No One Has Any Other Authority from God to Cut Innocent Life Short

Well, shut my mouth.

I was wrong.

Partially wrong.

What was I partially wrong about?

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The following supposition of mine, which was included in Baby Butchery is Not A "Small Issue" to Christ the King, has proven to be most incorrect:

First, refusing to take a position against the proposed amendment to the Florida State Constitution that would nullify all existing “pro-life” legislation enacted into law (quotation marks are used around the phrase “pro-life” as such laws contain “exceptions”) is an act of undisguised political cowardice.

Trump will probably come out in opposition to [Florida] the amendment at some point before November 5, 2024, although it is my surmise that, given his record of equivocation in the past twelve months, he will do so by expressing “understanding” for those voters who support the amendment and by stating that he would “live” with the results after the “people” had “decided” the matter. Here is a reminder: the “people” have no authority to “decide” anything about the binding precepts of the Fifth Commandment. Every human being is duty bound to obey the Commandments, including the Fifth Commandment, over which no one—whether acting individually or collectively with others in the institutions of civil governance or by means of a popular referendum—has any authority from God to contravene. (As found in Baby Butchery is Not A "Small Issue" to Christ the King.)

Donald John Trump fooled me on this one as he came out last evening, Thursday, August 29, 2024, the Feast of the Decollation of Saint John the Baptist and the Commemoration of Saint Sabina, to suggest that he would vote in favor of the amendment to the State of Florida Constitution that would overturn a state law banning the killing of innocent preborn children after they had reached the age of six weeks within the sanctuaries of their mothers’ wombs except in the case when it is alleged that their mothers’ lives would be “endangered”:

Former President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that he’ll vote in favor of a Florida ballot measure aimed at overturning the state’s six-week abortion ban. 

“I think the six week is too short. It has to be more time,” Trump told NBC News when asked how he intends to vote on the November referendum. “I want more weeks.”

“I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks,” the former president added.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the ban — which allows exceptions to save the mother’s life — into law in April of last year.

Trump, at the time, called DeSantis’ decision to sign the bill into law a “terrible mistake.”

The so-called “heartbeat” law, which derives its name from when an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detectable, went into effect in May. 

Amendment 4, which is among six ballot questions Florida voters will take up in November, would provide a state constitutional right to abortion before viability, effectively killing the heartbeat law. 

The measure will require a threshold of at least 60% support to succeed.

Trump has presented himself as being sympathetic to abortion rights advocates since the launch of his 2024 campaign. 

He announced earlier this year that he would not support a national ban on the procedure. 

Last week, Trump touted on Truth Social that, if elected, his administration would be “great for women and their reproductive rights.”

The Republican nominee for president indicated Thursday that he was fairly satisfied with the state of play as it relates to abortion.

“Look, just so you understand, everybody wanted Roe v. Wade terminated for years, 52 years. I got it done,” Trump said. “They wanted to go back to the states.” 

“Exceptions are very important for me, for Ronald Reagan, for others that have navigated this very, very interesting and difficult path.” 

A poll from the University of North Florida’s Public Opinion Research Lab released last month showed 69% of Sunshine State residents indicating that they would vote yes on Amendment 4 – which far out-polled support for Vice President Kamala Harris in the state.  

However, a Florida Atlantic University/Mainstreet USA poll released earlier this month found only 56% of Floridians supporting the proposed amendment – 4 points less than necessary for the amendment to become law. (Trump suggests he’ll vote to overturn Florida’s six-week abortion ban: ‘Too short’.)

Oh my. 

It was only after this commentary had been posted and I was preparing to shut down the computer for a few hours of sleep that I saw that another news report had been published on the former president's reiteration of his support for the immoral, baby-killing practice of in vitro fertilization:

Former President Donald Trump pledged to expand access to in-vitro fertilization treatment through a combination of both insurance mandates and government funding, despite concerns from the anti-abortion movement.

“+,” Trump declared at a rally in Michigan Thursday.

“We want more babies, to put it very nicely. And for the same reason, we will also allow new parents to deduct major newborn expenses from their taxes.”

Trump later reiterated his IVF stance at a town hall in La Crosse, Wis., which Rep. Tulsi Gabbard moderated.

IVF is a form of assisted reproduction in which sperm and egg are fertilized in a lab. Due to the complex nature of that process, it can result in excess embryos.

Anti-abortion activists have railed against how those embryos can end up being disposed of.

In February, the issue of IVF was catapulted into the national spotlight after the Alabama Supreme Court determined embryos in IVF procedures can be considered unborn children.

That ruling prompted some IVF clinics in the state to halt operations over fears they could be liable for embryos lost in accidents. 

Often left out of the political discourse are the parents in that Alabama case who lost their embryos in a lab snafu. Alabama has since moved to grant liability protection to IVF treatment centers, but that has not made the issue go away.

Trump has long maintained support for IVF and backed away from the Republican Party’s longstanding opposition to abortion practices. With an eye on the turbulent politics of the albatross issue, he has declared opposition to any federal ban on abortion. (Donald Trump promises to expand IVF access: 'We want more babies'. This article also contained a reference to a different interview that Trump had about the Florida pro-death amendment stating that he had not made up his mind about it, only that he wanted more weeks for mothers to "decide" to kill their babies even though he told an interviwer for NBC News that he had made up his mind. For an andidote to the support for in vitro fertilization, please see  Your "Pro-Life" President is At It Again, Another Memorandum to Clueless Don from Queens: Catholics Do Not Compromise on Truth, Pontius Trump Washes His Hands of the Blood of Innocent Babies, and "The Mutable Will of the People".)

