Op-ed: 
New York's Descent Into Hell 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“With the signing of this bill, we are sending a clear message that whatever happens in Washington, women in New York will always have the fundamental right to control their own body.”
- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on his signing the bill that legalized abortion for any reason up to birth

It's murder...cold-blooded and oh so calculated murder...there is no other way to say it. And it's murder of the most unspeakable kind for mothers are not supposed to kill their children. We women are supposed to be our children's nurturers as much as our men are supposed to be their protectors, and yet somehow the laws of both God and nature have been upended to be used against the most helpless amongst us...babies...babies in-utero who have no chance to fight back...full-term babies now being denied their chance at life.

And so it seems that abortion has morphed into the outright slaughter of “the unborn” with New York State leading the way by now allowing a mother to legally end the life of the child she is carrying up until the very day...up until the very minute...that child is to be born. Unimaginable and unspeakable in its horrors, the mere thought of a woman...any woman...even entertaining such an idea makes me sick to my stomach.

So whether the pro-abortion crowd likes it or not this newest abomination...this new law...reeks of the horrors of Nazi Germany when babies and children were thrown into the ovens...some while still alive.

And serious questions must now be raised...questions such as have we as a country...as a society...really sunk so low as to allow third trimester, full-term, viable babies to be so easily disposed of as if they were but pieces of trash? Have we become so morally bankrupt that an act of pure evil has women...and some men...cheering this evil on as yet another supposed win for womanhood and reproductive rights?

The answer to both those questions in New York State is sadly yes, and it became so with Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent signing into law a new abortion bill called the “Reproductive Health Act”...a law which allows women to terminate a pregnancy of a ready-to-be born baby because said baby is now not deemed a “person” or a “human being” until it has been born alive. Remember this critical definition as I will get back to it in a bit for this definition can hold the key to repealing this murderous law.

So as it now stands, said full-term baby can be be legally injected in-utero with poison so that when the mother does deliver she will knowingly be delivering a dead child, and it's this new law that has allowed her...and of course her doctor/abortionist...to commit murder.

And so New York State, the very state that already aborts babies at twice the national average...has just crossed over into becoming our country's gateway to hell.

So exactly what does New York's new law...the “Reproductive Health Act”...state as compared to New York's previous abortion law? Basically, this new law goes beyond “Roe v. Wade” as it allows "unborn" babies to be aborted even when the U.S. Supreme Court has said states may restrict abortions. Late-term abortions...abortions that were illegal in New York...would now be allowed, and even those who are not licensed medical doctors would be allowed to perform them. And then there's this most horrific little detail...if a baby somehow survives the attempts to murder it...and many do...and is then born alive, the previous section of New York's now former abortion law where it stated that efforts must be made to care for the child have been removed, leaving the baby to die on its own or by the abortionist severing its spinal cord while still alive. 
 
Abortion on demand...murder most proud...with no holds barred exceptions it seems.

And so this writer...one who still believes that abortion in four key circumstances alone must remain as law... circumstances such as rape, incest, when a baby has zero chance of survival once born, and when the life of the mother is in immediate jeopardy...now finds myself unequivocally siding with those who take to the streets to protest the “killing fields” known as abortion. And I do so because I know that what Andrew Cuomo just signed into law is morally, ethically, and legally wrong.

From the day I heard my first baby's heartbeat; from the day I felt that first kick...a flutter actually...and from the day I saw the first sonogram pictures of the life growing inside of me, I knew this life would forever be part of my heart...a life I would protect with every fiber of my being for to even think of ending my baby's life would surely be the death of me. And I would hope that any mother would feel the same way.

Sadly, however, we now find ourselves living in times when right is wrong and wrong is right...when a human life can be easily discarded at whim for selfish, self-serving reasons alone. For that reason and of course for political expediency as this new law is nothing but the left's dangling the ability to commit murder in the hopes in garners Democrats more women's votes. Pandering of the worst kind is what Cuomo and his ilk are doing, but most unsettling is that they're getting those votes what with the lefts numbers and actions always seeming to silence our pro-life voices, after all they have the media aiding their endeavors.

And America's “unborn” children literally cannot fight back while they silently scream in agony as they die by the inhumane hands of those charged to “do no harm.” And while those once mothers become heroes in the eyes of the left we on the right must shoulder a bit of the blame for those babies deaths for we have become enablers of sorts because we are not trying hard enough to save these innocent children's lives. How so...because we allow outwardly pro-abortion sorts to be elected time and time again as our pro-life message gets drowned out not just by those on the left but by those who while championing life make this battle solely about God and morality instead of about the law.

