Maybe We Should Break More Rules

 I have two articles today on the new Texas law that allows people to sue abortion providers for the act of providing abortions.  The serious one is by Fletch Daniels at the American Thinker entitled Abortion: The Animating Sacrament of the Left. The other, by Kurt Schlichter at Townhall.com talks about the "new rules" that the Left installed in our society, but that they are not happy with now they are being used against them.

First, let us understand that the act of deliberately killing a child in the womb is evil. You can put scientific sounding words around it to make it sound antiseptic, but make no mistake: once a sperm and an egg get together, a child is conceived. Given time, and assuming nothing interferes, that child will grow into person, like you. It can not be anything else. And also note, in case this wasn't obvious to everyone, but getting pregnant doesn't happen by accident.  Usually, a woman voluntarily has sex with a man.  A bit of discipline could have prevented it.

Fletch Daniels notes that the fervor with which the Left celebrates abortion is Satanic, and abortion is their central sacrament.

The Texas abortion law and the reaction to it has shone a spotlight on the fact that abortion is the primary animating force for the left, a sacrament of a sort that drives both their priorities and energy.

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It is always interesting to watch the conversion of a “conservative” to the leftist religion, which seems to happen somewhat regularly when weak principles collide with the cultural power and temptations of the left.

A key moment in the conversion of a former “conservative” involves showing fealty to the sacrament that binds together their new tribe, and they usually do it as loudly as possible to ensure that their new friends embrace them. This is why these “conservative” converts, ala Jennifer Rubin, usually sound even crazier than the long-time denizens of the left.

In what read like a parody, the Satantic Temple joined the fight. They apparently established an abortion ritual which the Texas law threatens. These Satanists see abortion as a form of worship that needs protecting.

In the letter they sent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, they wrote, “The battle for abortion rights is largely a battle of competing religious viewpoints, and our viewpoint is that the nonviable fetus is part of the impregnated host is fortunately protected under Religious Liberty laws.”

That “nonviable fetus” has a heartbeat at a bare minimum and is often fully viable at the time of abortion, suffering only from a mere few inches of geography that allows the baby’s life to be taken. One of the challenges the abortion movement has is that technology has advanced since 1973, making it nearly impossible to maintain the fiction that the choice they champion does not consist of the taking of a life. But, for the Satanists, this is a feature.

On one point, I would agree with them. There is very much a spiritual component to this discussion, which is why there is so much fervor on the left, a religious fervor that cannot be understood apart from the demonic influence that drives it.

Since we are talking about religion, Daniels doesn't make it explicit, but I will. That abortion is the central animating sacrament of the Left means they stand in direct opposition to Christ and the God of Abraham, the God of Israel, the God of Creation. One of the appellations of Jesus Christ is Lord of Life. You can not be a true Christian, and be in favor of abortion. Indeed, it was Christians who began outlawing abortion wherever they became the majority. But it also makes sense in that what species can survive that kills its own offspring? Yet the killing of children was the norm until Jesus entered history and changed the World.

Kurt Schlichter, who is always happy to irritate a Leftist, and the more irritating the better, writes:

You know, there was a time when I might have thought that the Texas legislature’s creative lawmaking that lets random people sue those facilitating abortions was against my principles. But that was before “principles” became nothing more than a cynical codeword designed to tie our hands as the libs pillaged through our society like a bunch of hopped-up Visigoths who just got into Hunter’s secret stash.

The new rule is that you use your power ruthlessly to defeat your opponent. And so, I’m totally comfortable with it. The Dems, not so much – this legislative suppository is shaped like a starfish and it ain’t going in easy.

Now, the best part about this whole imbroglio, besides that it might well close down the open season on babies that is a central sacrament of the pagan religion that is modern America liberalism, is how the Texas Solons shamelessly snagged it from the arsenal of anti-democratic tactics pioneered by the left. Here’s how governing should go, in the world that no longer exists that you learned about on Saturday morning TV’s Schoolhouse Rock. One of our elected legislators proposes a bill to do something, it gets debated, passed, signed by the chief executive and then challenged in court, where it should almost always be held constitutional. But that’s kind of a hassle, since a lot of the things Democrats want can’t get enough votes to pass. So, the democracy-loving Democrats eschewed democracy and decided they would sub-contract the dirty work to the courts. You know how people liked smoking, which they knew might well kill them? Why not use lawsuits to do indirectly what could not be done directly, i.e., properly? They kept at it until they found enough gullible jurors in gullible venues to shakedown the tobacco companies, mostly by pretending that puffers were shocked – shocked! – that smoking was sub-optimally healthy.

Again, note that Schlichter too recognizes that abortion seems to be a sacrament in a religion of evil.  But he also makes a great point that whenever conservatives take a page out of the Lefts playbook, they become apoplectic.  It is as if they were the only ones who could break the rules that we all originally agreed upon.  But if it makes them actually think instead of just "feel," then maybe we should try breaking some other rules.