion and liberal hypocrisy and fascism: how is a woman supposed to "choose" rationally when she is not informed about the specific nature of a surgical procedure which kills her unborn child and places herself in medical risk?

Of course, no one has the right to "choose" to kill any innocent human life from the first moment of fertilization through all subsequent stages until natural death. Granted. However, those who claim to be advocates of choice do not want women to choose rationally at all.

They want women to act on impulse. And the first impulse of many women who have been convinced by the sex-educators to engage in conjugal relations outside of marriage is to consider killing the fruit of their wombs as a result of their belief that our laws make such killing morally acceptable. So-called family planning agencies, such as Planned Parenthood, do not offer "counseling" about the true nature of abortion.

Abortionists do not do so. Women who seek out "counseling" and "advice" from pro-abortion agencies and actual abortionists are encouraged to kill their children as soon as they can. Pro-aborts have done everything imaginable to defeat "informed consent" legislation in state legislatures and in the courts.

The very people who scream bloody murder when women are not informed about the consequences of some alleged threat to their health caused by environmental or industrial pollution do not want women informed about the true nature of abortion (and its multifaceted physical and emotional ramifications) precisely because they favor bloody murder.

Crisis Pregnancy Centers have offered real information to expectant mothers. Thousands of babies are alive today as a result of the love and generosity and support and hope offered to anxious women who have been on the verge of killing their children. Sure, some women entered Crisis Pregnancy Centers not knowing that they would be counseled to choose life rather than to deal death. How many women know the true agenda of Planned Parenthood, for example?

Do not many women seek out Planned Parenthood without realizing the pressure they will receive from its employees to kill their children, no less to consider being sterilized as well?

Although those of us who are pro-life know full well the true history of Planned Parenthood from its founding as the Birth Control League by the racist and eugenicist Margaret Sanger, the average person, including the average teenager, does not know anything other than that Planned Parenthood "is there" for them when they have an "unplanned" pregnancy.

Even married women, especially those who come from Latin America, are pressured to use contraception or to accept sterilization. Expectant mothers seeking "help" from a Planned Parenthood "clinic" are not receiving assistance from dispassionate observers of this country's social scene.

No, they are being pressured to have an abortion , being told in most instances of the horrible effects of carrying a pregnancy to term would have on their lives (trap them in poverty, burden them with the care of a child when they could be pursuing a career, impede their social lives).

An honest attorney general of a state would investigate and seek to shut down all so-called "family planning" clinics for dishonesty by the use of very manipulative pressure tactics and for medical malfeasance by the withholding of information which, if withheld from a patient in all other medical procedures, would be the grounds for actual malpractice lawsuits.

As I noted last month, however, the fact that Elliot Spitzer is in power is the result of his predecessor's lack of moral courage. Former Attorney General Dennis Vacco, who was defeated by Spitzer very narrowly in 1998, refused to take the New York State Right to Life Party endorsement, taking the advice of then U.S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato that the Right to Life endorsement would be a political liability for him in a tight race.

As it turned out, Vacco's lack of courage resulted in his defeat. He would have earned enough votes on the Right to Life Party line to put him ahead of Spitzer. How sad it is that establishment pro-lifers in New York did not seek to persuade Vacco to ignore D'Amato and the fully pro-abortion Catholic Republican governor of the State of New York, George Pataki, and take a visible, public stand in behalf of the babies and their mothers.

"He who is ashamed of Me and My doctrine before men, I will be ashamed of before My Father in Heaven." Vacco was ashamed of the pro-life position, thus enabling Spitzer to get elected -- and to thereby use the pulpit of New York attorney general to pummel and harass loving, selfless, giving volunteers who take seriously the words of the Divine Redeemer:

"Whatsoever you do to the least of My brethren, that you do unto Me." Spitzer is using this issue to help his reelection this year. However, it will be interesting to see whether the pro-abortion Republican Party in the State of New York will nominate a candidate who will oppose Spitzer's persecution of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in the general election this fall.

A candidate unwilling to oppose Spitzer forcefully on this issue is unworthy of the votes of pro-lifers, for a person unwilling to oppose evil in a campaign will never do so once in office.

He will continue Spitzer's policies lest he run afoul of the pro-abortion movement, which never hesitates to use its political clout to support only those candidates who are completely pro-abortion, raising the question once more as to why pro-lifers are so reluctant to support only those candidates who are completely and unqualifiedly pro-life.

As I have noted so frequently, the more we enable the so-called lesser of two evils, the higher and higher the dose of that lesser evil becomes over time. Our prayers and our efforts must support Crisis Pregnancy Centers, which are in many instances the only places where women are going to find themselves given the full truth about the sanctity of life and will be provided with the fullness of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.

We need to pray to Blessed Gianna, a married woman who carried her last pregnancy to term even though she knew there was a risk that she might die, who bears a loving witness to the truth that "Greater love hath no man than this: that he lay down his life for another." Those who volunteer in Crisis Pregnancy Centers are laying down their lives on a daily basis so that others may have life not only here in this vale of tears but for all eternity in Heaven.

They are giving women the best choice of all: a chance for eternal blessedness with their progeny. May our Lady, the Mother of Life, help them in their hour of persecution.
Copyright 2002 Griffin Internet Syndicate~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Dr. Thomas Droleskey, speaker and lecturer, is a professor of political science, the author of CHRIST IN THE VOTING BOOTH and THERE IS NO CURE FOR THIS CONDITION (www.hopeofstmonica.com), and editor of the CHRIST OR CHAOS newsletter. This column is distributed and archived by Griffin Internet Syndicate, http://www.griffnews.com.

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