The Runback: Whose Values? Not Mine
The Runback: Whose Values? Not Mine
Wes Moore Says "Leave No One Behind." But that offer does not apply if you are an unborn child.
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The Monday Thought
In case you have been living under a rock, on his first day in office Governor Wes Moore released $3.5 million of funds to train more people to perform abortions in Maryland.
Moore also released $3.5 million to train additional clinicians to perform abortions, which the former Republican governor withheld. State Democrats had pleaded with Hogan to release the funding last summer following the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, but he declined.
That’s bad enough, but what really struck me is the fact that Moore, in response to his release of this money, said this:
“Maryland has some of the strongest laws in the nation to protect and preserve women’s reproductive rights,” Moore said. “Our values as a state and as a people require us to do more, especially for women and families in states where safe access to reproductive care has been denied.”
Who’s values is Wes Moore talking about? Because they sure as hell aren’t mine.
My values do not include spending state dollars to train non-doctors to perform deadly surgical procedures.
My values do not include creating more avenues for more people to commit premeditated homicide on unborn children.
My values do not include using the disgusting euphemism of “reproductive care” to avoid talking about what an abortion is.
My values do not include a Constitutional amendment to make it legal forevermore to kill unborn children legally in Maryland.
And yet, Wes Moore has the audacity to say that “Our values as a state” require that the state do more to make sure that Maryland is not just a place where abortion is legal, but a place where people can come to Maryland to get an abortion in a perverse abortion tourism industry.
Wes Moore loves the phrase “Leave No One Behind.” He absolutely loves it. Used it in his campaign. Loves it so much that he had taxpayer dollars spent to slap that campaign slogan on signs when you cross the border into Maryland.
But that offer does not apply if you are an unborn child. It’s bad enough that 31% of pregnancies in Maryland end in abortion. But that just isn’t enough to Wes Moore. The Moore slogan might as well be “Leave No One Behind…unless you’re an unborn child and we’ll make sure you never get here.”
Wes Moore can value whatever he wants, and he will answer for that in the next life. But he should not dare to profess that his values are somehow shared by Marylanders.
