Oh, Happy Day!

God bless the Oklahoma State Senate who passed an anti-abortion bill. It’s now off to the governor’s desk. I only pray that he will sign it. Of course, the anti-life crowd is whining about how this is unfair to women. Look at what it entails, then tell me how this is unfair:
1.Require abortion providers to perform an ultrasound examination on a woman before terminating her pregnancy.
2.Allows doctors and other health care providers to refuse to take part in an abortion for moral and religious reasons.
3.Requires a woman to sign a consent form before having an abortion and mandates that federal guidelines be followed in the use of the chemical pill RU-486.
4.Prohibits “wrongful-life” lawsuits that argue a disabled child would have been better off aborted.

Can you see why we are rejoicing in Oklahoma today? This was no narrow passage either, it sailed through 38-10. What were the objections of the ten? Sen. Jeff Rabon, D-Hugo said that requiring a woman who is contemplating abortion to view an ultrasound and sign a consent form first “would dehumanize and humiliate women.” Wow. Is this the best example of pro-woman thinking? Don’t tell women the truth or show them what it is that they are contemplating because it would be too hard on the little dears.

I’m tired of this attitude from the far left which assumes that women are too dumb or too unstable to know truth. They talk about freeing women from a patriarchal system (blah, blah, blah) but then set up one of their own wherein those with political power and influence determine what’s best for the rest. They seek to be the lone conduit of truth, censoring which parts of the truth are allowed to filter through.

Shame on them. How dare they think that women don’t have the right to have all the knowledge necessary before making what is literally a life or death decision. Shame on them for setting themselves up as the censors of truth in what should be the one place where hard truths are always told, the doctor’s office. How would these bastions of medical freedom react if a doctor didn’t tell a woman she had cancer because he judged that she was “too emotionally fragile”? They would howl with outrage. And it is right that they should.

The more I read and hear from the anti-life crowd, the more I become convinced of their agenda. They are not in favor of women having freedom to “choose”. If so, they would want women to have all the information available including an ultrasound of the “products of conception”. They would want them to be well informed because they would truly value women and want to protect their minds and bodies, not just their “rights”. Their goal seems to be the death of as many children as possible. The means don’t seem to matter. Lie to women, deceive them, confuse them, even in some cases force them. But make sure that you kill that thing growing inside of her, it’s the real enemy of women. They will not stop until they have a childless society, then women will be truly “free”. Our society will be unencumbered.

I have news for them. A low birth rate is not the mark of an advanced society, it is the mark of a dying society.

So, God bless the Oklahoma State legislature who declared yesterday that women were smart enough to see their children, smart enough to be told the truth, wise enough to be treated as equal human beings. Now if we could only extend that equality to the children they carry. That would be a day of true rejoicing.