By Fay Maricelli
Posted 6/27/13
OP-ED
Well, thank the good Lord, Texans can rest easy! Women who cannot be responsible for their actions still have the option of “taking control” of a bad situation by simply eliminating a life PAST 20 weeks. Yes, it’s true – a proposed bill which was designed to ensure that the physician performing an abortion had active admitting privileges to hospitals and emergency rooms, provided the patient with phone numbers of the physician, personnel employed by the physician, and the medical facility where the services would be performed, along with access to the woman’s medical records should the need arise for emergency care due to complications from the procedure, has now been successfully killed by an angry mob of women who saw the bill as “restrictive”. Now, how these women consider emergency medical care “restrictive” – especially when it comes to the health of a baby – and even their own health, truly exceeds the boundaries of intelligent reasoning.
I do not claim to be “holier than thou”, but it’s not hard to figure out that there are reasons that humans were not put in charge of special operations; we have faulty wiring, and our thought processes do not always help us to make the correct decisions. No, most of the decisions we make are extremely biased, and of course, are only what we want rather than what is right and good in the eyes of our Creator. And although we were given “free will”, we have tendencies to push as hard and as far as we possibly can.
So, Wendy Davis, summoned all her hot air and spewed selfishness for 11 hours. That is 11 hours of self-righteous whining, opportunistic cries of “poor-pitiful-me”, grandstanding over the fact that she grew up in a single-parent household, then found herself divorced at 19 years of age and also with a child. Big deal! Millions of people have survived single-parent households and have gone on to prosper, amazingly, drawing strength from the single parent that raised them – not using the situation as a crutch to justify a desire to kill an unwanted child. Why the unruly screaming mob of women could not see what she was doing for what it really was only shows a serious lack of accountability among so many of my gender who believe they are owed something in this life, rather than diligently working to overcome what life gives them. And just when we thought we had come so far!
For someone who has accomplished so much in her life, does she really believe that denying a child the right to live gives her any special privileges? Among Democrats, Davis has become known as a “fighter for women’s health and women’s issues”, but I am still trying to understand how what she has done figures in as a victory.
In her own words, she says, “I’m rising on the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of Texans who are being ignored; these voices have been silenced by a governor who made blind partisanship and personal political ambition the priority of our state.”
The irony of that statement is deplorable, if not ridiculous. How does one “give voice to thousands” while silencing the voices of those who cannot speak for themselves?
Ms. Davis, I hope your sleep is interrupted every night when, each time you try to dream, you only hear the screams of those you have silenced.