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Miscarriage of justice
by Judie Brown
Released December 12, 2007
Commentary by Judie Brown
Last Thursday, I read a series of news reports that
brought me face to face with the tragic consequences of more than 30 years of
unabated abuse - of drugs, the English language and the preborn child. The
reports dealt with various situations, but all contain a common theme.
The first of these reports centered on a drug that is
legal in America, a drug belonging to the general class of birth control and/or
abortion drugs. The ongoing presence of these drugs in America’s medicine
cabinet is costing this nation a great deal. The news reports tell the
tale.
Manishkumar Patel is a man of some renown in Wisconsin.
He has been involved sexually with a woman who is not his wife and has, on at
least two occasions that we know about, used powdered RU-486, mixed into his
girlfriend’s food, to end the lives of preborn children he did not want. Patel
is not a poor man in the economic sense. However, he is a man who apparently has
little regard for the human dignity of persons in general, be it his wife, his
girlfriend or his preborn children.
In the wake of the grisly deaths of two innocent
children, the question arises as to how the man actually acquired the pills in
the first place. The news report said Patel is from India and is in the United
States on a green card. He has many contacts in India and asked one of them how
to end a pregnancy. The friend was able to supply the pills, so that Patel could
keep them on hand for “emergencies” such as the existence of the child being
carried by his girlfriend.
So how did the pills get into this country when it is
illegal to send drugs from one country to another? I think America’s problem
with illegal drugs coming across our borders in so many other instances answers
that question and we need not dwell on it here. But what we should be
considering is the manner in which one father was able, not once but twice, to
assure the death of his own child.
We normally hear of mothers who do not want their
children and thus arrange for their deaths in utero, but is it not rare for a
father to do this? I would suggest to you that it is not and that perhaps the
Patel case is but the tip of the iceberg in
America.
What Patel did to two of his own children, causing their
deaths by using an abortion drug that is legally protected in America, is almost
identical to what an abortionist does in doling out those pills to mothers who
want to bring about the death of their children. The only difference in Patel’s
situation is that it was not the mother who wanted the baby to die; it was the
father.
Manishkumar Patel has been criminally charged with
attempted first-degree intentional homicide of an unborn child. One news report
quoted court commissioner Brian Figy as calling the crime “devious, diabolical
and deceiving.” He set Patel’s bail at $750,000.
This is yet another chapter in the story of America’s
inability to deal honestly with the truth that a unique human person exists from
the instant his life begins at fertilization.
If the judicial system were to be perfectly honest rather
than “devious, diabolical and deceiving,” there would be a series of criminal
charges brought against doctors who kill preborn children for any reason during
pregnancy and with any instrument or chemical in their arsenal.
There would be multitudinous criminal charges brought
against pharmaceutical companies which continue to deny that their birth control
concoctions act as abortion-causing chemicals.
The courts would be filled with cases leveled against
associations of medical professionals and so-called women’s health groups that
have chosen to redefine when a pregnancy begins. The definition of “pregnancy”
was changed for the express purpose of not having to tell women that their birth
control method of choice is actually a killer of innocent children. Under this
deceptive definition, pregnancy begins when the new human being implants in the
mother’s womb; never mind the inconvenient fact that this brand new person’s
life actually began a week or so earlier at
fertilization.
There would also be lawsuit after lawsuit against the men
who so blithely go through their lives fulfilling their own sexual needs by
making certain that the female of their choice is properly using the chemical or
device that releases him from any culpability should a child come on the
scene.
These examples represent a cultural problem that exists
because of “devious, diabolical and deceiving” influences. But the justice
system in America consistently turns a blind eye on any of these crimes because,
after all, abortion and its progeny are legal in the United States of America.
Therefore, there is no crime.
That is precisely why, I fear, Manishkumar Patel will
probably get off scot free - or close to it. America’s judicial system
discriminates against an entire class of human beings and it does so
consistently, day in and day out, denying that the act of abortion takes the
life of an innocent child. So how tough can they really be on Patel? We shall
see.
In Virginia, on the same day that the Patel story erupted
in Wisconsin, we learned that Daniel Riase, who punched his girlfriend in the
stomach, thus causing the death of her preborn child, was sentenced to five
years in jail. What if the child had been two years old? Would his life have
been worth more? Would the killer have gotten life?
And what about the headline that told us there is no
reason to re-examine the chemicals in the Gardasil vaccine, even though 28
mothers have miscarried their babies after getting it? The Gardasil vaccine is
alleged to protect women from human papilloma virus. Are those 28 babies simply
the price those mothers had to pay for being chemically protected from a
sexually transmitted disease that would not occur at all if sexual relations
were not taking place?
The culture of death is “devious, diabolical and
deceiving.” The life of a preborn child in America has absolutely no value at
all. The lives of countless women who have used chemicals and devices to avoid
becoming mothers are of little concern as long as sexual gratification continues
to trump chastity and the truth never reaches the front pages of the newspapers
or the top of the news every night at six.
It’s hard for me to imagine the loss of even one innocent
child due to the malice of those who refuse to acknowledge that every person has
value from the instant his live begins. But it is even more disheartening to
realize that while you and I may be devastated to learn of the deaths Patel has
caused, or Riase has caused, or Gardasil has caused, an overwhelming percentage
of the people of this nation don’t know about it, don’t care about it and don’t
want to be inconvenienced by it.
Until the life of a single child prior to birth becomes
as important to every American as a Christmas shopping list, a bridge date or a
desire to satisfy every sexual whim, the body count will continue to
rise.
While these examples show how a miscarriage of justice is
a foregone conclusion, they also show why America’s pro-life population must be
more persistent, more insistent and more consistent in demanding that any
chemical, device or instrument that causes the death of an innocent human person
prior to birth must be banned and criminalized as quickly as
possible.
Release issued: 10 Dec 07
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