A Fly In The Ointment South Dakota’s fatal flaw in outlawing abortion
By Dan Holman The Covenant News ~ March 18, 2006
Abortion and birth control have much in common. They both seek to prevent the birth of a child. The same arguments used to justify abortion are used to justify birth control.
Some birth control acts as an abortifacient. An abortifacient prevents newly conceived life from implanting in the womb. The baby is spontaneously aborted. The pill, the I.U.D., Norplant, Depo-Provera, and Emergency Contraception, are among the most commonly used abortifacients.
There is a cultural mentality that accepts abortion at early stages of human development. Yet “A person is a person no matter how small” Dr. Seuss. The murder of a child is actually more heinous than the murder of an adult. A child is more helpless and innocent; he has more life taken from him.
The highest law of our land, the Constitution, states in its preamble, it applies to us “and our posterity”.
The Declaration of Independence, our founding document, states in principle that “all men are created equal.”
Jesus said, "Leave the children alone, and don't try to keep them from coming to Me, because the kingdom of heaven is made up of people like this." Matthew 19:14 In God’s economy children are equal in worth to adults.
Birth control encourages sexual immorality. Prior to 1936 birth control was a Black Market item.
We cannot in principle outlaw abortion without outlawing birth control. Outlawing birth control is not a radical idea. The 1965 Griswold vs. Connecticut decision struck down birth control laws; Griswold created a “Right of Privacy”, the underpinning of Roe vs. Wade.
At the suggestion of outlawing birth control, feminist sirens warn of government intrusion into their bedrooms. They should have such a fear in their hearts.
But birth control laws were seldom enforced. These laws served as a social standard.
We see the same principal in scripture. Adultery and Sodomy are punishable by death (Leviticus 20: 10-13), yet we read nothing of sodomites or adulterers being put to death. Good kings merely exiled sodomites. 1 kings 15:12; 22:46
Birth control laws hindered distribution. Today Planned Parenthood receives hundreds of millions of tax dollars every year to distribute birth control. Planned Parenthood should go underground when birth control is outlawed.
Sirens warn: Teen pregnancies will increase! But the very opposite should happen.
According to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, contraceptives have a collective failure rate of 54% http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html Birth control is risky! It is like playing Russian Roulette with a six shooter and 3 live rounds; it gives people a false sense of security while encouraging them to play. Once this false security is taken away, women should not so readily engage in sex.
I graduated from high school in 1965, the year Griswold became law. Most of us graduated as virgins. Today, sex education is taught from kindergarten through 12th grade while policeman patrol the halls.
We did not need sex education to learn about sex, my father explained to me; “WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE MARRIED!”
South Dakota HR1215 forbids most but not all abortion; it is flawed because of exceptions for life of the mother and birth control abortifacients.
The Partial Birth Abortion legislation is fatally flawed because it outlaws only one abortion procedure; HR 1215 is flawed because it outlaws all abortion procedures but two.
It is difficult to argue humanity, worth, and equal protection when we justify exceptions for killing them. Abortion cannot be outlawed apart from a winning argument of equal protection under the law.