Those on our side need to understand that fighting to overturn “Roe v. Wade” is not now nor will it ever be an attainable realty for precedence has been set. And even though the Supreme Court now leans decidedly to the right, these “originalist” justices will not overturn a law where precedence has been set. However, they might be willing to amend “Roe v. Wade” somewhat while at the same time throwing the issue of abortion back to the states where it always belonged, and where it should have stayed. 
 
So back to New York State it goes where the legalities or lack thereof of the “Reproductive Health Act” can be the very way and means by which to get this most vile of laws rescinded.

And how can that be accomplished...by pulling apart the very words of the law itself... throwing back at the pro-abortion lawmakers the illegalities and contradictions buried within this new law. One example can be seen at the very beginning of this article where I quoted Governor Cuomo's words that thanks to this new law women will now have a right to “fundamentally control their own bodies.”

However, there is a major flaw in that statement for once a woman is pregnant with a viable baby her body is not hers alone but is the "host" of someone else's body as well. Technically, while our bodies do belong to ourselves the life growing inside a woman's body is not hers, but is a life she invited to live within her by the simple act of her having sex. And while that life cannot live independently of hers until a certain point in its parasitic relationship with its mother "host," it is still a life separate from hers and a life worthy of being lived.

One can look at this in a more direct no holds barred way as well...if a woman is going to murder her “unborn” child so late in a pregnancy as the “Reproductive Health Act” would allow, why not give birth to the child and give it up for adoption and make a few bucks for being that child's “host.” That would be a win-win all the way around as the baby would get a loving home while the mother would get dollars to spend on who knows what...selfish person that she is for I cannot imagine anything but selfishness being the driving force behind murdering your child so late in the game...while at the same time denying her place of abortion the ability to sell her baby's body parts and keep all the profits.

In a perverted way this does make a bit of sense and would allow the clause regarding third trimester abortion to be amended where everyone is happy...especially the baby...or even possibly to be rescinded. Well maybe not everyone would be happy as the murdering abortionist loses a client and bucks in his or her pocket...a big plus I'd say.

And here's another example of the “Reproductive Health Act” being awash in double-speak. While this new law appears on the surface to restrict late-term abortions, the law actually contradicts itself with its adding of a “mental health exception” for abortions after 24 weeks. This exception actually gives women permission to abort their "unborn" babies up to nine months of pregnancy...as in a full-term, deliverable, and viable child...for any reason the mother deems appropriate, including her age, economic and social status, and emotional factors with no specificity required. Simply, this new law gives a mother the right to murder her unwanted child no matter that its existence poses absolutely no physical risk to her maternal health at all.

So why is this exception even a part of the “Reproductive Health Act”...simply to allow New York's killing of babies to go on...murder and the selling of baby parts rakes in big bucks after all.

 

But herein, I believe, lies the legal key to repealing this abomination of a law. Remember back to when I said this new law changes the legal definition of what defines a “person”...of what defines a “human being”...as to mean one who is born alive...well with that being the case if an aborted baby still somehow manages to be born alive...as many do...with medical treatment now legally allowed to be withheld and with the abortionist now being able to legally severe the spinal cord of any aborted baby thus immediately killing that born alive “person”...then that baby's death whether it be by state sanctioned neglect or by a violent life ending action by one who swore to “do no harm”...than that baby's death is indeed premeditated murder in the first degree. 

And why...because that baby was sentenced to death before it was born alive by its very own mother with sentence now being carried out by a willing accomplice. Therefore, that baby's death becomes a crime deemed punishable in the eyes of the law...thus rendering the law illegal.

But the bottom line is this, New York's “Reproductive Health Act” is not only pure evil but it poses serious dangers to the very women who are heralding this bill as a step forward for womanhood, which it is not. Oblivious to the fact that this bill now removes protections from illegal abortions, thus allowing cheap back alley abortions with the high risk of maternal death to again become the norm.

Also, these women seem to ignore the fact that now allowed is a woman's abusive partner, parents, and others the right not to face charges for illegally killing an unborn baby even if that baby is but one day or less away from being born...even if the mother wants to keep the very child they force her to abort.

And while this bill amounts to both moral and legally sanctioned depravity at its worst, that depravity continued on with New Yorkers taking to the streets to celebrate the now totally sanctioned killing of the “unborn.” And sort of like with the Biblical golden calf, Governor Andrew Cuomo and crew staged one final act of overt in-your-face depravity as he had the 400-foot spire of One World Trade Center lit up in pink to honor the women of New York's right to kill their "unborn" children. And so the very ground upon which 3,000 Americans were murdered on a sunny day back in September of 2001, now has the distinction of being used to herald the murder of the most innocent amongst us.

Sad isn't it, but then what can you expect from the very state that will not allow convicted killers to be put to death, but will allow babies to be aborted up until the day of their birth. I truly hope Governor Andrew Cuomo can sleep at night what with the thousands of baby's deaths that will now directly lie on his head alone. He could have refused to sign this bill, but he didn't. Instead he rejoiced in it and did so for political gain...may God in His mercy forgive him...I know I never will.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed:

On Abortion

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Author's note: this article contains graphic images of aborted babies because only by seeing this nightmare can one truly understand the horror that is abortion.

