George Rebane
OK, here’s the drill. The Left opposes the recent Alabama law that is being replicated in its essential elements by a growing number of heartland states. The crux of the opposition is preserving the mental health of the mother, not her physiological health or other factors about which most on both sides agree. (And as a corollary, saving society from the maturing of a rejected child.) She simply doesn’t think it would be all that satisfying, for a number of reasons, to raise the little darling – besides, at best it was probably a ‘Oops!’ to begin with. So, with the partial information she has during her pregnancy while baby is growing inside her, she should have the right to decide that it should be killed.
And make no mistake, that is the fundamental argument of the pro-abortion proponents who use the ‘mother’s health’ and ‘mother’s right to choose’ smokescreen. So OK, let’s go with that. While the baby is pre-partum, the mother knows little or nothing about the potential of that baby to bring her happiness and grow up to lead a productive life that contributes to society. The pro-abortionists are militating for her right to make the life or death choice in ignorance. Any reasonable person would agree that her choice would be more informed and, in short, better for all if she made it knowing more about the child.
So why not increase her legal prerogatives to preserve her QoL and mental health in general, by allowing her to make the decision based on more complete information about the little tyke. Let’s give all women the option of terminating the development (life) of their child after they have seen how the little darlins are really turning out. Why not extend the pro-choice period they demand to include, say, the first couple or three post-partum years of the kid’s life? The mother would have a hell of a lot more information about how her offspring is going to turn out, and the kind of kink it will put in her lifestyle if she kept the kid. After all, it’s all about empowering women and extending the mother’s right to choose so she can make a more informed decision. And the final solution for the rejected kid will be the same, we kill it – now as then, we can make it so the kid will never know what hit him.
In the end, if it’s all legal, no one will make a fuss, and in fact, no one will even have to know if one day mom is no longer pushing a perambulator around the shopping mall. If anyone asks, she just tells them that she exercised her woman’s right to choose, just as if she had decided early on to get rid of the bump in her belly. Everyone will understand that a law extending womens’ rights in this fashion makes all the sense in the world, since it gives them a greater latitude to decide with much more information than just blindly condemning to death a child whom she has yet to meet and get to know. So, let’s get with the program.
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