With abortion big in the news this week, let’s not forget that the State of Maryland is actively moving forward to fund security at abortion clinics:
A bill to create a grant funding program for reproductive health clinics to bolster security at their facilities is on its way to the governor’s desk. It was one of the last bills to pass.
SB 975, sponsored by Sen. Sarah K. Elfreth (D-Anne Arundel), squeezed out of the House Appropriations Committee on Monday afternoon and was brought to the House floor for consideration around 9 p.m.
The bill gives the governor the authority to carve out $500,000 to go towards clinics that offer abortion services, as pro-abortion advocates say violence and vandalism at these facilities have increased since the overturning of federal abortion protections in Roe v. Wade.
Nobody of sound mind and moral character thinks abortion providers should be harmed, no matter how heinous, immoral, and evil their work is. The weapons of choice for true pro-lifers must be prayer, not pistols.
But what’s damnable of it all is the fact that Democrats are so hellbent on legitimizing and protecting abortion that it’s the only pregnancy-related centers that Maryland Democrats are willing to protect:
House Republicans argued that so-called pregnancy crisis centers in Maryland have received harassment from pro-abortion advocates and deserve similar funding and protections.
Crisis pregnancy centers are generally clinics that aim to discourage pregnant people from seeking abortions and instead urge them to carry their pregnancies to term, but they have long been scrutinized for providing misleading information to clients about abortion.
Del. April Miller (R-Frederick) offered a floor amendment to allow the grant funding to go towards such anti-abortion facilities in addition to clinics that provide abortion services.
“Why would we specifically make a grant program that would only be for groups that provide abortion when they’re all doing women’s health care?” Miller posed. Half a dozen Republican delegates spoke in support of her amendment.
Miller’s amendment failed on a 37-96 vote, however.
Notwithstanding the biased language (“so-called” pregnancy crisis center? No mention of the actual misleading information provided by abortion providers), this highlights an important core belief of Maryland Democrats.
Democrats think those who kill babies should receive state protection. And Democrats think those who want to save babies should not. Abortion has become such a sacrament to Democrats that they are perfectly fine letting the shunned suffer while protecting the chosen.
And Democrats still won’t tell us what they will do to protect Maryland’s most vulnerable: the children.