Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union
sued the state of Maine recently over a law requiring that only doctors perform abortions, according to the organizations
themselves. The entities are challenging the law as “unconstitutional,” and
claim that “qualified nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives,” among others,
can effectively perform abortions, at least in the first trimester of
pregnancy. (Forty-one other states currently have similar laws. Maine’s was
enacted in 1979).
Nicole
Clegg, the vice-president of public policy for Planned Parenthood of Northern
New England, said: “What people outside Maine may not realize is how rural our
state is, and how hard it can be to access health care.” (Substituting
“accessing health care” for “killing babies” is one of the all-time great
euphemism ploys). She added, “A person’s ability to make their own personal
decisions about abortion shouldn’t depend on their zip code.” Talk to the
“fetus” about “a person’s ability to
make their own personal decisions about abortion.”
The
legal director of the ACLU of Maine, Zachary Heiden, chimed in, “Anyone who has
made it through a Maine winter in a rural area knows that travel can be
dangerous or impossible at times- it’s wrong to make a woman risk a journey of
hundreds of miles to get an abortion when there are qualified providers
nearby.” This is raising disingenuousness to a new level. We no longer travel
by Conestoga wagon, Zach. Moreover, Maine is a relatively small state. Also,
global warming is rendering cold and snow extinct, right? And, there aren’t
really many “emergency” abortions. If a girl is delayed for a few days, it’s
not like she’s going to be denied the opportunity to off her offspring.
But
what the hell, I say celebrate inclusiveness. Let’s open up the abortion
industry to anyone that wants to take a crack at it. Why limit the
extermination of “fetuses” to qualified doctors? I mean, what difference does
it make, in the end, to the aborted ones? Let’s let plumbers, fishermen,
truckers, salesmen, athletes, entertainers, journalists, gigolos, professors,
Congressmen, sanitary engineers, astrologers, bakers, attorneys, florists- and
anyone else who is of an open mind- have at the unwanted tissue masses.
After
all, a person’s ability to perform abortions shouldn’t depend on their
occupation, should it?
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