By Judie Brown
The transitioning from principle to political gamesmanship is in many ways as bad and as deadly as the gender transition debates currently in the news.
Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, of Arlington, Virginia, teaches this regarding gender transition: “So-called ‘transitioning’ might change a person’s appearance and physical traits (hormones, breasts, genitalia, etc.) but does not in fact change the truth of the person’s identity as male or female, a truth reflected in every cell of the body. Indeed, no amount of ‘masculinizing’ or ‘feminizing’ hormones or surgery can make a man into a woman, or a woman into a man.”
In truth, a man is always a man, and a woman is always a woman. These are simple lessons from the Author of Life.
But pro-life political transitioning is quite another matter.
We know that a distinctly unique human being begins at the existence of her first cell within the body of her mother. Once a baby is created, he is always and undeniably a human being. Thus we should be inspired to defend every single person based on science, philosophy, and the word of God.
In the political world of the pro-life pragmatist, however, the aforementioned proof seems to have been set adrift in favor of political maneuvering. Let’s look at the example of a Texas law purported to stop the sale of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. Such pills can kill a preborn child at any point during her first weeks of life.
One would therefore surmise that the Texas law would protect all of these people. But that would be wrong. There are exceptions. Further, the Woman and Child Protection Act states (Subchapter C Section 171A.151:d) that legal action may not be taken “against a woman for using, obtaining, or seeking to obtain abortion-inducing drugs to abort or attempt to abort her unborn child.”
Or, in plain English the law really means, “Go ahead, ladies. Stuff your face with pills and kill your babies. You’re not complicit.”
This prompts us to point out a simple truth about this Texas debacle. While women are allegedly protected, many children have not only lost their personhood but are still discarded at will. Yet God knows their names, and He sees the evil that prompts mothers to chemically assault their own babies, denying them life without an apparent pang of conscience.
Regardless of politics, the abortion pill is nothing more or less than stealthy murder. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy recently told Congress that his department is preparing a full report that will expose the many dangers of these drugs that hurt women and kill their babies. But we wonder if the secretary will address the fate of the babies who have died because of those drugs.
Pope Francis reminded us of the stark truth when he said, “Doctors who do this are—allow me the word—hitmen. They are hitmen. . . . And on this you cannot argue. You are killing a human life.”
Today we can add expectant mothers to that group as they too become hitmen, poisoning their children to death with pills.
Such moral blindness is akin to the soldiers in war who kill innocents and then turn a blind eye to the deaths occurring at their own hands for the sake of pyrrhic victories. There is no moral legitimacy in such acts designed to take the lives of innocent people.
The transition from respect for the dignity of the human being to a belief that preborn children are expendable is not just ignorant, it’s monstrous.