By Judie Brown
Saint Thomas Aquinas once wrote, “The study of truth requires a considerable effort—which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge—despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”
This statement reflects the reason why so few are willing to follow the laws of God, desiring instead to seek the easy way, which denies truth in deference to ego. When this happens, human beings ignore that natural appetite for truth, preferring immediate bloodlust, which they believe solves their problems.
A case in point involves New York doctor Margaret Carpenter, founder of Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine. In a statement, the group commented, “It’s no secret the United States has a history of violence and harassment against abortion providers. Make no mistake, since Roe v. Wade was overturned, we’ve witnessed a disturbing pattern of interference with women’s rights. . . . This state-sponsored effort to prosecute a doctor providing safe and effective care should alarm everyone.”
The folly of our age is perfectly enunciated in those words that juxtapose the rights of women with the taking of the lives of their own children, as though only one person was involved in the act of abortion.
This incident motivated New York’s governor to take action to protect these abortion practitioners. According to CBS News, Governor Kathy
Hochul signed legislation enabling physicians prescribing abortion medication to ask pharmacies to print only their practices on the prescription label and withhold their personal names. The change takes effect immediately.
“Trying to have another level of protection for these doctors who are out there on the front lines, doing what they know is right, what they were trained to do. We must be there to support them,” the governor said at the bill signing.
Hochul, like so many in the cadre of preborn child abortion facilitators, views the execution of these babies as the right thing to do, given the overriding embrace of alleged women’s rights at the expense of the rights of every person from her first cell onward.
Responding to this latest folly, pro-life physicians have taken the lead in defending the human rights of the vulnerable. Dr. Christina Francis stated that “safe drugs don’t send one in 25 people to the emergency room.” And FOX News opined, “The removal of in-person visits is a major aspect of the more lax restrictions that people like Francis and Lile want to see reversed.”
But you see, whether it is the abortion pill, the morning after pill, or the birth control pill, human lives are at risk. One commentator notes that in the case of the New York physician who mailed abortion drugs to a woman in Louisiana, we are witnessing the breaking of new ground in the abortion wars.
Lest you think she may be right, please allow me to repeat a fact that is well known to us in these times: The truth, regardless of how well hidden, always has a way of springing up.
As recently as this past Wednesday, Aaron Kheriaty, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was quoted in the Catholic World Report. The article discusses the morning after pill and says that “even if taken soon after sexual intercourse, the drug can prevent a fertilized egg, which is already ‘a new human being,’ from attaching to the uterus, ensuring the ‘early embryo can’t survive.’” Kheriaty continued, “It’s long been known that the mechanism of action of the morning-after pill . . . is to produce an early abortion.”
And that is not all. This mechanism of action, like any other pill designed to allegedly end or prevent pregnancy, has a goal similar the heat-seeking missile the military uses in wartime.
The guided assault of that missile is the enemy. The guided assault of various abortion chemicals is an innocent baby perceived to be the enemy. In point of fact, she or he is a human person whose life has been deemed worthless, unwanted, or merely inconvenient.
The folly of our age is this murderous practice. When the appetite for truth is replaced by an unencumbered sexual appetite, nothing good will come of it.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.