Doctors Who Lie Cannot Be Sued Under New Law

Kansas’ state house of representatives is slated to vote on a bill Wednesday that would impose sweeping changes to abortions done in the state.  In what can only rationally be seen as a move to encourage deliberate lying to avoid abortions, the bill grants malpractice immunity to doctors when withholding information about pregnancies.  It additionally

• Protects doctors from malpractice if the woman suffers health damage, even if relevant information was withheld
• Require doctors to inform women of the (nonexistent speculation-only) risk of developing breast cancer following an abortion
• Force women to listen to the fetal heartbeat prior to abortion (manipulation technique)
• Remove tax deductions from abortion health insurance
• Remove tax credits from abortion providers

It is the combination of the most manipulative, despicable practices of bills from other states, many of which are under federal review, but the most insidious aspect is that doctors can withhold any information they choose, all in the name of saving fetuses, whether they would be viable as humans or not.

When you give doctors a free ride to lie to people by withholding information, you are beyond humanity. You show yourself to be unworthy of any level of respect.  Encouraging deliberate dishonesty, including in life-threatening, stillborn-situation cases, makes me ashamed for the humans in Kansas that are even considering this bill, if they are even deserving of that title.

Ignorance is Bliss, or a Requirement for Kansas Senators

The supreme arrogance of this bill lies in the fact that the (possibly unviable) fetus’s rights trump that of the mother, father, or any living, viable human.  Granted, abortions in the case where contraception could have prevented an unwanted pregnancy is more regrettable than otherwise, but this is not always the case.  Ectopic pregnancies can result in the death of the mother due to internal bleeding and hemmoraging.  Sirenomelia is named for the fusing of the legs together, and often includes a lack of vital organs.

You don’t know.

In the video above, the man’s wife would have given birth to a stillborn child because of sirenomelia.  “You’re killing your unborn baby!” they said.  And Kansas senators wanted  Aaron and his wife ignorant of their child’s unviability.  The bill, if it passed, would have protected (encouraged) doctors to withhold the information about the child’s condition, resulting in more pain for the mother when she gave birth to a worthless, lifeless hunk of flesh.

…there is a hell on Earth. Hell is sitting next to the person you love most and listening to her wail hysterically because her heart just broke into a million pieces. Hell is watching her entire body convulse with sobs because she’s being tortured with grief.

And yet Christians have the gall to accuse atheists of being Satan worshipers.  Because it is the work of atheists to increase the pain, suffering, torment and agony of humans by foisting ill-conceived shoddy bronze-age moral standards on everyone else.  Wait, no… I’m deliberately organizing my resources and faculties to oppose evil of this kind.

Christianity: Without Excuse

If you are a Christian reading this, good.  Maybe you could change your worldview enough to make an actual impact.  Publicly humiliate anyone who would seek to support measures like this; friends, family, pastors.  Maybe you could donate to Susan G. Komen, or even to Planned Parenthood directly, whose attempts at providing health care to low-income human beings is threatened every day.

The fact that the bill exists, along with the flippant nature of acceptance of the bill serve to say a few key things about the citizenry of Kansas: their elected officials think that its okay to be deliberately dishonest about reality if it saves a fetus.  This is who was elected, from a predominately Christian state.  Many moderates don’t speak out in the same way as fundamentalists like Westboro Baptist or others, but instead voice their opinion through votes.  And these representatives are ideally representations of their electorate.

Kansas has a very diverse religion demographic, but is still predominantly Christian.  The 2008 Pew Religious Landscape Study found that it was 13% Methodist, 13% Baptist, and 29% Roman Catholic, and a 2000 study showed the makeup as equal parts Catholic, Mainline, and Evangelical.  Bottom line: ‘moderates’ are voting people into office who think like this.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

And the good men and women of Kansas have voted in evil itself.  So I speak, and continue to speak, on behalf of the rights of women who would be slaughtered by ignorance in the name of mythology.  I speak on behalf of those who would not like to continue to see “Hell on earth,” but would rather see the closest view of heaven in the only time we have promised.

My friends, family, bloggers, pastors and many others have told me to silence my openly anti-theistic views, and I hope that someday I will.  I look forward to the day that the theocratic-driven ignorance that permeates our country will be put to an end, with equal rights and respect for all people of all faiths across humanity.  I have faith that it will, but rather than by prayer, I work, I write, I offend, and I do.

And I wish that day would come soon.