February is the month of love, and Valentine's Day is its culmination. This is a day we dedicate to the people we love the most, our parents, our wives, lovers, children, our pets, etc. On this day we reflect on the meaning of love. But when I think of love on a State level, and/or national level, I am saddened because New York State last month approved another version of a late term abortion law- the most horrific one so far. Last January 22nd, on the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, our governor signed into law the Reproductive Health Act, or RHA- certainly not an act of love.
This law drew the rage from many Catholics, including me, the bishop of Albany and cardinal Dolan. Why? Because this law will endanger even more children and mothers than ever before. According to Human Coalition, a pro-life organization, here are some basic facts about the HRA;
1. The HRA legalizes abortion until the moment of birth but is not the only state to have done so. In fact, six other states plus Washington, D.C., also allow abortion until birth: Alaska, Colorado, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, & Vermont.
2. The passage of the RHA was celebrated by the abortion movement. It was cheered and applauded and publicly celebrated in New York. And our governor lit up all major NY Sites.
3. Abortion is now legal in New York through all nine months of pregnancy on-demand for essentially any reason.
4. New York no longer recognizes a human being as a person until after he or she has been born. Once again, instead of being valued for simply being human, abortion activists continue to rely on the ambiguous and discriminatory label of “personhood” in order to justify killing an entire class of human beings. Humans have killed other humans throughout history because of race, gender, size, color, religion, geography, social class, and a host of other traits. Person hood is simply the latest discrimination factor and the current favorite of the abortion industry. But even with that egregious application of the person hood discrimination label, children who survive abortion and are born are not protected by the law.
5. It removes legal protections that once ensured that viable babies who survived abortion would be given medical treatment. The bill reflects a pure, unadulterated hatred of children in the womb. But does the bill even protect women? Hardly. Here's why.
6. The RHA says that certain non-physicians can now commit abortions in New York. What happened to giving women very best medical care for their abortions? Are we seeing a return to those back alley abortions that we heard about so many years ago?
7. It also repeals New York laws that punish criminals who harm women in an attempt to kill their preborn children, leaving the mothers of wanted children to mourn without recourse to the state. New York became the home of the first version of a Planned Parenthood clinic over one hundred years ago and has led the abortion movement for decades. New York City is, by a large margin, the most abortion-dense area in the entire United States. And, according to the city’s own documentation, more African-American children are aborted than born alive in NYC. In fact, more than half of Black babies in New York are already aborted. The the most dangerous place in New York City for a black baby is actually the womb. And New York just celebrated this advancement of the culture of death with applause and pink lights. The leading cause of death in America is the killing of children in the womb, and New York continues to promote and advance this culture of death. Since 1974, 61MILLION AMERICAN CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ABORTED, hence have died since that Supreme Court decision.
So, I have two questions for those who support these abortion laws;
1. Why does the Democratic Party keep on pushing abortion when there are many other solutions? Like: ABSTINENCE, BIRTH CONTROL, ADOPTION and the EDUCATION of RESPECT/DIGNITY of human life?
2. Why don't you support and push the above options that are non-violent, humane, and morally acceptable by everyone?
I think that no human being, in his/her right mind, would dare have their dog and/or any other pet (abort it's puppies at the very end of its gestati,on/pregnancy). So, why did our NY State government allow this outrage, immoral and gruesome act to become law? I think this whis law is another symptom of the lack of love in our political leaders who think that they are doing a good thing by killing babies in the mother's womb! When in fact they're not!
People with decency, and/or a speck of morality, cannot and will not accept this law! I will never support radical and inhumane abortion agenda- that many democratic leaders at all levels of government have been undertaking for a long time now. This late term abortion law is the last straw!
It is clear that many NY State lawmakers have lost all kind of human decency and forgotten that there’s a God who will ask for an explanation and accountability of these immoral acts.
I hope and pray that this law will be overturned, because it is simply inhuman, highly immoral and an horrendous act! An act of violence- not an act of love.
I also encourage everyone to speak up and let our politi leaders that the RHA is unacceptable by any human standards.
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