{"id":22979,"date":"2014-06-23T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=22979"},"modified":"2014-12-24T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T04:52:55","slug":"equal-and-opposite-reaction-pro-aborts-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/06\/equal-and-opposite-reaction-pro-aborts-fight-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal and Opposite Reaction: Pro Aborts Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>


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For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. \u00a0<\/strong>Sir Isaac Newton<\/p>\n

Sometimes, the laws of physics sound political. Never is this more true than with Sir Isaac Newton\u2019s Third Law of Motion.<\/p>\n

This third law states simply that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It is talking about the push-pull of the forces that create motion in pairs of forces.<\/p>\n

Think about it.<\/p>\n

You use your legs to kick when you are a swimming. Every time you kick, you \u201cpush\u201d against the water. But \u2014 and here\u2019s the reaction \u2014 the water is also pushing back against you. That\u2019s why you can go from one end of the swimming pool to the other. It\u2019s also why you make waves while you\u2019re doing it.<\/p>\n

In politics, this action-reaction thing gets a little more vocal. Here\u2019s a for-instance. Pro abortion people managed to get the Supreme Court to legalize all abortions from conception to birth by judicial fiat. Pro life people reacted by pushing back with laws that regulate the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

Now, the pro aborts are reacting to that reaction and bringing out laws of their own making the regulations illegal. These laws, which are being introduced at both the state and federal level, put an ironic lie to the old pro abortion claim that they want abortion to be safe, <\/em>legal and rare. <\/em><\/p>\n

Pro abortionists consistently oppose any and every law that seeks to regulate the abortion industry. They do this to the point that I have personally seen women who are pro choice \u2014 as opposed to pro abortion \u2014 begin to get a bit antsy about it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve even seen pro choice women come out in favor of pro life laws because they see both the sense and need of them. For some reason I don\u2019t quite get, this is not as true of pro choice men. I would guess \u2014 don\u2019t know, just guessing \u2014 that this difference has something to do with the different perspectives men and women have of abortion.<\/p>\n

The all-time King Daddy of this new opposite reaction from the pro abortion people is S 1696. The pro abortion folks have mis-named S 1696 the Women\u2019s Health Protection Act. What makes S 1696 so special is that it\u2019s not a state law. With S 1696, the pro abortion people are, quite literally, making a federal case out of it. They know, to use another tired old canard, that the way to shut down abortion clinic regulation in all 50 states is to use an Act of Congress.<\/p>\n

Federal law differs from state law in several ways, but the most obvious is that federal law affects the entire country, while state law affects only the states in which it is enacted. It\u2019s a lot easier to change Congress than it is to change the legislative bodies of all 50 states. Plus \u2014 and this is also huge \u2014 Federal law seeps into every crack of state governance. The primary method of transmission is federal money.<\/p>\n

S 1696 is, as I said, the all-time-King-Daddy of opposite reactions to efforts to regulate the abortion industry on a state-by-state basis. If S 1696 becomes law, and the Court upholds it, it will supersede any and all local authority in the regulation of the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

The language<\/a> of S 1696 is among the most specific I have read in any proposed statute. It reads like a laundry list of thou shalt nots, aimed specifically and without any attempt to hide it, at state statutes that the authors of S 1696 disagree with. As such, it\u2019s not a proposed law as such things are generally regarded. It is, instead, a specific and deliberate overturning of a large number of state regulations in order to protect the laissez faire practices of one industry. It is special interest legislation at its most crude and obvious.<\/p>\n

This whole thing is so rife with irony that it is, despite its seriousness, comical.<\/p>\n

What we have with this King-Daddy of pro abortion bills are regulation-prone Democrats, fighting to completely deregulate one industry, while deregulation-prone Republicans are fighting to regulate it. To top that off, the bill\u2019s authors have chosen to name this woman-endangering bill the \u201cWomen\u2019s Health Care Protection Act.\u201d The irony in that is obvious. This proposed legislation would erase any and all protections for women who undergo abortions and allow corporate, multi-state abortion chains to do with and to women as they please. It\u2019s the opposite of women\u2019s health care protection.<\/p>\n

To steal a line from the movie Apocalypse Now, \u201cSometimes it gets so thick, you need wings to stay above it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now, S1696, which was authored by Senator Blumenthal<\/a>, is languishing in the United States Senate, where it\u2019s been since it was first filed in 2013. There are not enough votes to pass it. Even if it got out of the Senate, it would be deep-sixed in the Republican-held House.<\/p>\n

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That doesn\u2019t mean the bill is doomed. It just means that it\u2019s an idea whose votes have not yet been elected to power. Power goes back and forth in this country. Look at Congress today and know that what you see now will change radically in the future. The Rs may take over for a while, or the Ds may get control of both houses. Whatever is not, or whatever happens next, it will change. Eventually, everybody gets a turn at play.<\/p>\n

There is no way this kind of legislation or this fight is going to go away so long as we continue to tolerate the two-party two-step on this issue. We can delay passage of S 1696, but we can\u2019t stop it. Not with the tactics we\u2019ve been using.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve talked about the Republicans and corporatism quite a bit lately, and I\u2019m going to do more of it as time goes by. But for today, let\u2019s look at the Democrats and their love affair with all things libertine. The Democratic Party was once staunchly pro life. In my usual contrarian way, I was pro choice back then. Now that the party is staunchly pro choice, I\u2019m pro life.<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n

But I remember quite clearly when the legislation supporting the pro life cause came from the Ds. The switch began in the 1980s and was fueled, ironically enough, by the Moral Majority and its supporters. For reasons of their own, they decided to demonize the Democratic Party and cast it into the role of pro abortion. They lied \u2014 a lot \u2014 about Democratic candidates. I\u2019ve seen some of the outrageous lies that were put out against pro life Democrats at that time, claiming they were pro abortion, pro beastiality, Communists and whatever else it took to beat them in elections.<\/p>\n

This ended in pro life people leaving the Democratic party and the pro life Democrats who hung on becoming friendless political waifs. They were attacked by the religious right for being pro abortion, even when they weren\u2019t, and shunned by their own party.<\/p>\n

The result is the mess we have now: Two polarized parties, elected puppet people that only care about going at one another and carrying water for their party\u2019s special interests, and a badly damaged country.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 1696 and its total subservience to the abortion industry is a symptom of this. The fact that it will, in time \u2014 years in the future, but it will \u2014 become law is a direct result of this silo approach to the pro life issue.<\/p>\n

You can not create a culture of life with half the people.<\/p>\n

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The solution \u2014 and it\u2019s an obvious solution \u2014 is to convert the Democratic Party on this issue.<\/p>\n

If that sounds tough, it is.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s far from impossible. In fact, based on the scanty attendance at most precinct meetings, it\u2019s highly do-able. It\u2019s been done before.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s lacking is the direction. Pro life people are being led to keep on doing what they\u2019ve always been doing. Forty-one years in, maybe we should think about trying something new.<\/p>\n

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That dictum holds true in physics without us doing anything. But in human relations, especially in politics, we\u2019ve got to supply a bit of the gas to make those equal and opposite reactions happen. We have to be that equal and opposite reaction.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019re pro life enough to pray Rosaries for Life in front of abortion clinics. We\u2019re pro life enough to go to Washington and San Francisco and points in between to march.<\/p>\n

That means we\u2019re pro life enough to go to a precinct meeting. We just need to know how.<\/p>\n

Which, my friends, is why I\u2019m here.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned. We\u2019re going to talk more.<\/p>\n

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