By Kathy Ostrowski, legislative director, Kansans for Life
It is an overarching crime of “battery” for any medical procedure to be performed without the patient’s full and informed consent, except in the cases of true medical emergency and when the is patient mentally incompetent.
Yet abortion supporters want a permanent exception to be made for abortion decisions. They bristle at any law that allows breathing room for pregnant women and teens before rushing into an irreversible abortion and increasingly defend abortion as merely a way of “arranging your family,” without need of any state-supplied medical facts, thank-you.
In a constant war to limit choices for pregnant women, self-described pro-choicers oppose waiting periods and state-supplied right-to-know information about abortion. In Kansas, we have heard legislative testimony from women with pervasive psychological wounds from their abortions, especially those denied full medical information.
Some told of wrenching turmoil upon viewing ultrasounds of subsequent pregnancies- where’s the respect for those voices?
Instead, we have heard abortion lobbyists fight informed consent bills, railing that
costs of right-to-know services-and even legislative time spent considering such laws- are ruining the state economy,
replacement of the word ‘fetus’ with ‘unborn child’ in statute and in health department materials is unscientific, and
relevant pregnancy-related breast development risks be withheld from abortion-seekers.
In the pro-abortion world, maternal instinct is just an artificial construct imposed by a misogynist culture, and maternal bonding is a woman’s purely intellectual choice. Consider this abortion lobbyist’s comment today, deriding pre-nataldevelopment tools provided by the state:
“Of course the sonography video isn’t of “the developing child” so much as “a developing child”, but what the heck….it’s a cute little fetus and you should love it and pet it and cuddle it, okay?”
It takes a lot of bravado to claim to “speak for women” with such a flippant and disparaging attitude. Obviously, it’s meant to hide that true respect for women means allowing them to see and contemplate their living, unborn child and weigh the consequences of an abortion.
Women in Kansas are better respected, and assisted, with web-accessible state-issued medical information they otherwise would not receive inside abortion clinics.