By now we all know that Supreme Court Justice Anthony McLeod Kennedy will officially retire at the end of July bringing his thirty years on the bench to an end. Nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan in 1987, Kennedy was sworn in on February 18, 1988. And while Justice Kennedy has been a staunch conservative on our all important Second Amendment rights, he has shown himself to be more socially liberal regarding gay rights, gay marriage, and abortion rights as he voted with the left side of the High Court on these issues...issues that really belonged solely with the states, should have stayed with the states or been relegated back to the states.

In other words, Justice Kennedy has been the “swing vote” with us never really knowing on whose side of an issue his vote would be cast. And this uncertainty made Kennedy the most important justice on the bench.

And while Kennedy's pro-gay votes brought consternation from some mainstream conservatives as well as expected from the uber religious far right, Kennedy's decisions were grounded in constitutional law alone...meaning his vote was cast as it should be whether some liked it or not.

But as much of a hot-button issue as gay rights and gay marriage was then, it will be seen as a cake-walk compared to the brouhaha we will now find ourselves embroiled in as overturning Roe v. Wade has become the calling card of the pro-life movement being fuel on with the announcing of Justice Kennedy's retirement. An ongoing issue always hovering in the background, the right to abortion has divided this country since 1973 when Roe v. Wade* became the law of our land after the High Court ruled that the constitutional rights to “privacy and liberty” protected a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy, and that access to abortion is a “fundamental right” that states could only regulate (before fetal viability) if there was a “compelling state interest.”

And while Roe v. Wade was long the law by the very time Justice Kennedy took his place on the bench, he showed himself to play both sides of the proverbial coin, if you will, when it came to the issue of abortion. Voting with the left side of the court to uphold abortion rights in several later day key cases including the landmark 1992 ruling Planned Parenthood v. Casey (a decision which changed the legal standard by which restrictions on abortion are evaluated), Kennedy stated in his decision that while abortion does fall within the “liberty” protected by the Constitution, he also found at the same time that states may “enact persuasive measures which favor childbirth over abortion, even if those measures do not further a health interest.” This meant that a state could limit women’s access to abortion, as long as it did not place an “undue burden” on her ability to “terminate a pregnancy.”

And Kennedy also sided with the left side of the High Court in the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, which overturned a Texas law that placed additional health regulations on clinics that perform abortions.

But then, just a few short weeks ago, Justice Kennedy proved the power of his swing vote when this time he sided with the conservative majority in NIFLA v. Becerra. In his opinion that compared California’s requirements for crisis-pregnancy centers to the free-speech restrictions imposed by authoritarian regimes. And Kennedy rightfully based this decision upon his interpreting the words of the Constitution...as it should be...instead of advocating his personal Roman Catholic anti-abortion beliefs from the bench.

And while his first two decisions made Kennedy at least somewhat palatable to both the left and the pro-abortion sorts, his third decision was a harbinger of doom for the left...for the Democrats...were now forced to face the harsh reality that elections do indeed have consequences and that Kennedy's retirement affords his replacement being the choice of President Donald Trump and not the choice of the woman they still to this day believe was denied the presidency she claimed she was entitled to.

In other words 'We the People' and America win yet again and we ain't tired of winning yet.

So while we in the end...and I say in the end because Democrats have already stated that they will fight anyone Trump nominates...another constitutional conservative, most likely in the vein of Trump's first appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch, will be seated on the bench tipping it further to the right as in six to three not five to four as it stands now. But know that no matter how hard many conservatives and pro-lifers will try to overturn Roe v. Wade it will not be easy to do, because even though several pro-life groups have already crafted “texts” that help pro-life state legislators continue to push the boundaries of legal abortion restrictions in their states, all these “texts” do is create a “framework” for the states to set their individual state restrictions on abortion while in no way overturning Roe v. Wade itself. 

And besides, any challenge to Roe v. Wade would need to work its way through the lower courts first, which could take years before the Supreme Court would even get the chance to decide whether to revisit the case...if they even decided to do so...or they could simply send it back to the states for them to preserve abortion at the state level with a termination of pregnancy date being written into their state's individual laws or do away with abortions being allowed in their given state altogether.

And then there's the fact that as per a recent poll by the highly respected Kaiser Family Foundation a full 67 percent of all registered voters do not want Roe v. Wade overturned, and surprisingly 43 percent of registered Republican voters also want Roe v. Wade upheld, and that's something Republican congresspersons dare not espouse in public for fear of heavy backlash by the uber religious far-right. But most importantly these numbers mean that it's not only Democrats that still want the right to abortion but that almost half of Republicans do as well although their voices are continuously drowned out by the said uber religious far-right.

