Some Matters Concerning Abortion

Imagine further that some of these people are known as so-called pillars of the community. The result we dare say would be electric.

We are also certain that this information would find its way around the world in – as it were – a twinkling of an eye.

Well we do have it on what we consider fairly good authority that such killings d take place. But regrettably, this information will not get to the world any time soon; this due to the fact that the deaths in question do take place behind closed doors – thus veiled from the attention of the police.

At this juncture, advantage clearly accrues to those who use veils and to those who work behind closed doors; thus effectively thwarting the work of fine folk like this nation’s chief medical officer is Dr. Merceline Dahl-Regis.

In this regard, we cite some of her comments concerning abortion; a matter that has a number of implications for the health and well-being of families, the stability of man-woman relationships and the lives of a myriad of totally innocent human persons.

As Dr. Dahl-Regis has suggested, "the procedure could be carried out under certain circumstances. But, the medical implications for abortion when the life of the mother is threatened require a team of physicians, social workers and psychologists, to make that determination."

Dahl-Regis also notes that, "By statute, abortion is illegal… It is not supported and physicians who do it are working outside the law… in accordance with Section 295 of The Penal Code, as contained in Chapter 84 of The Statute Laws of The Bahamas, 2002, "Whoever intentionally and unlawfully causes abortion or miscarriage shall be liable to imprisonment for 10 years."

Here we move on in this commentary by noting what seems to be a pervasive double standard in our beloved land.

Here imagine a scenario where one woman decides [sometimes against the odds] that she will have her child; another decides that she would abort hers.

One woman is vilified and blamed for being the progenitor of some of this nation’s more serious social ills, while the other is able to get on with her so-called ‘trouble-free’ life.

If ever there was a paradox, here we see one.

But there is more.

In this regard, please take note that some who have killed infants in the womb are among those who routinely turn a blind eye to their sisters in distress.

In the meantime, there is a cacophony of voices calling for even more death. Here we reference the men and women who cry out for even more blood-shed as they demand capital punishment for murderers.

Why then do we hear so few cries for women who have killed infants to be searched out and [with their enablers] find themselves charged before the courts?

And for sure, we sometimes wonder how some people could be so terribly duplicitous as they declaim to the roof-tops as to how and why this beloved country of ours seems to be going – as it were – to hell in a hand-basket.

Sadly, law or no law, there is every indication that there are doctors and other health-care professionals who routinely flout the law.

Their patients in their thousands know that we speak truth; and for sure, the doctors in question also know that we speak truth.

In addition, God knows that we speak truth.

And so, while we clearly have no precise statistics to go on, we are fairly certain that this nefarious procedure is easily procured; that it comes at a high price; and that some of our nation’s doctors are involved in this dreadful business; one that involves the taking of lives but just settled in the womb.

Indeed, we vividly recall how it came to be that one abortionist on his road to both wealth and repentance, allowed that he had –over a period of years- illegally terminated thousands of pregnancies and as to how this practice had made him a very rich man.

Happily, this man – now deceased – was not only made rich by his illegal activities. Here we reference the fact that as he killed more and more infants in the womb, conscience kicked in and he came to the realization that what he was doing was egregiously wrong.

And so he turned away from his wicked ways.

And as we can also attest, once he had turned away from this nasty business, his work was given over to helping women in distress. This he did by helping them to understand that life is precious; that it should be cherished and that the right to life was unalienable.