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Writer's pictureStephen Wynne

Butchery on the Ballot

The fate of America's children is in our hands


Pregnant woman in white shirt next to ballot box

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The moment has arrived, and the choice is now upon us: Trump or Harris; Christianity or Communism; renaissance or ruin.


On Tuesday, Americans head to the polls to cast their ballots in the most crucial election in US history.


Beyond nominating our next president, at the state level, tens of millions of Americans will make another choice on Nov. 5: life or death for their unborn children and grandchildren.


Abortion is on the ballot in ten states; Roe is dead, and the decision of whether to save, or sacrifice, the lives or the unborn is now a matter of majority vote.


The fate of America's children is now up to us.


DEATH THROUGH DECEPTION


The language of the abortion referendums is confusing; deliberately designed in such a way, pro-lifers warn, as to deceive voters into voting for these measures. A closer analysis of a few of the referendums illustrates their duplicitous nature.


Arizona


Voters in the Grand Canyon State will consider Proposition 139 – the Right to Abortion Initiative. If approved, the measure will enshrine a "fundamental right to abortion" in the state constitution.


"The State will not be able to interfere with this fundamental right before fetal viability unless it has a compelling reason and does so in the least restrictive way possible," according to the ballot language. Moreover, Proposition 139 declares:

"Throughout the pregnancy, both before and after fetal viability, the State will not be able to interfere with the good-faith judgment of a treating health care professional that an abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant individual. The State will not be able to penalize any person for aiding or assisting a pregnant individual in exercising the right to an abortion."

Proposition 139 is remarkably deceptive. First, it defines "fetal viability" loosely, characterizing it as "the point in the pregnancy when, in the good-faith judgment of a treating health care professional, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus."


In other words, Proposition 139 would empower any "health care professional" – that is, any abortionist – to determine viability, based on "good-faith judgment."


Moreover, its broadly worded "health" clause would allow an abortionist to proceed with termination even after the point of viability under the banner of mental or emotional wellbeing.


In other words, if an abortion-minded mother were to complain that carrying her baby to term would cause her anxiety, an abortionist could legally proceed with termination, conceivably at any point in the pregnancy.

  

Considering that the average abortion costs $600 and up, entrusting the fate of the unborn to the "good-faith judgment" of abortionists is deeply cynical. Money – even blood money – can be quite a motivator, and if Proposition 139 passes, Arizona's abortionists are sure to make a killing.


Florida


Residents of the Sunshine State will vote on Amendment 4 – the Amendment to Limit Government Interference with Abortion. If passed, the measure would alter the state constitution to radically curtail lawmakers' ability to protect unborn life. It declares:

"No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider. This amendment does not change the Legislature’s constitutional authority to require notification to a parent or guardian before a minor has an abortion."

Like that of Arizona's Proposition 139, the phrasing of Amendment 4 is deliberately deceptive.


Peering past the subterfuge, opponents point out that both "viability" and "healthcare provider" are left undefined; the latter term is so broad, in fact, that it could include non-medical staff at abortion facilities. They note, too, the ambiguity of "patient's health," warning the phrase could be interpreted to include "mental stress."


Foes say the term "notification" – couched inside language that seems to strengthen, rather than dilute, pro-life protections – is especially misleading. "Amendment 4 eliminates Florida's parental consent laws," they warn, "replacing 'consent' with 'notification' and making abortion the only medical procedure a minor could undergo without a parent's consent."


Missouri


Voters in the Show Me State – the first state to outlaw abortion after Roe v. Wade was overturned – will consider Amendment 3 – the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative. If approved, the measure will enshrine in the state constitution the "right to make and carry out decisions about all matters relating to reproductive health care, including but not limited to prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum care, birth control, abortion care, miscarriage care, and respectful birthing conditions."


In short, Amendment 3 would legalize abortion in Missouri for the entire 40-week term of pregnancy, up to the moment of birth. It would allow taxpayer-funded abortions in the Show Me State. The measure would add the phrase "pregnant person" instead of "woman" to the Missouri Constitution, and remove all parental notification and consent requirements, allowing minors to undergo an abortion without informing their parents or guardians. Furthermore, it would prevent women from suing if they or their baby are harmed during pregnancy or during an abortion.


"I can't imagine the good people of Missouri voting for this – I can't," journalist Bill O'Reilly said in early October when studying Amendment 3. "I have to go so far as to say any person who would support that amendment, I ... don't want to speak to. I would walk away. If you supported that, I would never talk to you again. And believe me, I'm an open-minded guy when it comes to politics, but this – this is Red China stuff."


Measures in seven other states – Amendment 79 in Colorado; Question 1 in Maryland; Constitutional Initiative 128 in Montana; Initiative 434 and Initiative 439 in Nebraska; Question 6 in Nevada; Proposal 1 in New York; and Constitutional Amendment G in South Dakota – are similarly confusing, owing to phrasing that obscures the full impact of what they will bring, if approved.


WARSAW: A WARNING FROM HISTORY


In the late summer of 1939, Poland was a Catholic powerhouse. Much as it is today, the nation was a standout – a bastion of faith and a beacon of hope for Christians across Europe, and beyond.


Yet, while the country teemed with tens of millions of faithful overall, Poland's soul was marred by a bloody blot.


Two decades earlier, the First World War had destroyed the final remnants of Christendom. Shocked at the savagery of the war; stunned by the enormity of its toll; by 1918, Europe had sunk into deep disillusionment, suffering a crisis of faith from which it has never recovered. In the years that followed, Satan swept in to make his mark upon the continent.


In Germany, Protestant Berlin plunged into dissolution, becoming infamous worldwide for its libertinism and sexual depravity.


In Russia, Orthodox Moscow renounced God, replacing the Cross with the hammer and sickle, and adorning itself in the crimson banners of the Communists.


Pressed between the two apostatizing powers was Poland, where churches were filled, and faith was flourishing. But even here, the diabolical was at work.


Following the end of the war, a shadow fell across the nation's capital, and by September 1939, Catholic Warsaw had degenerated into the abortion capital of Europe.


Though tens of millions of Poles remained faithful to God and to their unborn, the flourishing of abortion on such a scale – even illegally – was enough to help bring the hand of God down upon the country.


On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west. On Sept. 17, Stalin followed suit, sweeping in from the east. The invaders a laid waste to Warsaw and much of the rest of the country, and over the next five-and-half years, 6 million Poles – one out of every five – were killed.


Americans would do well to reflect on the annihilation of Warsaw – and of Poland, as a whole – as we head to the polls on Tuesday to decide the fate of the nation and the nation's unborn.


We would do well, also, to remember Deuteronomy 30:19, where God warns:


"I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live ...."


Writer, editor and producer Stephen Wynne has spent the past seven years covering, from a Catholic perspective, the latest developments in the Church, the nation and the world. Prior to his work in journalism, he spent eight years co-authoring “Repairing the Breach,” a book examining the war of worldviews between Christianity and Darwinism. A Show-Me State native, he holds a BA in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University and an Executive MBA from the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.


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