By Judie Brown
If you recall Mary Poppins’ lovely song “A Spoonful of Sugar,” you know that it is wise advice to sweeten the taste buds when using sour medicine. A similar concept is used today but in a tragic manner.
I was reminded of this when I learned that some pro-life folks are actually working to urge President-Elect Trump to restrict the killing of the innocent preborn children in our nation rather than eliminate it entirely. This line of thinking has become prominent among politically active pro-life types, calling to mind the once overwhelming position that pro-life people would never settle for. And that is, as March for Life founder Nellie J. Gray would say, “a little bit of abortion.”
After all, since it is clear that abortion is an act of killing, one wonders how any honest person could be satisfied to embrace a position that permits the bloody act in the first place. One abortion equals one death of a person. Knowing this, we find it terribly unsettling that anyone in our pro-life family would even consider public advocacy for the grim practice. And yet, here we are.
On the other side of this coin, abortion advocates are frothing. For example, some health experts are warning that under the leadership of Donald Trump, drastic actions could be taken to debilitate the contraceptive and abortion cartel’s lifeline to tax dollars and other income as well.
This has created a run on the market for morning-after pills, which of course serve as abortion pills if a child has been created. While Plan B and others with levonorgestrel are available over the counter, ella (ulipristal acetate) requires a prescription. According to Amazon’s website, to get this through Amazon, all a woman needs to do is arrange a video or audio visit—any time of the day—and the pills can be either delivered to her home or sent to her local pharmacy.
Next, we look at what is going on in the state of Kentucky, which had an abortion trigger law on the books. So when the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision came down, that law was once again enacted. We note that the law in question says that a physician may “perform a medical procedure necessary in reasonable medical judgment to prevent the death or substantial risk of death due to a physical condition, or to prevent the serious, permanent impairment of a life-sustaining organ of a pregnant woman.”
At first glance this may sound like a strict law prohibiting most abortion, but the fine print is another matter. A physician committed to aborting a baby can always find a loophole. This is so because if a medical professional is adept at killing the preborn, he or she is already willing to deceive his own eyes into believing that abortion is not a death sentence for a human being.
The trigger law has prompted a pregnant mother to sue the state. According to ABC News, the suit “claims that Kentucky laws blocking abortions violate the plaintiff’s constitutional rights to privacy and self-determination. It asks that both state laws be struck down by a judge in Jefferson County Circuit Court. The woman, a state resident identified by the pseudonym Mary Poe to protect her privacy, is about seven weeks pregnant, the suit said. She wants to terminate her pregnancy but cannot legally do so in Kentucky.”
The spoonful of murder is the contrived right to privacy, a legal term that has been used to foster decriminalization of abortion for more than 50 years. So while nothing new is really happening, media fearmongering is instigating moral outrage and abortion zealotry in exactly the same way it always has.
This is an exemplar of a spoonful of murder, a deadly symptom of a godless society where morality is becoming as rare as the mythical unicorn.