Back alley abortions, forever the pro-abortion rallying cry (as
in, “We will never go back to…”), are now the industry
standard. The secret abortions carried out decades ago
supposedly in great numbers by sketchy outfits and disreputable
characters in the long shadows of the city…are now what pass for
health care.
To wit, one Stephen Chase Brigham: Dr. Brigham is the
abortionist whose four-state abortion ring crumbled after a
botched abortion led to an investigation of his practices. Dr.
Brigham would bring his late-term clients from his home base in
New Jersey, where laws regulating abortion are comparatively
restrictive, to Maryland My Maryland, where anything goes…at any
gestational age, for any reason (as long as it’s called a
“health” reason.) He would dilate the cervix of a late-term
client in New Jersey, and then have the client drive to Elkton
(in Cecil County, Maryland) the following day where he’d finish
the job in a facility that could handle such gruesome murders,
in a town that doesn’t appear to have had any objections to his
presence, in a state that welcomes such businesses. (Maryland
has always boohooed itself as the weak sister in a sibling
rivalry of area pro-gambling states. But when it comes to
the sport of killing preborn baby girls and boys, Maryland is the conference champ.)
According to published reports, Dr. Brigham has served jail time
for fraud and been fined for failure to pay taxes. Throughout
his twenty-year career, he has faced disciplinary actions and
has had his medical license revoked by medical boards in several
different states. And in Maryland, he didn’t even have a
license to practice medicine, but he sure made our state his
home—and his castle, with a wide moat of public apathy and high
walls of legislative protections that shielded him from scrutiny
while he carried out his wicked deeds within.
But here’s the thing: Dr. Brigham is by no means an anomaly.
Day after day, you can read reports of women being rushed from
abortion clinics to emergency rooms. Across our country, at an
ever-increasing rate, unlicensed and licensed abortion
practitioners alike are severely injuring and killing women
inside clinic walls.
Take, as another example,
Dr. Rapin Osathanondh, an abortionist who was also a research
assistant at the Harvard School of Public Health. (Is “public
health” the new euphemism for eugenics?) In September, he was
sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to
involuntary manslaughter in the case of a 22-year-old woman who
died in 2007 a few hours after he had aborted her 13-week-old
preborn baby.
And when they’re not killing, they’re up to other mischief,
felony-style. Feliciano Rios, an abortionist from Southern
California, pled guilty in July 2009 to perjury and insurance
fraud. But he’s back in business now.
These stories are so regular that they’d almost be laughable if
it weren’t for the lives destroyed. Think hard. Have you heard
any condemnation of these disreputable characters from NARAL
Pro-Choice America? Of course not. In NARAL’s perverse brain,
crisis pregnancy centers are the frauds because they don’t
promote all of the “options”. But how many CPC directors
are murderers, manslaughterers, perjurers, and tax cheats?
Yeah, zero!
So, how are Maryland’s ruling pro-abortion politicians going to
play out the Brigham embarrassment? Will it have any impact on
how abortion is regulated in Maryland? I can only guess. There
may be talk right now behind closed doors about reviews of
abortion providers’ records and inspections of clinic premises.
However, I can tell you that they won’t follow this through,
because NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland, with its usual sinister cool,
is reassuring its allies that everything is honky-dory just the
way it is. “Elkton was a fluke—and, come to think of it, New
Jersey’s fault, really.” That’s exactly what O’Malley,
Mikulski, Miller, and the rest of Maryland’s immoral majority
want to hear, because their political careers have been funded
by and sustained with blood money. Maryland’s pro-aborts do not
want Brigham’s case to cause even the slightest public
commotion, for fear of loosening the one rock that sets off a
landslide of anti-abortion regulations in this state. If that
were to happen, they’d no longer be kings of the hill, and the
terrain of their horrid careers would be laid bare. So, they,
as well as many national figures, continue to be mouthpieces for
the devil’s lie, “Safe, Legal, and Rare.”
Safe? Abortion has never been safe for the baby, and it’s
becoming increasingly and shockingly unsafe for the mother. In
Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court elaborated on the
“health” exception established in Roe v. Wade.
Post-viability abortions are permitted if they are in the
patient’s “physical, emotional, psychological, [and] familial”
best interests. The pernicious irony is that abortion attacks
women (and society) in these very ways. Women are suffering
physically at the hands of abortionists, being injured and
killed in alarming numbers. The evidence is indisputable that
women also suffer emotionally and psychologically; the vast
majority of post-abortive women experience many dark years of
inner turmoil and broken lives, regretting their choices for a
lifetime. And the American family unit cannot survive if the
law of the land continues to define freedom as the right for
Daddy and Mommy to turn against their own and kill Baby.
Legal? I would venture to guess that there is more illegality
surrounding legal abortion now than there ever was when
abortions were officially illegal. There are more Dr. Brighams
out there than you can shake a stick at, skirting state laws in
order to make as much money as they can. But these aren’t just
a few random bad apples. As Lila Rose’s undercover exposés have
shown, Planned Parenthood is a gigantic polluted orchard that
has been covering up rapes of young girls for who-knows-how-long
so that it wouldn’t lose business. They abort a 14-year-old’s
baby and quietly send her back to her abuser, thereby
establishing a sure-fire repeat customer. At the same time,
they use the media to excoriate anyone who won’t even support
abortion in cases of rape and incest.
Rare? Abortion was relatively rare, once, but that was
before the infamous decision of January 22, 1973.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (formerly Planned
Parenthood’s research arm), the number of annual abortions has
been over the million mark since 1975, and was more than 1.5
million per year from 1980 – 1992. Is it any consolation that
only 1.2 million baby girls and boys are hacked to pieces each
year now?
Even to the secular thinker, this disconnect between propaganda
and reality shouldn’t make sense. Why hasn’t legalized abortion
made good on its promises? Why is abortion unsafe, illegal, and
commonplace? The answer is that evil is never satisfied just to
knock you a few steps off the narrow way; it is determined to
drag you down to the deepest bowels of earthly and eternal hell.
So, how should the pro-life community respond? The injury to
Dr. Brigham’s young patient is not a strategic victory
for our side, no matter how much bad press the other side
receives. We are saddened for her pain but are not at all
surprised to see once again that the abortion industry is
staffed by the absolute dregs of the medical profession.
In Annapolis, at the very least we should push for regulations
that requires abortion clinics to report to a bi-partisan
committee every detail of their dirty business, including
(but not limited to) how many babies they kill, the age of those
babies, the age of every client whom they see, and the reasons
for the abortions. We must tell any timid pro-life
representative whom we’ve put into office that now is the time
to act boldly. For the simple principle of presenting
abortion-minded women with all of the facts, every legislator,
pro-life or other, should support a law that requires
abortionists to offer their clients the opportunity to see a
sonogram before an abortion would take place. And I am also for
confronting Maryland’s citizens with the personhood of preborn
children, until all understand that there is no difference
between the back alley abortion and the abortion inside the
clinic.
October 14, 2010
