Bishop Joseph V. Adamec
Random Comments
The mass media, as well as members
of Congress, are referring to the exclusion of abortion coverage in the health
care reform bills as if it was a simple appendectomy. A certain segment of our
female population is especially outraged, calling it a “right to their bodies.”
However, there is another “body” to be considered.
The New York Times recently
ran an editorial, which lamented that women won the legal right to an abortion
nearly four decades ago, yet to get the votes of pro-life Democrats, the House
of Representatives amended its health-care legislation to ban abortion coverage
in any insurance plan subsidized with taxpayer dollars. Let’s be honest and say
what this really says.
What The New York Times was
actually saying in its editorial in “real time” is: “Women won a legal right nearly
four decades ago to have their unborn children killed, yet to get the votes of
pro-life Democrats, the House of Representatives amended its health-care
legislation to ban coverage of such killings in any insurance plan subsidized
with taxpayer dollars.” I certainly would hope so!
I am not aware of our tax dollars
paying any individual to have someone kill another human being that they would
rather not have around. In fact, there would be much to-do about it in the mass
media and prosecution would be certain.
Have you ever seen a sonogram of
an unborn child! It looks human. It acts human. As a matter of fact, some
European scientists discovered that babies cry in a way that imitates their
mother’s speech, which they would have heard before birth. So, an unborn infant
learns like a human. Why do we not speak of it as a human?