Now when you add in that there is no state in the entire country where support for banning all abortions reaches even 25 percent, as per a fairly recent Data for Progress analysis of Cooperative Congressional Election Studies, one can see that except for the uber religious far-right raising their voices against all abortions, abortion must remain an option for women but...and this is critical...but with certain caveats put into place.

And so with numbers proving the case for Roe v. Wade not being overturned but amended...and I personally believe it does need amending...said amending must not be based upon religious beliefs...as religious beliefs are a dime a dozen...but on medical ethics and true biological science alone. How so...let's start with a few key facts... proven indisputable scientific facts that I personally have been espousing for years.

Fact one: a human being cannot live without a heartbeat whether it exists as a fetus inside the womb or as a baby independent of the womb. A fetus whose heart does not start to beat will be miscarried...natures way of 'correcting itself' if you will. And with a fetus' heart not starting to beat until day 18** of a pregnancy this means that before then what is growing inside the mother is parasitic in nature and not capable of independent life. And so technically day 18 is when life begins with the critical start of a beating heart and not at the time of conception. On day 18 the fetus becomes a soon to be viable baby...with survival actually being possible at 22 weeks gestation with medical intervention...and therefore should no longer to be aborted past day 18 except, I believe, in four instances, which I will soon tell you.

And while I have been saying for years that the heartbeat is one of the best ways to amend Roe v. Wade, only fairly recently have others jumped on board with this. In fact, on May 8th of this year, Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill that would prohibit abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected but with a six week time frame for said detection to take place, which is weeks after the baby's heart has actually started beating. And while it is still one of the most restrictive laws of its kind in the U.S., Iowa's state supreme court determined that the then in place 72-hour waiting period to reconsider an abortion was a violation of the “right to equal protection and due process” under the Iowa Constitution with it now being removed from the bill Governor Reynolds signed.

Also, back in January of 2017, Iowa Rep. Steve King introduced the Heartbeat Protection Act of 2017, which would have amended the federal criminal code to make it a crime for a physician to knowingly perform an abortion without determining whether the fetus had a detectable heartbeat and without informing the mother of the results. And while said bill provided an exception for an abortion that is necessary to save the life of the mother, it also stated that any physician who performs a prohibited abortion be subject to criminal penalties. However, this bill to date has gone nowhere.

Fact two: once day 18 is reached and the baby's heart starts to beat, I believe abortion should no longer be an option except in these critical four instances: rape, incest, if the pregnancy means the life of the mother, or if the baby is so medically “abnormal” that it stands little to no chance of surviving once born or if its life would be so seriously medically compromised that said life would be one of sheer agony and pain. A life consisting of what amounts to never ending torture is really no life at all.

Fact three: Late term abortions of healthy viable babies must never be performed as that is murder...chargeable murder...I cannot say it any plainer than that.

Fact four: the so-called 'morning after' pill must be sold over the counter in all 50 states for those stupid...yes stupid...enough to have unprotected sex in this day of almost unlimited contraceptive choices. And with the fact that said 'morning-after' pill only works within a small 72-hour time frame after having unprotected sex...as in the conception stage...it does not abort a further along pregnancy. And isn't it better to lose a mass of cells than a baby whose heart has started to beat...I would certainly think so.

Abortion is not birth control, especially after the heart starts to beat, and it must never be used as birth control...with those who perform late-term abortions (sometimes referred to as partial birth abortions) being held accountable of murder...along with the mother who allowed for such an abortion to take place. And if by some miracle a late-term baby just happens to survive the proven to be painful abortion “procedure”...and there are more of those babies then the media wants us to know...medical intervention must be performed immediately to give that little baby a chance at life...a chance to be adopted into a loving family...not left to die on a cold steel table or tossed into a can as refuge to be thrown out with the day's garbage. And let's not even go into the unspeakable horror that is Planned Parenthood with its selling of aborted baby parts...for those people there is a special place in hell.

But if applied in amending Roe v. Wade, the above stated four simple facts could make this law a bit more acceptable while at the same time still being protective of a women's constitutionally legal right to choose. Yet women should choose wisely for there are serious caveats and consequences attached...which should be okay for some...after all nothing in life is without caveats or consequences...a truth we should all know.
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* As of January 2018, as per the National Right to Life Committee, there have been an estimated 60,069,971 abortions since the Supreme Court made Roe v. Wade the law of the land in 1973.

** Day 18 after unprotected sex allows for a leeway of up to five days to take a pregnancy test if a woman's period is late. Today's pregnancy tests are sensitive enough to confirm a pregnancy as early as one day late allowing time to abort before the fetus' heart starts to beat (and life begins) if that's what the woman wants.

Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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