30 Years Of Progress?
Thirty years ago this month, pro-abortion advocates hailed the Supreme Court decision of Roe v. Wade as progress for women of America.
Progress? The whole case was based on a lie, as we learned years later when Norma McCorvy came forward as Roe and exposed the truth behind the lie. And what did we gain? The right to end the life of our children. And the abortion industry has the right to perform abortions without educating the women on their options, without warning them of the increased risk to breast cancer, or without warning women of the psychological effects that have increased risk of suicide and drug abuse. There is no part of this that is “progress” for women.
Here in California, abortion has actually been legal since 1967, long before Roe v. Wade. Before that Supreme Court ruling, the states had the power to decide. Well, our state certainly led the nation on this issue. And, in that sense, there has been progress as in movement forward on a particular issue - but it sure isn’t positive. Just recently a pregnancy center in Northern California went to its regular MediCal meeting for organizations that participate. Although the pregnancy center services are free, they participate so they may receive referrals and stay involved in a system that would otherwise direct women straight to an abortion facility.
The nurse manager I was speaking to was reminding me that if a girl in crisis pregnancy wants an abortion, they can use the AFDC, Aid for Dependent Children, to rush the girl through the system to have her covered with emergency MediCal within 3 days. But, if the girl without medical coverage is pregnant and wants to carry the child to term either to parent or place for adoption, acquiring MediCal can take 6 weeks to 3 months.
She went on to tell me that their center recently had a young teen in crisis pregnancy that had a brain tumor - which would seem to me to be an emergency. But, they couldn’t get her covered quickly so she could begin seeing a doctor because she had decided to carry the baby to term. It is heartbreaking to work in a system that is inherently encouraging abortion just because of the system itself, not just moral decisions of what should she do, but what does she have to do because our system works against Life at every step.
In this state sponsored meeting for MediCal and social services from the state, the nurse, new to the system, had to keep stopping their meeting to ask what various acronyms meant. “They used them so fluidly, I felt stupid asking. Then when I did, I was more appalled than ever!”
V.I.P. means Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy. Abortion S.C. means Sensitive Cases – underage teens that don’t want their parents to know they are getting an abortion and need help getting off their high school or junior high campus or other “extra services” with discretion so families don’t find out.
Progress? That’s progress we as women and mothers, just don’t need.