The Runback: Sinister Purposes
Is it really “Reproductive Rights” when your goal is to kill the fruits of reproduction?
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The Monday Thought
Last Thursday, practically the entire Maryland Democratic establishment came out in force to talk about aborton.
Several speakers, including Moore, Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller (D), the presiding officers of the House and Senate, and two of the bills’ chief sponsors, discussed the urgency to act since the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled abortion rights with its Dobbs decision last summer. It was the first joint news conference of the legislative term for Moore, House Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County) and Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City).
“As long as I am the governor of Maryland, our state will be a safe haven for abortion rights,” Moore, who was flanked by close to 100 Democratic lawmakers, asserted, to enthusiastic applause. “But the importance of today and the importance of all these leaders is this: We’re going to make sure that Maryland is a safe haven for abortion rights long after I am governor of this state. That’s the importance of today.”
There is evil in Wes Moore’s words.
No person should want to promote their home being a safe haven for the killing of unborn children. At least nobody of any moral turpitude should. And yet not only did those words come out of Wes Moore’s mouth, he had well over half of the members of the Maryland General Assembly nodding their heard along with him.
I have made a note of how the Democrats don’t want to talk about what an abortion really is, and here are 100 Democrats proving that very fact by referring to “Reproductive Rights.” Is it really “Reproductive Rights” when your goal is to kill the fruits of reproduction?
It’s when you get into the legislative package you realize just how sinister their legislative plans truly are.
HB812/SB786 would prohibit a judge in Maryland from requiring an individual in Maryland to “give certain testimony or a statement or to produce evidence in another state for a case involving an alleged violation of the criminal law of the other state relating to legally protected health care” to whit it would prohibit a Marylander to be ordered to provide testimony in another state in a case regarding abortion. I am no lawyer, but the Constitutionality of Maryland interfering with legal proceedings in another state seems to be an issue certain to wind up at the Supreme Court.
HB477/SB341 would require public colleges in universities in Maryland to implement a “comprehensive reproductive services plan” including 24-hour access to contraception and the legalization of contraception vending machines. The absurdity of this law and the public health danger that it creates, making prescription drugs available over the counter or through a vending machine without a prescription, is astonishing.
This bill is probably the most offensive of the lot. . For one thing, Colleges and Universities are designed to be institutions of higher learning. They are not designed to provide medical or social services to members of the college community. Creating taxpayer-funded “reproductive care” requirements for these institutions is a duplication of already existing services available on the market and a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Hormonal Contraception presents a potential medical danger to any individual who ingests it. This is why Hormonal Contraception is only available on a prescription basis through consultation with their doctor. Hormonal Contraception can cause a number of adverse medical impacts on women, including certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, blood clots, and depression. To make such pills available over the counter would be to create a public health danger that endangers women who areaccessing these pills without the care of a medical doctor.
What’s more alarming is that 24-hour access to Hormonal Contraception via a vending machine. Having such a vending machine available would mean that the individual obtaining the Hormonal Contraception or potentially an abortifacient would not be verified as a member of the campus community nor would they be verified as an individual aged 18 years or older. This could make Maryland’s public colleges and universities a hub for consequence-free access to the community at large, particularly to minors, sex workers, and sexual traffickers looking for easy access to Hormonal Contraception or abortifacients.
How exactly will Maryland benefit if sex traffickers have the ability to provide over-the-counter hormonal drugs to their victims without the fear of consequences? You might as well call Kelly’s bill the “Sex Trafficker Protection Act” because it would eliminate one way of discovering violent sex traffickers.
How exactly will women benefit if they are able to take hormonal-based medicines without the advice of a medical professional?
This bill is problematic to its very core.And of course, then there is Speaker Jones's precious Constitutional Amendment which would amend the State Declaration of Rights to include “Establishing that every person, as a central component of an individual's rights to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom; and prohibiting the State from, directly or indirectly, denying, burdening, or abridging the right unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.”
There’s a certain absurdity to the Jones Amendment and including it in the Declaration of Rights. For the Declaration of Rights starts with:
We, the People of the State of Maryland, grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty, and taking into our serious consideration the best means of establishing a good Constitution in this State for the sure foundation and more permanent security thereof, declare:
Maryland, per the Declaration of Rights, as a state is “grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties”. And Jones wants to completely go against the civil liberties of the unborn, the religious liberties of medical personnel, and the laws of God Himself by instituting a right to kill in the Declaration of Rights.
You can’t be for human rights while continuing to promote how you are wantonly supporting the right to kill the innocent.