Posted on 03/23/2020 5:58:40 PM PDT by Morgana
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s order Monday banning all elective medical procedures in the state includes an “explicit exemption” for aborting unborn babies.
While much of the country is focused on saving lives, abortion activists and their political allies are still intent on killing them – even while medical resources are scarce and people are dying from the coronavirus.
“Governor Murphy’s executive order exempting abortion during this global pandemic defies logic and is highly irresponsible,” said New Jersey Right to Life Executive Director Marie Tasy. “97% of all abortions are elective procedures and are not medically necessary.”
A press release from Murphy’s office states that all elective surgeries and other medical procedures will be temporarily banned beginning Friday to “preserve the capacity of the health care system” to respond to the coronavirus. The governor’s order states that all medical and dental operations should be delayed unless there is undue risk to the patient’s health.
“Our new reality calls for aggressive action to reduce the burden on our health care system and protect our frontline medical responders,” Murphy said. “Given the dramatic shortfall in personal protective equipment we face, it’s imperative that we work with our partners in health care to strategically preserve supplies and equipment for emergency purposes only.”
However, the governor specifically excluded elective abortions from his order. “Explicit exemption for family planning and termination of pregnancies: The order provides that it shall not be interpreted in any way to limit access to family planning services, including termination of pregnancies,” the press release states.
Tasy said the governor should be focused on saving lives, not aiding the abortion industry.
“Vital medical supplies and precious resources which already are in short supply need to be preserved for our hospitals and health care workers to be able to fight against COVID-19,” she said. “We call on Governor Murphy to do the right thing by reversing this action immediately so that valuable resources can instead be utilized for urgent health care needs that will actually help save human lives and mitigate human suffering.”
Murphy is not the only one. Pro-abortion Democrat governors in Massachusetts and Washington state also carved out exceptions allowing elective abortions to continue during the coronavirus crisis.
Other governors have issued similar orders limiting non-essential medical procedures, but abortion facilities continue to do abortions there as well. Abortion businesses are still open in California and Pennsylvania, despite their governors’ bans on non-essential medical care. LifeNews reported about similar situations in Illinois, Maine and Puerto Rico last week.
Despite what these Democrat governors claim, almost all abortions are elective. What’s more, they are not life-saving, they are life-destroying. An unborn baby is killed, and its mother’s life is put at risk.
So far, two states have recognized this in their efforts to combat the coronavirus. Both Texas and Ohio included abortion facilities in their bans on non-essential surgeries and procedures. However, Ohio abortion facilities are refusing to comply.
ACTION: Contact Gov. Phil Murphy online, call his office at 609-292-6000 or contact him through Twitter at @GovMurphy
Folks are rebelling and starting to ignore the socialists.
While the Bishops cow-tow and effectively place the nation under an Interdict.
I thought there was no such thing as the Jersey Devil.
In NJ, OF COURSE!!! nothing is more important than killing babies and the profit of the baby killers.
NJ is a prime example of abortion for eugenic purposes.
It will be legal forever - and the clinics are in the black areas.
How terrible for Governor Murphy on the Day of Judgement. He will be given back in kind for all the death and pain he has inflicted on the innocent unborn. Words cannot explain the utter horror that awaits him on the day he dies. May he repent of this evil, and soon.
‘Words cannot explain the utter horror that awaits him on the day he dies.’
I’m sure that will come as a great comfort to those he allowed to be killed while he was alive...
I use to think electro shock therapy was unnecessary.
Abortion was one of the crimes against humanity listed against the Nuremberg defendants; they were hung for it.
Dr Mengele experimented and murdered children, this is evil! abortionists killing babies during a pandemic no less, what is this?
I agree; while we’re focusing on saving lives, others want to focus on ending others. Those same people would be quite happy to euthanize the older ones, too.
Actually it will. Read Revelation 6:10.
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