Oh, It’s Only Abortion!

By Deacon Mike Manno

(The Wanderer) – Yeah, you heard it right. Abortion, the wanton killing of a preborn child, is back big time in the news. But as controversial as the topic is, I’ve noticed that more and more folks, including leading Catholic laymen and prelates, trying to brush the issue aside as if it is as normal as taking your dog for a walk.

After all, it is health care.

Even our devout Catholic president — or whoever is pulling his strings — has become a champion of its expansion: abortion everywhere, anytime, and for any reason. And of course if you are trying to limit it, well, you might as well be considered a neo-Nazi, or a skinhead, or — even worse — a white Christian Taliban who needs to be investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for crimes against women.

And, of course, the DOJ has announced that it will do just that in Texas, in case any other uppity states might wish to save babies. Remember, it is healthcare. Healthcare for pregnant “persons.”

After all it’s only abortion, a right that should be respected for all. It is, they say, reproductive health care and women (except female fetuses) need it so they can live a life unencumbered by the cares of child-raising. You see, this is truly health care.

But not so fast. What kind of health care is it that starts with two patients, kills one and, regrettably, sometimes maims or even kills the other?

Consider a recent report by the Charlotte Lozier Institute which found that in 2019 that some 11 percent of the abortions in Wisconsin resulted in complications, including 621 cases where body parts of the aborted children remained in the woman’s body after the procedure, up over 750 percent from the year before.

Other complications included 54 cervical lacerations, five instances of hemorrhaging, four uterine perforations, and three infections, the report found.

Wow, that’s some healthcare Badger women, er, pregnant persons, received! Is that why we need more of it?

“These figures out of Wisconsin are devastating and an indictment of the lack of care for women, especially by the abortion industry and its advocates, who refuse to tell the truth about the risks of abortion,” according to the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

“Chemical abortion is rapidly becoming more common than surgical abortion around the world, despite being four times more likely to result in complications than surgical abortion.”

But abortion advocates are fighting back. Joe the Devout’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, is now going to bat for the baby-killers by suing the state of Texas over its most recent legislation restricting abortion after six weeks into the pregnancy by giving private citizens the right to sue on behalf of the unwanted baby.

And, coming to their aid, the Satanic Temple is now arguing that curbing abortion violates the religious freedom of Satanists. According to the Satanic abortion promoters, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act requires access to abortion-inducing drugs and the Texas law “imposes an undue burden on the ability of [their] members to undergo the Satanic Abortion Ritual” within the first 24 weeks of pregnancy.

“I am sure Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — who famously spends a good deal of his time composing press releases about religious liberty issues in other states — will be proud to see that Texas’ robust religious liberty laws, which he so vociferously champions, will prevent future Abortion Rituals from being interrupted by superfluous government restrictions meant only to shame and harass those seeking an abortion,” Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves said in a statement.

What a great group of compadres this makes. I am so proud of the company Mr. Biden keeps.

Oh, and by the way, the city of Portland — you remember Portland, a fine city before Mayor Ted Wheeler and the city council turned it into a dumpster fire. Well it has announced that it is supporting the right of pregnant persons in Texas by stopping the purchase of all goods and services from Texas and banning all city employee business travel to the state. That will show ’em!

Plus it will give the city time to clean up the approximately $22+ million in damages and lost business revenue from the 30 riots and 62 fires from last year’s attempt to provide a home for Antifa.

And if support from the Satanic Temple, Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s merry abortionists, and the brilliant and enlightened city fathers of Portland isn’t enough to encourage more baby killing, the web hosting service, GoDaddy, has announced it is canceling a Texas pro-life website.

Maybe this is truly health care. All you potential pregnant persons rejoice, Joe’s got your back.

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And as if things aren’t topsy-turvy enough, Alaska Airlines has reportedly fired two flight attendants for asking questions on the company’s internal communication website. It appears that Alaska Airlines announced its support for the Equality Act on its internal employee forum and solicited comments and questions.

In case you have forgotten, the Equality Act would force employers and workers to — among other things — conform to new sexual norms; force hospitals, insurers, and medical providers to provide therapies against their moral objections; normalizing hormonal and surgical interventions for gender dysphoria in children; open sex specific facilities to members of the opposite sex, and create havoc for faith-based institutions over its support for the transgender and homosexual relationships.

The employees posted questions about the morality of some of the Act’s provisions. One of the attendants asked: “Does Alaska support: endangering the Church, encouraging suppression of religious freedom, obliterating women rights and parental rights?”

They were both fired, the Airlines telling them, “Defining gender identity or sexual orientation as a moral issue…is…a discriminatory statement.”

On behalf of the employees, First Liberty Institute has filed separate charges of discrimination against the Airlines with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission.

 (You can reach Mike at: DeaconMike@q.com and listen to him every Thursday mornings at 10 a.m. CT on Faith On Trial on IowaCatholicRadio.com.)