Off the deep end: that’s where America’s pro-abortion forces have gone. Have you checked out their reaction to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s decision not to provide grants to Planned Parenthood? “Komen’s attack on abortion rights,” screamed a shrill editorial in the Feb. 2 edition of The Baltimore Sun. (Full disclosure: I used to write for the paper, but I have nothing against its editors or reporters. Too bad I can’t say the same about the Tribune Company, which owns The Baltimore Sun.)
What the headline of that one editorial shows is how completely unhinged some pro-abortionists get at the mere thought that somewhere in the nation, an unborn child might not be sucked down a tube. Whose right to an abortion has been “attacked” by Komen’s decision?
What woman, as a result of the Komen decision, can’t get an abortion today that she could have gotten before the decision was made?
And — this is the bottom line — isn’t this the Komen foundation’s money we’re talking about? Pro-abortionists act as if Planned Parenthood has a right to Komen’s money, which means they’ve crossed a very distinct line.
No longer are pro-abortionists dangerous to unborn children; they’re a danger to the rights of everybody else.
If Komen, a private foundation, is expected to provide funds to Planned Parenthood and every other pro-abortion group in the land, what’s to prevent the government from compelling the rest of us to pony up?
Actually, that’s precisely what pro-abortionists advocate: public funding for abortions. That means if Lady A meets Guy B and the two decide to have a sexual encounter that results in a pregnancy the woman wants to end, you and I have to pay for the consequences of that very private act.
That’s where pro-abortionists have been leading us since Jan. 22, 1973, the day of infamy that gave us the greatest misuse of judicial power in American history.
Seven Supreme Court justices did more than just strike down every state statute outlawing abortion. They forever severed the necessary ties that bound rights with responsibilities.
The result has been what pro-abortionists have longed for over these past 39 years: a consequence-free society where everyone pays for an individual’s transgressions except the individual, and where responsibilities take a back seat to newly created rights yanked out of the atmosphere.
The justices who wrote the Roe v. Wade decision rooted around in what they called the “penumbra” of the Constitution until they found a “right to privacy” that they then bestowed on the great unwashed.
In ensuing years, pro-abortionists have tried to move even those goal posts. The “right to privacy” morphed into “a woman’s right to choose.”
Now we hear talk of “abortion rights,” and of a pregnant female minor’s “right” not to notify her parents if she wants an abortion.
The plethora of invented rights just keep a-comin’, perhaps culminating in what we saw last week: the conviction of some that Planned Parenthood has a “right” to receive grants from the Komen foundation.
Komen honchos must have bought into this nonsense. They let themselves be bullied, kowtowed and intimidated into reversing their decision. Within days, they decided they would provide grants to Planned Parenthood after all. It was the most shameful display of caving in to political pressure we’ve seen in some time.
The only upside is this: the pro-abortion forces have exposed themselves for who they truly are. They don’t just want unlimited abortion on demand for women and female minors for whatever reason at any stage of a pregnancy.
They’ve shown that they feel they are entitled to anybody’s and everybody’s money to attain their ends.
Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane is a Pulitzer-nominated news and opinion journalist who has covered people and politics from Baltimore to the Sudan.
