Want to have a look at genuine evil? It’s rare that we get a chance. Revolutionary France’s 1793 “Law of Suspects,” our 1857 Dred Scott decision and Nazi Germany’s 1941 “Night and Fog” decree are historical examples. For a more contemporary take, try reading California bill AB 2223, now state law having been approved on September 27 by Governor Gavin Newsom, America’s new ambassador for abortion. Unfortunately for the soul of the Golden State, he seems as keen as ever on easing the way for killing unborn babies.
AB 2223 is a product of Assembly person Buffy Wicks, who represents Berkeley (surprise!) among other enclaves of leftist looniness in the Bay area. As the bill explains, its provisions rose from the issue of “reproductive justice,” a “framework” developed in 1994 “…to address the intersectional and multifactored issues that women of color and their families face in society.” So it’s all your doing, you unrepentant, misogynistic, white supremacist, you…
Blaming others for the evil they themselves do is everywhere and always a hallmark of leaders who have lost their moral compass. Or for those who never had one; it comes to the same thing.
The new law specifically forbids coroners from investigating or making findings in deaths of unborn children after 20 weeks’ gestation, negating current law. That means deaths through miscarriage, stillbirth, illegal abortion or other similar occurrences. No charges can be laid in these types of deaths. According to Section 7 of the bill, neither criminal nor civil penalties can be assessed for actions or omissions against anyone involved in “…pregnancy or actual, potential, or alleged pregnancy outcome, including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death due to causes that occurred in utero.” Beat a woman so badly she miscarries? Even if the child is born alive, toss it into the bushes to be eaten by coyotes. You’re not responsible if it dies. Botch a drug-induced self-abortion? No matter if the infant is breathing and crying; the cause occurred “in utero” so feel free to toss the baby in the trash and be done with it. In the eyes of California law, you’re blameless. That’s what “perinatal” means: up to 28 days before, and one to four weeks after, birth according to the Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary.
Better, if anyone accuses you of infanticide regardless of the letter of the law, you can sue them. If cops or social workers ask you what happened to the baby you were carrying, you can sue them, too. A civil penalty of $25,000 is set in the bill, plus “exemplary damages” without limit. This is California, after all.
Why was this monstrosity passed? Why was it even thought of? Why did 30 California Senators, 54 State representatives and a governor all think this bill not only acceptable, but appropriate and necessary?
They can’t all have been flummoxed by the introduction, with its word salad featuring the magic incantations of “intersectionality” and “equity.” There are worse and far more telling, reasons
This bill is a product of people who no longer see their fellow humans as possessing moral value. For the Pragmatists at the heart of Progressivism, people have value according to their function. They have economic value as producers or consumers. They have political value as voters. But they no longer have an intrinsic value in themselves. They are instead mere instrumentalities; tools to achieve a higher purpose. As such they can be used, abused, misdirected, mistreated, abandoned and even killed without a second thought. It is not they that count, but the purpose they serve, a purpose that is always one with the self-interest of Progressive leaders.
Even when the only service rendered is an unattended death.
The entire business is so foul, so wrongheaded that it brings to mind a quote from Thomas Jefferson. Though on another topic, it is entirely apropos here: “I tremble for my country,” Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia, “when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever…”
