Saturday 23 August 2014

Inverse Naming and Shaming

New Anti-Abortion Database

A new tactic is being deployed in the struggle against state sanctioned killing of children.  A group in New Zealand is putting together a database of doctors and medical practitioners opposed to abortion.  This is a smart move.  As our knowledge of the humanness of the unborn child grows exponentially, medical practitioners are increasingly uneasy about abortion.  To persist in killing the unborn child requires some sort of over-arching ideology to justify the abhorrent practice.  Medical research alone just doesn't get you there any more.

An over-arching ideological cover to justify abortion can come from various directions.  Greenism, for example, rejoices in abortion because Greenism believes human beings are killing the planet.  The less of us the better.  Killing human beings whilst in the womb is, therefore, justified because it contributes to the greater good.  Doing evil that good may come has long been a seductive argument from the Serpent of old. Feminism provides another "greater good" argument.  Anything which curtails the life options of a woman (which pregnancy and childbirth certainly do) constitute the enslavement of women.  Therefore, abortion is necessary to maintain the human freedom rights of the female sex. The unborn victim, of course, does not get to vote. 

The struggle against this modern Molech-worship is long and difficult.  Every contribution helps.  Hence, we applaud the development of a database which publicly identifies those medical practitioners opposed to abortion.  This from the NZ Herald:

The database on the website My Decision, which opened on Sunday, lists dozens of medical professionals who are said to oppose abortion. The site's advocates say patients, as consumers, have a right to know who does not offer contraception or abortion referrals because of their moral or religious views.  Patients are being invited to add to the list - and practitioners are also being invited to add their own names. . . .


My Decision spokeswoman and reproductive rights activist Terry Bellamak said the database gave patients options to seek healthcare that met their needs. "From a consumer protection standpoint it makes sense for patients to know what their healthcare provider's stance is before they get in there prepared to make decisions." . . .

Right to Life NZ vice-president Chris O'Brien said conscientious objection was a fundamental right and he felt the site's purpose was to "name and shame". O'Brien said Right to Life did not make public lists of the names and practices of abortion providers.
We hope that in time the database will contain the names of many medical practitioners who conscientiously opposed abortion.  

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