Donald John Trump is without any principles, and it will be because of such egregious statements that he might lose to Kamala Harris in the “swing states” (Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) where the 2024 presidential election will be decided. He also stands to lose the support of at least some committed pro-life voters who will stay home or not vote for any presidential candidate rather than to enable the former president’s continued betrayal of the case of fundamental justice founded in the truths of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural Law as contained within the Fifth Commandment’s binding precept: “Thou shalt not kill.”

Thus, a few brief comments are in order.

First, as I discussed in The Supreme Masters of Sophistry: Unable to Admit the Fifth Commandment Exists, which was published on December 12, 2024, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, no matter how well-intentioned “heartbeat” laws may be, such laws are immoral as each innocent human life is inviolable from the moment of conception until death without exception.

Second, there is no distinction about the humanity of any human being on the basis of their age after conception. A human being is a human being. It is illicit to deliberately intend to kill any innocent human being at any time for any reason regardless of how young or old he may be. This applies equally to the medical industry’s vivisection of living humans after a declaration of “brain death and to that industry’s starvation and dehydration of brain damaged human beings (see As Utilitarian as the Nuremburg Laws Themselves) and “quality of life” care/palliative care/hospice just as much as it does to the slaughter of innocent preborn babies.

Third, no human being, whether acting on his own or collectively with others in the institutions of civil governance or, in this instance, in a referendum put to them for their vote in an election, has any authority of God to dispense with any precept of the Divine Positive Law and/or the Natural Law, including the absolute inviolability of all innocent human life.

Fourth, Donald John Trump’s announcement that six weeks is “too short” demonstrates yet again his utter lack of principles and his complete ignorance of moral truth. He needed pro-life voters to secure the Republican Party presidential nomination in 2016, and he has made a calculated determination now that pro-life voters have no choice but to go along with him as the “lesser of two evils.” How is his suggestion that he will vote to overturn a heartbeat law that, as noted above, is founded on the falsehood that the protection of a child’s life begins with its heartbeat and not is conception, a “lesser evil”? (I know what objections to this question will be raised. Then again, as I noted just five days ago, This is Where the “Lesser of Two Evils” Must Lead.)

Fifth, former President Donald John Trump persists in the delusion—and it is nothing other than a delusion of his own making—that “everyone” supported the reversal of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Roe v. Wade, January 22, 1973. If this is so, why was there such outrage amongst pro-aborts and even among so-called “moderate” voters (there is nothing “moderate” about supporting even the slaughter of a single child under cover of the civil law) following the Court’s reversal of Roe in the case of Thomas E Dobbs, Mississippi State Health Officer v. Jackson Women’s Organization, June 24 2022, and that motivated pro-abortion votes to pass referenda in various states (Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio) protecting a woman’s nonexistent “right” to have her baby slaughtered?

If "everyone" wanted the issue of baby-butchery to go back to the states, then why did it take forty-nine years to overturn Roe v. Wade? in the Dobbs case when the proposed Hatch-Eagleton constitutional amendment, which failed to secure necessary Congressional support, would accomplished the same immoral end of letting the "people" decide that over which they have no authority to "decide"?

Sixth, although the late President Ronald Wilson Reagan did make the immoral “exceptions” for about a decade after he came to change his own pro-abortion views, he did come to reject all such “exceptions,” at least rhetorically, by the time he left office on January 20, 1989. Still and all, Reagan’s support for such “exceptions both rhetorically and as a matter of policy prior to that time means nothing at all as the fortieth president, as quick witted, likeable and self-deprecating as he was, was wrong in this support. No matter his popularity and the high regard in which he is still held by many of those who voted for him in 1980 and 1984, Ronald Wilson Reagan’s support for “exceptions” does not make such support correct. Not even a true pope has any authority to permit “exceptions” to the binding precepts of the Divine Positive Law and the Natural as they have been revealed by God Himself and exist in the very nature of things that are knowable by right reason and an informed conscience.

Seventh, forcing Catholics to fund the immoral, baby-killng practice of in vitro fertilization is precisely what the administration of Barack Hussein Obama/Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., did by inserting a contraception mandate into the administration of the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that caused the Little Sisters of the Poor and Hobby Lobby to bring lawsuits against the administration. 

There is little else left to say.

All I will say at a very, very late/early hour is that Christ the King will never favor anyone in life or in death who makes it a point to support the nonexistent “negotiability” of innocent human life. Such a person can win elections, but woe to him if he ignores the silent pleas of the innocent in the vain effort to curry favor with those who will never support it.

As Our Divine Redeemer and King told us:

For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul? (Matthew 16: 26)

I have written this before and I will write it yet again: The belief that “freedom” can be maintained at the price of indifference about and/or actual support for any of the sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance is delusional.

Remember this and remember it well: the only true standard of human liberty is the standard of the Holy Cross of Christ the King as It must be held high by His Holy Catholic Church.

May Our Lady help us to persevere in our own commitment to the Triumph of her Immaculate Heart, especially by means of her Most Holy Rosary, as we seek to do penance for our own sins, which have, of course, worsened the state of the world-at-large and of the Church Militant on earth more than we would like to admit.

Vivat Christus Rex!

Vivat Christus Rex!

Vivat Regina Mariae Immaculate!

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for  us.

Saint Joseph, pray for us.

Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us. 

Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.

Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.

Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.

Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.

Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us. 

Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.

Saint Rose of Lima, pray for us.

Saints Felix and Adauctus, pray for us.