Defending life laws

During this year’s legislative session our elected officials got The Heartbeat Act passed into law.  On April 24th, Judge Dan Forgey announced a temporary injunction to block this new law.  Forgey predicted that the courts will win this and make this action permanent. 

For the last four years since Roe v. Wade was overthrown our elected legislators have worked tirelessly and have created several laws to protect unborn babies.  These efforts have been thwarted by a small cadre of people within Wyoming who have been girded with out-of-state financial backing which garnered the high courts’ support to block those laws. 

In January of this year Wyoming’s high courts determined that abortion is health care.  This ruling is incorrect.  Abortion is the opposite of health care.  Health care professionals take an oath, and pledge to protect life and “do no harm”.  Abortion kills an innocent baby and poses risks to the mother.  Health care professionals who carry out abortions are defaulting on their pledge.  

The pro-choice coalition said they are suffering irreparable harm from the Heartbeat Act and that irreparable harm is harm to their revenue stream.  The pro-life coalition reminds everyone that blocking this law means allowing abortions to continue and doing so gives permission to murder living human beings.  The pro-choice folks are not experiencing “irreparable harm”, it is the innocent baby who is killed who suffers it.

Those fighting against the Heartbeat Act state that this new law compels health care personnel to perform unnecessary invasive procedures.  The procedure they are referring to is the transvaginal ultrasound which has next to no risks…far fewer than any form of abortion.  

And while talking about risks; the abortion pill(s) (mifepristone/misoprostol) is dangerous.  The availability of these drugs enable women to take them in isolation and without medical oversight.  Women have died from complications associated with these drugs.  These women and their partners need medical and emotional support when facing the challenges of an unplanned pregnancy and these drugs are not an answer.  There are resources to protect the lives of the babies and their mothers.  Let’s focus on them and stand together for life.

Sincerely,

Mary Pat Szutenbach