AAPAC Platform and Critical Issues
Support State and Local Abortion Abolition Legislation
AAPAC supports Oklahoma Senate Bill 495 which essentially characterizes Roe v. Wade as a legal fiction worthy of being ignored. Oklahoma would assert its police powers of outlawing the homicide of preborn babies. Although not as bold, AAPAC also supports the newly passed Texas law which provides a cause of action to anyone “to sue abortion providers or anyone who helps someone get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat has been detected. The person would not have to be connected to someone who had an abortion or to a provider to sue.”
AAPAC also supports all efforts to make localities sanctuary cities for the preborn where abortion murder mills are not welcome—the City of Lubbock recently passed such a measure by referendum which passed by 62% of the vote of its residents.
Support Specific Legislation to Shut Down Abortion Clinics
AAPAC encourages States and localities to shut down abortion clinics through sanctuary city legislation, through zoning ordinances, and by revoking operating licenses for such facilities. AAPAC does not favor prosecuting women who obtain abortions for policy and jurisprudential reasons: 1. Such action would discourage their cooperation in any prosecution of those who profit from murdering the preborn, namely the abortion clinics; 2. Targeting women could also encourage an overly intrusive State or locality to overreach and violate legitimate privacy rights; 3. It would also disincentivize women who have had abortions from seeking medical help and counseling for fear of prosecution; and 4. Such attempts at prosecuting women would require much evidence in each case, be a waste of taxpayer dollars, and not serve much of a purpose other than to re-victimize women who had already been victimized by an abortionist.
State and local resources are limited and it would be far preferable if they were concentrated simply on shutting down abortion clinics, which are essentially murder for hire organizations. Any medical clinic that advertises abortion or is proven to have engaged in abortion after the enactment of a law banning the practice would simply lose its license to practice and be forced to shut down by the locality or State. Any persons harmed by the clinic would then have a cause of action in tort. An illegal abortion would be a prima facie evidence of a tort. The only exception allowed for the performance of a legal abortion would be if the life of the mother were proven to be in danger.
Provide Women a Wide Array of Free Market Alternatives to Abortion
Families are disincentivized from going through the adoption process because it is overly costly and mired in government rules and regulations. Cut out the parties in the middle and allow prospective adoptive parents to freely contract for the transfer of babies with birth mothers. Adoption information exchanges and markets could easily be established over the Internet.
Support Over-the-Counter Contraceptive Availability and Deregulation of Drugs
Both Republicans and Democrats have conspired to keep contraceptives and medicines in general regulated and expensive. The CATO Institute did a good analysis and concluded that, “The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists urges over‐the‐counter access to all hormonal contraceptives ‘without age restrictions.’ Congress already leaves minors free to purchase Plan B— and even lethal doses of acetaminophen, aspirin and other over‐the‐counter drugs — without a prescription. Yet the GOP bill would deny minors access to a low‐risk drug that prevents them from getting pregnant and reduces the incidence of abortion. The Democrats’ bill attempts to expand access by requiring insurers to pay 100% of the cost of over‐the‐counter contraceptives for their enrollees. But after the government phased in an identical requirement for prescription contraceptives in 2014, prices for hormones and oral contraceptives stopped falling and instead skyrocketed. By 2019, they had risen three times as fast as prices for prescription drugs overall. Again, the Democrats’ bill would not make birth control available over the counter. But if it did, such a mandate would make it more expensive.”
Ultimately, Government regulation of the Drug market causes shortages and high prices. The U.S. pharmaceutical and medical markets are highly regulated and it is no accident that the price of medicines and medical treatment are the highest in the World and continue to increase and perfectly reasonable medical treatments are unavailable here as compared to other countries. Government interference is counter-productive and the regulation of medicine is not an enumerated power in the U.S. Constitution. Consequently, the Food and Drug Administration should be abolished.
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