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CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Who’d have thunk that the Supreme Court striking down Roe versus Wade would actually be good news for the pro-abortion crowd?
There are 12 states where Republicans who control the legislature and the governorship have passed ‘heartbeat’ bills-which ban abortions. Three other states have passed restrictions beyond the first trimester. But in almost every other state, the abortion issue has been used to beat-up pro-life candidates. You’ve probably heard the deceptive commercial where a woman claims to have been carrying a non-viable child in utero. She claimed that she had to leave the state to terminate her pregnancy. In every state where abortion rights has been put up for a referendum, the pro-abortion side has won.
I am pro-life. I would like every child that is conceived to be born and to have a life. Here’s what I think is reasonable on the abortion issue: I could not force a woman to is a victim of rape or incest to carry her rapists baby. If she has the strength and courage to do so, I am in awe of her. If an unborn baby is not medically viable, I would not deny a woman an abortion. But these are extreme cases on the fringe of the abortion debate. Most, but not all pregnancies, will result in a successful birth.
The truth is that the abortion industry, all across the country, churns on even after Roe versus Wade. Women anywhere can quietly end a pregnancy by ordering Mifepristone through the mail. You and I would never know.
This tells me an important point. The political debate over abortion is actually a small part of the fight for life. A change in the human heart – our conscience – must come first. Until our collective morality is that it’s wrong to snuff out a human life, there will always be medical abortions and woman who travel to Illinois and Minnesota where a pregnancy can legally be terminated just days before delivery. We should find that horrific, and we don’t.
Here is what should be self-evident in the abortion debate. A woman is the vessel from which new life comes forth. “My body, my choice” is fundamentally false. For nine blessed months, a woman shares her body with another. To argue that her wishes are the only ones that matter is simply not true.
Chris Conley
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