Yesterday the progressive bloc on the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that required (1) abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital not more than 30 miles away and (2) clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers. The 5-3 majority said these restrictions place an “undue burden” on women’s “right” to abortion.
We hear a lot of pious statements from the Left about “women’s health” when it comes to abortion, yet this decision, and the ghoulish celebrations that followed its announcement, expose that position as a lie. Never again should we give the defenders of Roe v. Wade the benefit of the doubt when it comes to “women’s health.”
They are not “pro-women’s health” in any meaningful sense, and they certainly do not wish to follow Hillary Clinton’s disingenuous formulation of making abortion “safe, legal, and rare.” They are pro-abortion, plain and simple.
About Stan Guthrie
Stan Guthrie is an editor at large for Christianity Today magazine and for the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. His latest book is God's Story in 66 Verses. He also is author of All that Jesus Asks: How His Questions Can Teach and Transform Us, Missions in the Third Millennium: 21 Key Trends for the 21st Century, and A Concise Guide to Bible Prophecy. He is co-author of The Sacrament of Evangelism. Besides authoring, writing, and editing books, Stan is a literary agent, bringing together good authors, good books, and good publishers.
Stan writes the monthly Priorities colum for BreakPoint.org. He has appeared on National Public Radio's Tell Me More, WGN's Milt Rosenberg program, and many Christian shows, including The Eric Metaxas Show and Moody Radio's New Day Florida. A licensed minister and an inspirational speaker, he served as moderator for the Christian Book Expo panel discussion, Does the God of Christianity Exist, and What Difference Does It Make?
Yesterday the progressive bloc on the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that required (1) abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital not more than 30 miles away and (2) clinics to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers. The 5-3 majority said these restrictions place an “undue burden” on women’s “right” to abortion.
