The circumstances in which you were born should not determine your worth. Shouldn’t this be common sense? Apparently not. The recent case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine Versus the United States Food and Drug Administration is the topic of conversation for our latest CareCast.
CareCast is Care Net’s Podcast on family, faith, and life and features your hosts Roland Warren, President and CEO of Care Net, and Vincent DiCaro, Chief Outreach Officer of Care Net. We invite you to sit back and listen to Roland and Vince as they dig deeper into the latest court case surrounding the abortion debate and more importantly, what’s behind this quest for death, all in the latest episode of CareCast.
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The case: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
LifeNews reported a recent court filing for the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine AHM Versus the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AHM filed a lawsuit against the FDA for illegally pushing through approval for the abortion pill, using procedures that are already for life-saving drugs.
As Roland and Vince point out on this CareCast, part of the logic here, sadly, is that pregnancy is viewed as an illness. FDA required classify pregnancy as a life-threatening illness. To clarify, a requirement for fast-tracking an adjuvant drug, for example, must be that there are no known alternatives available. The FDA, in speeding up the process for public delivery of the abortion drug, actually botched the process to accommodate abortions.
The most popular way to fast-track abortion medicine is to say, “Well, a woman’s pregnancy is really a disease, and the cure is to end the child’s life…”
Roland explained from a medical perspective, when a doctor examines a patient, if the doctor sees something that looks cancerous, the doctor will refer the person to oncology, for example.
If cancer is found, the patient will say without hesitation, “Get it out of me as soon as possible.” That would make sense if the issue at hand was cancer. It is life-threatening and steps must be taken to eliminate the cancer from you.
However, the “issue” we’re talking about here isn’t cancer…it’s what we’re looking at in the unborn. In the case of abortion, we say, “Get it out of me, quick.” A child growing inside a pregnant woman seems to be considered a disease to be removed.
It should go without saying, but we shouldn’t think of pregnancy as a cancer that needs to be removed. The vulnerable unborn, regardless of the circumstances surrounding the pregnancy, is an image bearer of Christ—just as the pregnant woman makes decisions.
Additionally, one of the court filings is from Jason Lindo, Professor of Economics at Texas A&M, defending the FDA’s view on the need for an abortion pill that is readily available to women. As an economics professor, he used an economic argument, essentially saying that the mother who typically needs access to the abortion pill—lives in poverty, has a low level of education, and so on. The idea is that, if a woman has her child, said child will be born in poverty and more likely to live in poverty, fail in school, and suffer negative economic outcomes.
Don’t we know by now that, if we really want to end poverty, increase education, and decrease the crime rate, the way forward is more abortion?!
I hope you’re picking up on the sarcasm I’m laying out. But I can’t do this topic justice here. So Roland and Vince discussed the briefing, what was missing, and what was behind this distortion of reality on every level.
As this episode of CareCast makes clear, the world is looking for a culture of death, as we engage in the issue of life, we must be consistent and continue to defend the vulnerable, with the unborn child at the forefront . I encourage you listen to Roland and Vince’s latest CareCast.
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