“Relentless Evil
When abortion is your business, you do everything you can to keep the money flowing, including manipulate, deceive, coerce, and sue. The abortion industry and the Arizona Medical Association (ArMA) have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to continue abortions in Arizona in spite of state law prohibiting it. Sadly, the ArMA has embraced the lie that abortion is medical care, so much so it is joining the suit to ensure the legality of the destruction of human life.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Arizona Superior Court in Maricopa County makes the same failed claim used in a Pima County court last month. The abortion industry told the court in the suit that because the Arizona Legislature passed many laws over the past 50 years curtailing but not outlawing abortion, it was the lawmakers’ intent to keep abortion legal. Obviously, this argument ignores the fact that the Legislature could not outlaw abortion over the past 50 years because Roe forbade it. Instead, lawmakers passed every restriction allowable under the constraints of Roe to save as many lives as possible.
In fact, an Arizona court in early January 1973 upheld the pre-Roe law prohibiting abortion except to save the life of the mother as constitutional. That law – laboriously repeated as the “Territorial Law” or the “pre-statehood law” by pro-abortion activists including the news media – was very much in effect in 1973 when Roe was wrongly decided. In 1977, the Arizona Legislature recodified the law, making it very clear that lawmakers intended to keep the abortion prohibition on the books in the event the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturned Roe.
The suit goes on to claim that it is the court’s duty to “harmonize” the many abortion regulations enacted over the past 50 years and come up with a suitable new law. Of course, that would be the Legislature’s job, not the court’s, but the abortion industry will stop at nothing to advance its business of ending innocent life.
To that end, the industry is also scheming various workarounds to facilitate abortions without the risk of legal accountability. At least one Arizona abortion “clinic” is now reportedly giving pregnant women ultrasounds to determine gestational age, then facilitating a telehealth appointment with a California doctor, who then sends the abortion pills to a post office in a California/Arizona border town to be picked up by the expectant woman.
Another abortion “clinic” reportedly has been referring women to a doctor in another country with the abortion pills then being mailed to an Arizona woman from India. Still, others are raising funds to pay for women to travel to other states for abortions. One abortionist sends women to his facility in Las Vegas for abortions.
If ever you thought the abortion industry cared about women, this scheme proves it certainly does not. The abortion pill is four times more dangerous than a surgical abortion and must be taken within very specific parameters or it puts the woman’s life at risk as well as ending the unborn baby’s life.
The abortion pill was first limited to the seventh week of pregnancy, then the industry got it moved to 10 weeks, now they are using it up to 12 weeks gestational age, when an unborn baby is well along in development and poses serious risk to a mother who takes the pill. The risks include an emergency if the baby is too large to pass, hemorrhaging, infection if the abortion was not complete, and a potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy.
In Illinois, Planned Parenthood is using a 37-foot RV as a mobile abortion clinic that travels the state border allowing women from other states to cross and get an abortion.
Politicians Culpable
We cannot just blame the abortion industry. Many politicians pave the way for abortion clinics to thrive. Remember this when you fill out your ballot in this year’s general election. The Democratic party has cleared its rolls of any pro-life politicians and candidates. But some are more extreme than others.
Do not let the TV ads painting Senator Mark Kelly as moderate fool you. He has voted nearly in lockstep with the radical Democratic agenda, including embracing the abortion industry’s quest for unrestricted abortion up to the point of birth and at taxpayers' expense.
Arizona Governor candidate Katie Hobbs, Attorney General candidate Kris Mayes, and Maricopa County Attorney candidate Julie Gunnigle have all been endorsed by Planned Parenthood because they will help the abortion industry reach its goals if elected. Many of the Democratic candidates running for Arizona House and Senate have also embraced an extreme position on abortion, despite the fact a large majority of Americans and Arizonans do not support abortion up to birth – or even late-term abortion – and they oppose taxpayers footing the bill.
Mark Kelly voted for the extreme “Women’s Health Protection Act” which would have codified abortion into law and allowed abortion up to birth.
Katie Hobbs voted against caring for babies who survive an abortion attempt (SB 1367, 2017). She voted against limiting abortion when an unborn baby feels pain (HB 2036, 2012), and she refuses to put a limit on abortion.
Kris Mayes promised she would not uphold the current abortion law in Arizona if she becomes Attorney General.
Julie Gunnigle has promised the same if she becomes Maricopa County Attorney. She has been a rabid abortion supporter without limits.
You may have read in the news that Kari Lake changed her pro-life position during a recent radio interview. Listen here to the full interview and see for yourself she was quoting the pro-abortion supporters of the past who claimed: “abortion should be safe, rare, and legal.”
See all CAP Action endorsements for the 2022 general election here and get your personalized voter guide at azvoterguide.com.
ICYMI
- Read here how the American Medical Association (AMA) is asking the Department of Justice to target critics of irreversible gender drugs and surgeries.
- Read or listen here about the growing effort to alienate Christians.
- Read here about a growing effort to take children away from parents and “rehome” them with “gender-affirming” adults.”
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