How To Save The Babies
Posted by: tony on 05/23/2007 01:53 PM
Updated by: tony on 05/23/2007 01:55 PM
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Expires: 06/23/2007 12:00 AM
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I have always criticized the tactics of the sign-waving, in-your-face, chain-yourself-to-the-clinic, Operation Rescue type of abortion protesting. I have always contended that the way to stop abortion is ceaseless prayer, and the conversion of one heart and mind at a time.
It looks to be working.
Canada, which reputedly provides the most open legal access to abortion in the western world, doesn't provide access enough, said an abortion rights group last week.
Many women can't get abortions at all, or are subjected to long delays. The group's solution: Require doctors by law to perform abortions whether they like it or not.
And this in Canada, that bastion of beer, moose and progressive thinking.
This demand, made upon the Canadian Medical Association by Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation, inadvertently disclosed a curious fact. Though abortion is technically legal in Canada up to the moment of birth, so many doctors refuse to do it that access to it is effectually restricted [ed.- Emphasis mine].
Some doctors reject abortion on purely professional grounds. Medicine is about healing sick people and pregnancy isn't a sickness.
Well. duh.
Maybe the drive-by media ought to get to the bottom of this by interviewing these non-aborting doctors, ask them why they refuse to perform abortions and air their answers on national TV.
Some encouraging statistics:
Only 15% of hospitals provide the service and that percentage is declining.
And this is a trend. I'd imagine that many doctors experience a cognitive dissonance when trying to reconcile abortion with their Hippocratic oath. The abortionists who do it exclusively have no attraction to healing people. So abortion attracts the bottom of the barrel with regard to medical morality and even skill. Why would a talented... say... heart surgeon, give it up to scrape out women at a couple hundred a pop?
Looks like their number is declining. Joel expects this to happen here at a "blue state near you".
I don't believe this is ever going to be the case. One reason is that a couple of unintended consequences would happen.
1. Less talented and caring people will become doctors.
2. The "compassion level" of doctors would go down as the ratio of those willing to kill the unborn go up.
However, I do expect to see legislation happen that allows people with less than an MD to do the deed. Kind of a "state sanctioned back-alley abortion in the office" law.
Joel seems a little pessimistic. I'm hopeful. Abortion will end, in God's good time.
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