Governor
Spitzer Continues to Push Anti-life Plans with
"State of State" Address
Not stopping with massive
funding for human embryo destruction, Spitzer
wants to
steamroll
over all Unborn children in New York by
passage of his radical abortion bill.
In his “plan
for health care” outlined in the January 9th
“State of the State” address opening the
2008 legislative
session, Governor Eliot Spitzer took direct
aim at the federal government for daring to
legislate any protections from
abortion-on-demand through all nine months of
pregnancy, saying: “We
must also make a commitment to women’s
health. Given the continued efforts at the
federal level to dismantle protections
for women’s reproductive health and privacy,
I ask you to pass the ‘Reproductive Health
and Privacy Protection Act.’” Under
the fallacy of improving women’s health, the
Governor extolled his extremist abortion bill,
which would actually place
women at more risk. Spitzer chided the federal
government for common sense measures passed to
protect women and their
unborn children from the horrors of abortion.
The federal government, under former
Republican Congressional leadership
and still-current President George W. Bush,
has enacted legislation bringing the first
inklings of sanity to an out-of-control
abortion industry in New York. Pro-abortion
radicals are not happy. Continuing to act as
prosecutor-in chief rather
than executive-in-chief, the Governor lashed
out. The law igniting the most anger with
Spitzer and the abortion lobby
has been the Federal Partial-Birth Abortion
Ban Act, upheld by the Supreme Court as
constitutional in April 2007. The
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban is now, thankfully,
the law of the land—including in New York.
Backing up for a moment, the
infamous Roe vs. Wade decision now 35 years
old talks about a trimester system and
“promoting [the State’s]
interest in the potentiality of human life.”
But the real effect of the 1973 “Roe”
and “Doe” decisions at
the hands of the abortion industry has been to
systematically wipe out any and all
consideration for human life through all
nine months of pregnancy, setting up a
totalitarian system of purely subjective
disposal of the Unborn for any reason. Total
disregard for the Unborn is sadly at its worst
in New York. Yet, for the Governor, any minute
measure of concern for
human life remaining in New York’s state law
is too much to tolerate. The Governor’s
radical abortion bill, the so-called “Reproductive
Health and Privacy Protection Act,” would
wipe out the last wisps of
protection in New York law and further ensure
that when Roe is overturned, the
New York abortion industry can continue
business-as-usual. Governor Spitzer’s
abortion bill should arouse the
concern of all but the most hardened
pro-abortion radicals in
our state. In his speech on January 9, 2008,
Governor Spitzer also praised the $600 million
New York State committed in the
2007 budget for the destruction of human life,
excused under the umbrella of
“research.”
“Last
year, working together with both houses of the
Legislature and guided by the leadership
of Lt. Gov. Paterson, we
created a $600 million Stem Cell Research Fund…
Stem cell research is
an economic development opportunity, but it is
also a moral imperative. I am pleased to
report that, this week, the
first round of grants went out, making New
York’s stem cell fund the
fastest in the country to go from green light
to grant making... New York can blaze a
national path toward health,
and hope.” Profit
was a motive to start up this massive new
state venture (as predicted by NYSRTL) and the
researchers and administrators can’t access
the cash fast enough. Ignoring any ethical
consideration for the treatment of tiny human
life, Governor Spitzer boldly declares that
funding immoral failing research is moral—again
calling good evil, and evil good. On January
7, 2008, hurdling right over the objections
and concerns of the Ethics Committee (note—advisory
only), NYSTEM announced that $14.5 million was
awarded to 25 New York State institutions for
research projects ($6.1M), “infrastructure”
($7.4M), and training scientists ($1M) http://www.ny.gov/governor/press/0107081.htmlSpitzer
claimed New York had to expand stem cell
research funding with its own funding because
the federal government had
“failed” to do so. Translation: the
federal government had rightfully denied
taxpayer investment into lethal research and
instead upheld the
protection of human life, thanks to President
Bush. Now, New York has a nifty high-gloss
program for universities and
colleges, ever hungry for more state handouts,
to circumvent federal guidelines and have
taxpayers foot the bill for a new
round of “breakthroughs” having no
relation to near-term cures. This happened
without public discussion or concern for
the taxpayers’ desire for such activity and
cost. NYSTEM was created
behind closed doors, rushed through, and
ordered by legislative leaders to a vote in a
budget still warm off
the presses and unread as the clock approached
midnight. Beyond the moral travesty it is,
that moment was a low
point in the state’s civic duty to its
citizens.
Hopefully,
NYSTEM was Governor Spitzer’s last anti-life
“accomplishment,” and
New York legislators will not acquiesce and
let him steamroll over any more human life
to please New York’s
active abortion industry.
