The Upcoming Fight for Life (Guest Voice)
The Upcoming Fight for Life
by Michael Reagan
This week Arizona struck another blow in the fight to protect the unborn.
According to the pro-abortion lobby, the new legislation, signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, works to “creates barriers, increases costs and denies access to services and providers to women who seek abortion care.”
In my opinion, that is good news.
This legislation is a long time in coming, and it’s full of plain-sense steps — the sort of guidelines even those who allow for abortions should be able to get behind: a one-day waiting period, parental notification for minors seeking abortion, doctor’s disclosure about the risks and alternatives.
But even changes this straightforward had been stonewalled by Democratic former Gov. Janet Napolitano, recently promoted to lead the Department of Homeland Security, who vetoed the same legislation when it reached her desk.
To her mind, it seems, we should make people wait before purchasing a hunting rifle, but dare not ask the same consideration before taking an unborn life. Our children can’t be given aspirin from the school nurse without our sign-off, but who even needs to know about the impact of a life-altering abortion?
Pro-choice Democrats have only offered knee-jerk resistance to these conversations, which reminds me just how important it is that we elect Republicans to the highest levels of our state leadership. This November we will have gubernatorial elections in both New Jersey and Virginia. In both states there’s a real chance to replace Democratic governors with Republicans.
Right now New Jersey is one of the worst states for protection of the unborn and does not even have any sort of ban on the cloning of embryos for research. Both of these states desperately need more legal protection, and with one election a pro-choice governor could block any forward movement and send us reeling in the opposite direction.
Next year, 37 more states will elect governors, half of those seats currently held by Democrats. With a pro-choice president merrily overturning the work of the last administration, it’s easy to keep our eyes on Washington and think the next big fight will be our rematch in 2012.
But it isn’t. In a year and a half we’ll have a fight on our hands which we can’t afford to lose.
It’s up to us to ensure that in every seat, at every level, we put the right people in place who will stand and put pen to paper to protect our next generation. We’ve never needed Washington to set the tone for us, and we’re certainly not going to start now. We’ll fight for our children, born and unborn, in our own homes, our own states. In 2010, let’s give them something to remember.
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is chairman and president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation (www.reaganlegacyfoundation.org). ©2009 Mike Reagan. Mike’s column is distributed exclusively by: Cagle Cartoons, Inc., newspaper syndicate and is licensed to appear on TMV in full. The cartoon by Dario Castillejos, Dario La Crisis, is also licensed to appear on TMV. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.
9 Responses to “The Upcoming Fight for Life (Guest Voice)”
All hail the American Taliban, who bend over backwards to praise the embryo and ignore the actual human being involved.
Only if one is a heartless bastard. It is never good news to price someone out of medical care. One may or may not agree that the medical care is necessary or that it is moral, but putting it out of reach based simply on price only ensures that poor women cannot access abortion care. Wealthy women….well, apparently it isn't a problem when they seek abortions.
Well, it's time for some quality control and improvement on this thread.
That the extremists hate what the governor is doing is indeed real-world, quality-people's good news.
As for abortion itself, the extremists (abortion always, provided always by government) are going to be in full force once federal health care is extended beyond the elderly to females of child-bearing age, as I've said before. The lefties who politicize this so much to such scummy depths so often will be at the forefront (in fact, initiating so many of) the battles to come.
You're warned, again.
It's really too bad you have nothing to offer to improve anything in this thread. The proof is in your own words – “real-world, quality-people” will see this as good news. By that definition, everyone else is either not real – which is a bizarre concept – or are not “quality.” Honestly, such ad hominem attacks aren't quality on any level.
I stand by my statement: Pricing health-care out of the reach of some people is never a reason for celebration. It simply shows that the anti-abortion is truly afraid of giving people a viable choice in the matter. If that weren't true, then simple “education” measures would be enough. Obviously, they aren't. But then, I suppose not everyone can be “real-world, quality-people” and so someone else must make decisions on their behalf.
Right now New Jersey is one of the worst states for protection of the unborn and does not even have any sort of ban on the cloning of embryos for research.
Keep your fetus-worshipping paws off New Jersey, Michael Reagan. This wonderful state has some of the strongest legal protections for women in the country, and we who live here (which I doubt includes you) aim to keep it that way.
When it comes to abortion, people in the mold of Reagan are so deeply trapped in anti-choice propaganda and dogma it's almost impossible for them to have any serious, open-minded dialogue. The backwoods, dark ages, cultish approach to this chapter of cultural conflict is their bread and butter – even when they try to cloak it in reasonable sounding words. And of course there are those in the mold of DLS, who gleefully abandon any pretense of reason to begin with. My response to the anti-choice people is the same as it's ever been: Don't have an abortion if you don't want to, but mind your own damned business when it comes to other peoples bodies.
“Pricing health-care out of the reach of some people is never a reason for celebration.”
I'm not advocating that, of course, nor committing any logical fallacy whose term you can recall at random.
Abortion and the militant abortion crowd (not to mention the Religious Right, mostly in retaliation) will be a huge deal once public health care is extended beyond the elderly to child-bearing females. You are again warned. (Whether some of you can learn is another issue and doesn't merit relevence here.
” DLS, who gleefully abandon any pretense of reason”
Not to mention those engaging in mirror talk who likely cannot even comprehend the blatantly obvious.
What is “blatantly obvious” is your inability to understand the routinely offensive nature of your own posting, which unfortunately for you, overshadows the rare moments when you do have something worth saying.
attention wingnuts and reagan's adopted son (who is still trying to get daddy to notice him), abortion is a legal procedure, and pricing individuals out of getting this procedure will only cause them to seek out illegal and dangerous means to get it
this law puts women's lives at risk
michael reagan is an evil sob