{"id":197742,"date":"2019-03-11T07:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T12:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197742"},"modified":"2019-03-09T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T06:53:52","slug":"new-mexico-governor-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-mexico-governor-op-ed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico governor’s op-ed on abortion bill is full of falsehoods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Governor Michelle Grisham of New Mexico published a recent op-ed<\/a> in the Albuquerque Journal, announcing she would sign HB 51, a bill\u00a0intended to repeal a statute on the books from 1969 that would make abortion<\/a> a felony, except in cases of rape, birth defects, or life of the mother. Grisham is\u00a0the latest pro-abortion governor<\/a> to write an op-ed seeking to gain support for efforts to lead a state down the path of unapologetic acceptance of abortion on demand.<\/p>\n

HB 51 was made unconstitutional by Roe v. Wade<\/em> in 1973, but would return if the Supreme Court overturned the ruling. Governor Grisham makes her position on the 1969 law clear: \u201cI firmly support, have always supported and have made no secret about my support for excising this statute from our books. As governor, I have pledged to sign House Bill 51, which would do exactly that.\u201d She argues that women’s right to choose\u00a0abortion is one of \u201ctheir most private and personally sacred decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state already has practically no regulations on abortion<\/a>. New Mexico is one of the most permissive states<\/a> on abortion in the country, with no limitations on public funding for abortion, no requirement for parental involvement in a minor\u2019s abortion request, and no waiting periods. It is one of the few states that allows late-term abortion. The state recently shot down a parental notification bill aimed at addressing a loophole<\/a> \u201callowing pregnant teens to be taken off school premises for an abortion without a parent\u2019s knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ: Emails reveal possible cover up in New Mexico woman\u2019s abortion death<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Grisham\u2019s piece is full of the same inaccuracies pro-abortion advocates have been trotting out for decades. A woman, she says, must be \u201cfree to make a decision \u2026 none of which is anyone else\u2019s business.\u201d The Supreme Court \u201cestablished a woman\u2019s right to choose as the law of the land.\u201d The right to choose abortion is one of \u201ca woman\u2019s most basic rights,\u201d she claims. Grisham also leans heavily on the assumption that abortion is a form of health care, and blasts the 1969 statute for \u201cvillainizing our medical professionals.\u201d The article ends up being the greatest hits of all the worn-out, hollow pro-abortion rhetoric imaginable. But what’s remarkable is the way Grisham skates over the core reality at question: abortion is not health care, and every abortion takes the life of a vulnerable human being.<\/p>\n

Grisham presents herself as a defender of women everywhere, writing, \u201cI have every intention of leading a state that values women, that empowers women, that listens to women.\u201d She apparently feels that pro-life women or preborn female children do not meet the definition of \u201cwomen\u201d that she hopes to value, listen to, and empower. One wonders how women, not to mention their female preborn children, can be empowered and valued when they have no protections against\u00a0dangerous<\/a> late-term abortion<\/a> procedures. Curtis Boyd, an infamous late-term abortionist<\/a> headquartered in NM, owns a facility where at least one woman<\/a> has died. Employees of the facility have been caught on tape<\/a> offering to abort a 37-week-old baby for $17,000; Medicaid pays $9,000. Late-term abortion is a dangerous, but lucrative, procedure for abortionists. Yet Grisham has no interest in regulating or restricting those who would prey on women and their preborn children in the pursuit of money.<\/p>\n