Abortion And Religious Discrimination Are Not Justified By Tragedy And Euphemisms by Doug Wrenn

Abortion And Religious Discrimination Are Not Justified By Tragedy And Euphemisms

By Doug Wrenn

March 16, 2007

No woman should ever have to endure rape. And for anyone woman who has so suffered, that very personal incident is strictly between her and with whomever she shares that intimate knowledge. But when a rape victim regales her story to the public, she makes herself fair game for open commentary.

The allegedly First Amendment-loving left has a long and sordid history of trying to stifle free speech for whoever they deem to be their adversaries across the ideological and political aisle. Their latest tactic is to hide behind victims of tragedy so that the right will be theoretically coerced into submission and silence. After the putrid and choreographed theatrical antics of Cindy Sheehan, The Jersey Girls and Michael J. Fox, that dog just won't hunt anymore.

Rep. Deborah Heinrich of Madison, and naturally, a Democrat, testified in a public hearing at the Capitol on March 13th. In the course of her testimony, supporting legislation to force Catholic hospitals to dispense the "Plan B" abortifacient pill to rape victims, Heinrich revealed a personal and tragic story of being raped while she was a freshman in college. The New Haven Register ran with Heinrich's story on the front page of the March 14th edition. Heinrich's ordeal clearly warrants sympathy, but in this situation, not silence.

Contrary to leftist belief, Plan B, AKA: "The Morning After Pill" is an abortifacient as well as being a contraceptive. While the pill can block fertilization, it can also kill an already created embryo by impeding implantation. To the loony left, that fact might be worth dog squat in human terms, but if we were referring to the eggs from some endangered bird, the green-loving libs would have us skinned alive.

These purveyors of underhanded tricks are applying other tactics from their tattered, yellowed playbook as well. Last year, this bill, when defeated was called "An act concerning emergency health care for sexual assault victims." Now, on the second try, it is suddenly, "An act concerning compassionate care for sexual assault victims." Gag! When debate fails, resort to emotion. This craftfully worded bill is akin to many previous to it on both the state and federal levels, in which the title is specifically loaded to produce a conspicuously desired, knee-jerk emotional response, much like the entrapping riddle, "How many times per week do you beat your wife?"

Debate a liberal and you can always tell when they start sucking wind. (Or just watch an egg-timer.) They either personally attack you, try to appeal to your immediate emotions (instead of long-range logic) or try to divert your focus by changing the subject. None of this drivel is new, and the shenanigans of hiding behind perceived taboos like exploited (self or otherwise) victims is just one more cheap ploy when the chamber is empty and the Kool-Aid mentality excuses the ends justifying the means. But they don't.

Plan B is now legally available over the counter in pharmacies. It should be taken within 72 hours, which gives the intended consumer plenty of time to acquire it. Of the four Catholic hospitals in this state, each is located in the same city as a secular hospital, and thus far, no one has been able to cite any examples of any rape victim being refused this so-called "treatment," so the instances are rare, so rare that they do not warrant the intrusion of religious liberty any more than they do the taking of human life. The Catholic hospitals have also said that when warranted, referrals to other providers will be made to rape victims seeking the Plan B pill. The same "compassionate" people who would advocate sparing a rapist the death penalty and springing him from prison early to go back out and again ply his trade unto society would prefer killing an innocent and vulnerable baby who did nothing to deserve the death sentence. Yes, that's right. I said "baby." As long as you people are carrying live "fetuses" to term so that you can stab them in the back of the skull and suck out their brain through a tube while they are partially emerged from the birth canal then I can call a living, developing embryo a "baby." You nauseating hypocritical angels of compassion, and especially you pro-abortion ghouls with licenses to wear lab coats and who dare call yourselves "doctors" set that stage, not me. Furthermore, what woman, seeking either contraception or an abortion would realistically go to a Catholic hospital in the first place? That's like going to a seafood restaurant and complaining there aren't enough cuts of steak listed on the menu. Has it occurred to anyone yet that perhaps that is why no rape victim has ever been denied Plan B at a Catholic hospital?

Not much has changed in this abysmal state of tyranny in the past 300 + years. What colonial Puritans did to Catholics (as well as other religious faiths) back then is being carried out by radical Democrats onto Catholics today. This is nothing but religious persecution. The secular socialists, frothing at the mouth in desperation to get this bill passed, want it passed regardless if Catholic hospitals accept state funding or not, as per section 5b(3) of this bill's (SB 1343) full text. So this has nothing to do with "compassionate care." It's nothing but outright lies and poorly veiled religious persecution, pushed by the culture of death crowd. Ironically, it was religious persecution in Connecticut that prompted newly inaugurated President Thomas Jefferson to cite "the (wall of) separation of Church and State" to the oppressed Danbury Baptists. Later, a liberal Supreme Court Justice, misinterpreting that phrase in a school bussing case involving New Jersey Catholic school students in the 1950's further contorted Jefferson's meaning of religious freedom, not religious persecution, and the modern day flower children have carried that lopsided torch ever since. The same shallow, liberal hypocrites who wish to push this culture of death down the throats of practicing Catholics would never stand for a law mandating that they keep firearms in their homes. What's the difference? In popular liberal parlance, the word, "tolerance" suddenly comes to mind.

Nice try, Rep. Heinrich, et al, but let us not hide issues behind tissues and mistake tears for blood, apples for oranges, abortion for rape, and deep, seething hatred for religion as (Gag, again!) "compassionate care." There are several variations of rape. Some have nothing to do with a sexual act but all involve the abuse of power. Don't hide behind a bulls eye and tell me I can't throw darts when you are lying to me and undermining my faith and willfully endangering the most vulnerable of our citizens while you sanctimoniously sit there in your elected seat and falsely pontificate to all your constituents while collecting the public dime and knowingly besmirching the public trust behind manipulated camouflage of victimhood for purposes of feigned feminist agenda. Why don't you also so zealously share with your feminist friends the severity of possible side effects from the Plan B pill, or is that (not-so-public) tale a little too "compassionate" for this very "compassionate" legislation for victims of sexual assault? (What was that I was saying before about liberals stifling free speech?) Rapists commit heinous crimes, not their offspring, and rapists, not their offspring, nor any religious institution deemed as "prey in season" should be punished for the crimes of rapists.

The vast majority of hospitals in this state will gladly offer the desired infanticide du'jour for those who seek it. While Catholic-bashing is rapidly surpassing UCONN Huskies Basketball as this state's favorite pastime, let's at least try to keep our eye on the ball as to who the real demons of society are, here in God's troubled little acre. That category would include, but is not limited to criminals, and in some cases, certain legislators, but to paraphrase Mark Twain when opining on a similar subject, "…but I repeat myself."

My heart and prayers go out to you for what you endured, Rep. Heinrich. But I have news for you lady, if you want to shut this pro-life Catholic up, you damn well better martyr me. Pack a lunch!