A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart. (Proverbs 21:2)
You would think Texas hates pregnant women facing health or life endangerment. CNN reported:
…a Texas woman has been battling the state to terminate her high-risk pregnancy…her doctors say threatens her life and future fertility.
Texas Democrats continue sounding the alarm:
Right now, Kate Cox is living in an all-American nightmare and MAGA Republican extremists are to blame. It is a draconian reality where a woman is forced to flee the state of Texas after being denied a life-saving abortion by the state Supreme Court.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, representing Cox, has controlled the message. In each story about her, Cox’s health and life hang in the balance. Reality is different.
Cox passed the 20th week of the pregnancy. Her child is diagnosed with “trisomy 18,” a genetic condition where there is an extra 18th chromosome. This condition occurs in 1 out of every 2,500 pregnancies. About 95% of those children die in the womb. Of the survivors, 90% die within the first year.
Cox claims she is in danger because of two previous c-section deliveries, fearing her uterus could rupture by continuing the pregnancy. Realistically, she has less than a 1% chance of that happening, which is less than half the chance of a complication from a second-trimester abortion.1http://tinyurl.com/ytppv289 and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37245784/ and http://tinyurl.com/ys5zvm6j (accessed 12/12/23)
According to a 12/6/23 Dallas Morning News editorial Cox stated, “I do not want my baby to arrive in this world only to watch her suffer.” Finally, some honesty.
In 2013 writer and commentator Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote:
Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.
Welcome to postmodern eugenics, where only the fit, talented, intelligent, and wanted, can live. Kate Cox has left Texas to abort her child. She could have done that from the start, without the hoopla. Yet, you can better manipulate public opinion through a spectacle. We do well to remember the words of Maimonides,
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
A word of caution: Pointing an accusing finger at those who do wrong is easy. It is worth asking, “What could we have done to make abortion the least desirable of all her options.” Perhaps that is the biggest lesson from this sideshow.
To know the unborn child’s perspective, watch these two videos:
Choosing Life Over Trisomy 18 | Tabitha’s Story
99 Balloons | Igniter Media | Inspirational Church Video
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