California has declared that it wants to be a “sanctuary” for abortion. The group that the state has formed of abortion clinics, advocates, and government officials to ensure that dark future is called the California Future of Abortion Council, or CA FAB Council. Someone should have checked the acronym. What’s fab about it? Fabulously devoid of the moral sense Bill Clinton at least acknowledged with his “safe, legal, and rare” language. Long ago, Democratic advocates of abortion did not celebrate abortion — they at least bowed in their rhetoric to the fact that no one aspires to have an abortion. Not so much anymore.
One of the FAB priorities is to “meaningfully address misinformation and disinformation and ensure that access to medically accurate, culturally relevant, and inclusive education about abortion and access to care is widely and equitably available.” Would that instead we prioritized informed consent — that a pregnant woman or girl knows what her options are besides abortion. We’ve got to a point in our culture where abortion often appears to be preferred — by medicine, education, law, finances, families. The pressure is often too great even for a young woman who wants to be a mother, who knows she’s already a mother. Pretending that abortion is mere health care and necessary for women’s life in this world is lying to young people and insisting on repeating the mistakes of the last half century. Women deserve better than abortion: That’s one of the pleas from the pro-life movement in its attempt to save lives and rally America to its senses. Our young people deserve better from their elders, too. President Joe Biden, who was once pro-life, should be wiser than the most radical elements of his party. Instead, he is joining in their rampage on innocence and innocents.
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