By W.W. Wallace
Editorial exclusive to GCN Live.com
“The only thing in American culture that is considered to be both good and have rare is a steak.” – Dr. Alan Keyes, presidential candidate in 1996.
For years you have heard it said, “Abortion needs to be kept safe, legal and rare,” however with the recent news of murder indictments of a Philadelphia physician and his staff (multiple charges) gives more evidence to the fact that everything about this statement is false. Legalized abortion, as most lawmakers already know, was manufactured by judicial activism. “The Reproductive Healthcare Movement” created false data and false testimonies to achieve a new unconstitutional legal precedent.
One of the central legal arguments surrounding this act of social re-engineering has been medical safety for elective surgical abortion – both legal and illegal. Once again, history has proven this to be completely false. After 1967-73, most abortionists simply moved out from the back alley onto “main street”, and little has changed to help make surgical abortion any more safe than it was before Roe vs. Wade.
But aside from the medical risks from surgical abortion and the lack of regulation of its providers is the brazen hypocrisy from the reproductive health care movement for women’s safety.
In 1978, the Chicago Sun-Times launched an undercover investigation known as “The Abortion Profiteers” series. By 1983, state legislators had passed laws in Illinois to regulate abortion providers and require them to comply with the same safety regulations that every other out-patient surgical center had to provide for their patients.
After these safety regulations were passed into law, the American Civil Liberties Union (and other activist groups) challenged these regulations all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case known as Turnock vs. Ragsdale (1989).
Unfortunately, this case was never ruled on by the U.S. Supreme Court. Within just days before the court was to hear this case, a backroom court settlement (Consent Decree) was struck between the Illinois Attorney General and the ACLU. So after nearly 12 years of effort by the people of the state of Illinois and lawmakers to secure the safety of women’s lives, most of these regulations were simply thrown out, rewritten or placed under the supervision of a self-governing medical board that seldom acts on violations made by physicians.
The reproductive health care movement’s argument was that some of the businesses that provide elective abortion services for their clients could not afford additional costs, so some of these businesses would fail and there might be fewer businesses to provide these services for the poor. Remember, Turnock vs. Ragsdale dealt strictly with businesses that provided surgical abortions; it never brought a legal challenge to abortion itself.
The Ragsdale case never presented a challenge to legal abortion or to overturning Roe vs. Wade.
A central legal premise of Roe vs. Wade/Doe vs. Bolton (companion decision) is medical safety for women. This is the very thing that many in the reproductive health care movement have worked against for years, so that the dark realities of abortion could remain hidden from the general public and go unchecked. In reading from a legal challenge brought against the Illinois Attorney General’s settlement agreement in Ragsdale vs. Turnock, 7th. Dist. U.S. Appellate Court Judge Posner wrote “…a woman who suffers a medical injury as a result of the failure of an abortion clinic to comply with the statute should be able to use the violation to establish medical malpractice…” Sec. 47.
Was this a probable admission by this court, that it was abandoning the law, abandoning the state constitution and abandoning their obligation to protect woman’s safety?
The results of the 7th District Appellate Court ruling and settlement agreement were special exemptions for the abortion profiteers making medical malpractice and medical fraud more difficult to prosecute. We ought to ask radical feminists “how many more women must die from legal abortions in the U.S. before you act to save them? Since 1989 how many women have died or have been physically damaged at the hands of the abortion profiteers?”
One of the greatest media hoaxes of the 20th century is the reproductive health care movement’s concern for social justice & women’s safety.
I’ve been thinking about where this Philadelphia case could be going. Months from now there might be a call put forth to have some type of committee to sit down and work out a solution together. Well, that already happened 32 years ago with the Ragsdale case between Illinois state legislators and the abortion industry – long before any regulations were submitted to lawmakers. The result was that 12 years of the legislative process ended up at the bottom of a dumpster.
As for the exchange process of dialogue to resolution goes, the abortion industrial complex has no vested interest, no quarterly earnings, to suggest that self-imposed regulations would somehow increase their stock shareholders portfolio.
In other words, for anyone to seriously suggest that a corporation would intentionally put forth a plan to decrease their annual profit margin by one-third is anathema in America’s current political and economic climate. The groups that have profited from advocating abortion in the reproductive health care movement have no credibility left to address the safety of women anymore. End of story.
Let’s be clear about this one single issue: since 1989 all of your leaders put themselves on record. Had the Ragsdale case been heard in 1989, women’s lives would have been spared from the many criminal acts of medical malpractice that have plagued the abortion industry for years.
Abortion is not a right. It’s an industry, and non-profit organizations in reproductive health care that profit from government subsidies do so at the expense of women’s health and the many lives that are terminated from elective abortion.
As we consider the issues of women’s reproductive safety, medical malpractice, Medicaid fraud, health care fraud, entitlement fraud, and the hundreds of millions of tax dollars handed over to the reproductive health care movement each year, perhaps we need to be reminding our representatives in Congress to stop giving our money to these criminal enterprises that have such little regard for the law or women’s lives – but are passionate about their Title 10 and Title X funding or the next STD crisis they need to exploit for planet, for profit and oh yes…for the poor.
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W.W. Wallace is a student/writer and commentator on sociological trends, ethics, health and current events affecting our culture.