September 1, 2023
GUEST POST: News that Indiana’s most recently passed pro-life laws survived their day in court and the attacks of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood means that more mothers and their preborn infants have legal protections in place. But Students for Life Action and Hoosier volunteers will again be protesting because even the best laws are useless if they are not enforced.
The law, of course, has never stood in the way of the progressive left doing whatever it wants. Society being victimized by criminals is as much as a disgrace as an ineffectual legal system that is weakened by design in some cases – see the Soros funded prosecutors letting crime paralyze American cities. Thankfully, the rule of law still protects the innocent (sometimes).
But that relies on enforcement from a strong and integrous legal apparatus. Indiana could face their first test in this regard, as recent undercover journalism work conducted by Clifton French at Real News Michiana found medical staff allegedly offering illegal in-home abortions. An earlier Students for Life of America blog reported:
“The report of this finding includes two recorded phone calls between the reporter and the employee. In the first interaction, RNM reporter Clifton French reportedly called the facility at 3:39 p.m. on after being tipped off that it was closing. Posing as “Randall Fisher,” an 8-week pregnant woman who was transgender, he attempted to schedule an appointment. Instead of being told that wasn’t possible, however, due to the newly effectual law, he was promised a call back later by a woman named “Bridgette.
Around three hours later, Bridgette allegedly called “Fisher” back on her personal cell phone and offered to sell him Chemical Abortion Pills from her home for $500. She told him, “At home, at my house, I got everything you need… everything you was going to get at the office, I got it at home…This is strictly between me and you now you know, because…I’m not supposed to be doing this because it’s illegal.”
Facing extinction in Indiana, the abortion industrial complex is doing what it does best:
- Ignoring the laws and moving underground to provide even more dangerous, illegal services in non-taxable cash transactions with zero accountability (which tends to go very poorly.)
- Making excuses about pro-life laws exasperating infant mortality rates, though it’s possible that killing children before they are born does fix this.
- Moving out of state or going just across state lines. It’s pleasing to see that progressives have finally admitted that the 10th Amendment isn’t so bad after all, provided it’s not for something constitutional like firearms ownership.
- Arguing that doctors will not enter into care in states that prevent abortions because “do no harm” also means “abandon an entire state because if I can’t perform a violent and immoral act for cash, then practicing medicine is wrong, actually.”
As ever, the pro-abortion position is such that if you dry it out, you can fertilize a farmer’s field. No one has a constitutional right to an abortion and under U.S. law, murder is illegal.
Yet, whether these pro-abortion entities leave the state or not, those still trying to operate inside of Indiana face a reality they cannot change. And now the law must be enforced.
We call on Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears to do his job. If he won’t, Governor Eric Holcomb needs to take a page from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and remove those who can’t or won’t do their jobs.
States like Indiana can lead the way and show other pro-life legislatures how this is done. Likewise, Indiana’s legislature can step forward to provide a national blueprint on federal policies that are fearlessly pro-life.
Ryan Mears: we will see you on Saturday. To sign up and learn more about our enforcement rally, click HERE.