When Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first patent for the telephone in 1876, most people saw the invention as a triumph of mankind’s longtime challenge to communicate nearly instantaneously over long distances.
First through telegraph and then telephone, the first devices were primarily used by post offices, railroads, stock exchanges, newspapers and the wealthy – all to relay time-sensitive and urgent information.
The telephone was also used to save lives – mainly to call doctors and hospitals seeking help for sick or distressed patients.
Tragically, telecommunication technology is now being used to help facilitate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of pre-born children every year. From Tuesday’s New York Times:
Despite bans or restrictions on abortion in upwards of 20 states, doctors in abortion-friendly states are mailing deadly drugs to patients, who then self-administer the toxic cocktail.
A new law in Texas now bans this practice. HB7, which went into effect last week, permits Texas citizens to sue abortion pill distributors for at least $100,000 per violation.
Predictably, abortion advocates are criticizing the legislation, calling it an intimidation tactic against doctors and a pseudo spy campaign that incentivizes private citizens to pry into people’s private lives.
Texas joins seven other states either banning the mailing of abortion pills or telehealth abortion: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia.
Radical abortion enthusiasts have polished and perfected their talking points. Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, who is a professor and a public health scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, uses soft words to describe the hard truth about what’s at stake.
“All of this legislation will never take away from the fact that women will continue to need abortion care, and continue to get abortion care,” she says.
Merriam-Webster defines “health care” as “efforts made to maintain, restore, or promote someone’s physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially when performed by trained and licensed professionals.”
“Abortion care” is a term that’s been widely adopted – and widely abused. There is no such thing. Abortion isn’t a form of “care.” It doesn’t maintain, restore or promote anything – it destroys and decimates innocent life and inflicts long-term psychological damage on the mother.
The zealots wanting to allow the unfettered killing of preborn children are right that pro-life advocates have declared war on telehealth abortion. That’s because it not only destroys innocent life but also threatens the health and life of the mothers who often blindly ingest the toxic pills thinking they’re the equivalent of taking an aspirin.
Telecommunication isn’t the first invention to be coopted for evil purposes. Going back to fire itself, the broken and sinful have regularly misused and abused all types of discoveries and inventions. Telehealth allows those either unable to leave their homes or those without access to adequate medical care get the help they need. Legislators are wise to wrestle back control of it from those committed to corrupting and leveraging it for evil purposes like abortion.
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