We’re six days from the
greatest unintended birth of all time!
It has been 18 months since the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health reversed Roe v Wade — putting the abortion issue back in the public square, where it belongs.
We need to argue this issue out. When does human life begin? Some of us believe it begins at, well, the beginning. Others hold it is the woman’s choice right up to delivery but shrink from putting it so baldly, lest the hideous consequences scar the mind’s eye.
Even so, this beaten down cynic was unprepared for the pro-abortion pitch two University of Wisconsin medical professors made in Sunday’s fish wrap. The two authors lamented that during the first six months of this year:
“Dobbs forced at least 1,500 unintended births,
causing harm to Wisconsin communities.”
Unintended births? You mean, babies? Born alive, gurgling and wiggling their tiny toes? Not terminated in utero? No dilation and rip-e-tage? That kind of harm?
The profs get around to defining “community harm” as “pregnancy-related mortality.” This community harm is worse, the profs say, for “families who already face the greatest systemic inequities, including economic insecurity and racism.” Madison wouldn’t be as Woke as Joy Reid after a thermos bottle of espresso if every other declarative sentence didn’t include that guilty asterisk.
Sue enough, one of the authors is listed as “the Bissell professor of reproductive health, rights, and justice.” We get the reproductive health part (it applies equally to the baby, no?) But what’s with the “rights and justice” part unless it’s more academic DEI? (Paging Robin Vos and Devin LeMahieu!) A little research defines “reproductive justice” as “access to the full range of health care associated with family planning, including pregnancy termination.”
“Pregnancy termination.” Can’t even say the A-word, can we?
As for “pregnancy-related mortality,” the cryptologists at Blaska Policy Works guess it means some mothers will die but Click and Clack never say how many. They ARE able to quantify the births, however — 1,503, to be exact.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: One thousand, five hundred — and three! — babies that will not experience “pregnancy-related mortality”! That will not be harmed in Wisconsin’s communities.
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Never underestimate the myopia of progressive academics.
Yes we need those single mothers with 4 kids to have 14 kids instead.
God bless us, every one.
Fresh off’n her deft handling of the epic
illegal immigration surgedemocrat voter drive, Border Czar Kamala Harris seeks a new challenge: A Whirlwind Tour to promote choicing one’s pregnancies, which will bring her to a fawning Madison, WI audience on January 22nd.Unlike the despicably hypocritical VP, The Gotch’ll be hiding his Wolf Gas Range….
The Gotch
Pro choice is a winning strategy. IMHO Texas fumbled the ball recently.
A winning strategy for Republicans would be to emphasize their support for reasonable compromise. Do that AND people get to see more of the mess that is our VP and victory is assured.
As a devout agnostic, The Gotch is Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion; the two positions aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.
The Gotch
Agreed.
If you’re referring to the Cox decision, my early understanding is that Texas didn’t fumble anything—they acted within the confines of their own laws. I’m still reading the full text of the court decision, but it seems that Cox, backed by a well funded pro-abortion group, brought this case to the courts when she had no proof that carrying the baby to term would cause her serious injury. Her doctor could only provide a good faith belief of harm when the standard of proof in any medical case in Texas is reasonable certainty. So the way I see it, either her doctor or lawyer are fools or the entire thing was a publicity stunt. My money is on the latter.
A reasonable compromise would look a lot like how most of Europe handles it: abortion on demand in the first trimester, and allowances only for medical necessity or sex crimes afterward.
Ditto
OT, but Soul Brother #1/The Hardest Workin’ Man In Show Business died on Christmas Day, 2006.
It took nearly a QUINDECADE to sort through the myriad lawsuits filed by
bloodsucking hangersonconcerned family members, but it finally settled last year.The Gotch
The Virgin Birth was one big Immaculate Misconception.