1710 There Are Costs to Government-enabled Abortion
The United States has managed to reach three milestones in the battle between life and death.
The good news first. Abortions are at an all-time annual low of 926,190 in 2014 from a high of over 1.6 million in 1990 (http://www.nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf). Between 2003 and 2012, abortion rates dropped 40.4% among 15-19-year-olds, 24.4% for the 20-24-year-old bracket and a little over 10% women 25-29 years old (http://www.lifenews.com/2016/01/14/58586256-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973/ ).
The rest of the story is the bad news. In approximately six months, Americans will have reached 60 million baby mark – dead babies. The abortion industry is disposing of about 1,750 children every day and this year we have allowed about 33,000 infants (http://www.numberofabortions.com/ ) after 4 months of age in the womb to be dismembered by suction, blade or forceps.
Milestone three belongs to a series of three stories which received almost no national attention. It represents a decent by the government into a new level of moral decay and political abuse. In August, Oregon became the first state in the union to begin providing free abortions for all women residing in the state regardless of citizenship status. Late-term abortion advocate Governer Kate Brown celebrated signing the “Reproductive Health Equity Act”. In complete defiance of at least four federal statutes, the Church Amendments, the Public Health Services Act, the Weldon Amendment, and provisions within Obamacare, the law requires all insurance providers to cover all abortions at 100% to include Medicaid and the state’s Catholic health care provider.
In late September, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Pratt issued a permanent injunction against Indiana’s “Sex-Selective and Disability Abortion Ban”. In her 22-page decision, she stated that “the right to a pre-viability abortion is categorical” regardless of what the motivation would be. In essence, her folly opens the door for defective human pre-elimination.
Finally, on September 28th, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner followed Oregon’s lead. His signature expanded abortion coverage under Medicaid and the state’s employee insurance program. With no apparent conscience regarding potential lives lost, he justified his decision on the basis of economic availability.
There are practical implications of these moves which abortion advocates seem to either be oblivious to or are willing to bury for an idolatrous loyalty to the god of choice. Minority Americans should be outraged. In terms of lost children, the rate for African-Americans is 27. 0 per 1,000, for Hispanics 13.8 per 1,000, and for all other minorities 15.0 per 1,000. The abortion rate for whites is 7.2 per 1,000. Clearly the evil of abortion targets minorities. Now it can be free for many thousands of them.
It sounds crass to say, but abortion costs our nation in dollars and cents as well. We are literally killing our financial security. Children are consumers who demand goods and services from whole sections of the economy from the time they are conceived. They are the future labor force, our future pool of innovators, professionals, and producers. According to the Social Security Administration, its most basic problem of funding rests on demographics. Economist Jacqueline Kasun found that even a child raised on welfare will give back in taxes alone around 3.7 times the investment of services, food, housing etc. ( https://www.nrlc.org/archive/news/2001/NRL01/laura.html )
Most of all, these new government moves plunge citizens under it sway into an abyss that represents a willful contribution to the accelerating destruction of the family and of life itself, the most fundamental building blocks of society. During the 2015 World Congress of Families IV, economist John D. Mueller documented the impact of abortion on society at large. He found a 90% relationship between the legalization of abortion worldwide and the rise in crime rates. His research documented how abortion was responsible for the current retreat from marriage and how fertility rates take a plunge as a result of that destruction.
For the abortion industry, life is life unless it is a pre-born human which hasn’t reached a certain place on the calendar and hasn’t breathed yet. We have now reached the point in this country where, having been able to save lives at levels not seen in decades, governments are now stepping up to halt that good. I do not understand what kind of conscience that takes.
“We were created to live all of life before the face of God, knowing that nothing in life is secular or separated from the sight of God because all of life is sacred. To live otherwise is sacrilege.” (Mark Driscoll & Gerry Breshears, “Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe”, pg 116)