Letter: Here’s an idea: mandatory abortions at the border

Posted 2/13/19

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s standing ovation over a bill expanding reproductive rights inspires me, unlike most conservatives, to consider new possibilities. Additionally, Rhode Island state …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

Register to post events


If you'd like to post an event to our calendar, you can create a free account by clicking here.

Note that free accounts do not have access to our subscriber-only content.

Day pass subscribers

Are you a day pass subscriber who needs to log in? Click here to continue.


Letter: Here’s an idea: mandatory abortions at the border

Posted

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s standing ovation over a bill expanding reproductive rights inspires me, unlike most conservatives, to consider new possibilities. Additionally, Rhode Island state Rep. Edith Ajello and others are co-sponsoring a similar bill, the Reproductive Health Care Act, which Gov. Gina Raimondo — as Catholic as Cuomo, though less so than a quahog — has vowed to sign, riding the trend as an unambitious public servant. Following their lights, I suggest below a likeminded bipartisan compromise.

In the spirit of women’s emancipation, immigration reform would be greatly advanced if abortions were made compulsory at our southern border for all inbound undocumented persons confirmed pregnant on examination. I stretch the window of opportunity for abortion — no wider than Virginia Delegate and Animal Rights Advocate Kathy Tran — from conception to dilation (in which case, according to Gov. Ralph “Moonwalker” Northam, delivery is no obstacle).

My solution benefits working-class immigrant women and settles certain vexed questions over birthright citizenship.

Because señoritas are so habitually ravished along the hike, their folks heap them with contraceptive pills at considerable expense to generational poverty (hence migration), which suggests migrant pregnancies are undesirable. Their vulnerability to predators aside, should a more accommodating administration later reinstate “Catch & Release,” pregnant women aren’t good sprinters.

Birthright citizenship, nevertheless, goads scores of them to waddle untold treacherous paths — Al Norte or Bust — for a chance to offer “gifts of love” astride the border.

My compromise encourages safer passage, sparing generations of women and their purses grief, without any revision to the 14th Amendment; a birthright requires a person to be born.

So who is hurt by my suggestion? Families will nowise be separated because a pregnancy isn’t a family; it’s a medical condition. What I propose then is little different from pulling a bad tooth during a routine caravan health screening.

Moreover, even with taxpayers’ generosity (e.g. in-state tuition, or two years tuition-free), can Xiomara build a better life for future generations starting hers here — at our invitation — clapped into motherhood? Her existing children, left numerously behind, already require her to remit her limited income (supplementing the beggarly $10 billion in Federal Aid pledged to her homeland) which additional mouths to feed are sure to chew through.

By now, alarmists have leveled the “genocide” word at me, though I’ve advocated for neither cancellation nor sterilization of those parties related to abortions by accidents of paternity. Besides, Planned Parenthood’s foreseeable involvement would promise that the genetic heritage of Latin and Central Americans spreads over a larger area, over a longer length of time, at the cellular level.

The objection remains that my bipartisan compromise liquidates future Democrat voters. But theirs being the party of progress — at the risk of anthropomorphizing fetuses — I assume they’d selflessly endorse my idea. “Deliver us not!”

Zachary A. Cooper
Bristol

2024 by East Bay Media Group

Barrington · Bristol · East Providence · Little Compton · Portsmouth · Tiverton · Warren · Westport
Meet our staff
MIKE REGO

Mike Rego has worked at East Bay Newspapers since 2001, helping the company launch The Westport Shorelines. He soon after became a Sports Editor, spending the next 10-plus years in that role before taking over as editor of The East Providence Post in February of 2012. To contact Mike about The Post or to submit information, suggest story ideas or photo opportunities, etc. in East Providence, email mrego@eastbaymediagroup.com.