by Mary Hahn Beerworth
After Phil Scott was targeted for defeat by an expensive and misleading advertising campaign paid for by Planned Parenthood, he flip-flopped, threw in with the “loves abortion” crowd, and folded to Planned Parenthood’s extreme abortion-on-demand agenda.
Scott once claimed to be a supporter of notifying parents before a minor daughter has an abortion, and an opponent of the gruesome partial-birth abortion procedure.
Now, whatever Planned Parenthood wants, Planned Parenthood gets.
Phil Scott learned his lesson – political pressure is effective. It comes as no surprise that Governor Phil Scott knows how to use political pressure and doesn’t hesitate to use it even when he doesn’t have all the facts.
Scott signed unlimited abortion into statute (2019) and stepped up to promote an amendment to the Vermont Constitution to “enshrine” unlimited abortion in our state’s founding document (2022).
In 2023, Scott signed a law that empowered the Attorney General to close down pregnancy resource centers that offer free services and help for young girls and women who wish to carry their babies to term.
Just this past year, Scott enacted a law that would eliminate protective measures for women seeking medical abortions by enabling anyone to acquire the deadly drugs – just by filling out an online questionnaire. It is becoming common to hear of men who oppose their partner’s decision to carry a baby to term, obtaining the drugs and then adding them to a pregnant woman’s drink, causing her to lose the baby.
The legislature ignores a woman’s right to choose to carry her baby to term but caves to the abortion lobby’s demands every time.
As Vermont Right to Life predicted would happen, the standards of professionalism have been lowered for abortion providers, and young girls and women are less safe than ever.
Vermont lawmakers have been unwilling to even consider passing a law protecting pregnant women from those who would engage in criminal acts that result in harm or death to a wanted baby – thereby denying a woman her right to choose life. The opportunity to rectify that situation is once again before the legislature in current Senate Bill 116. But it is highly unlikely to be addressed as the only concern is protecting abortion and not a woman’s choice to carry her baby to term.
An unborn baby’s heart is regularly beating just days after conception, but even viable, unborn children have zero legal protection in Vermont.
Capitulating to political pressure has contributed to deaths of over a thousand unborn babies each year in Vermont.
Maybe it is past time for the Governor to take a good, long look in the mirror before casting stones.
Author is Executive Director, Vermont Right to Life.
Discover more from Vermont Daily Chronicle
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Categories: Commentary
Well said
WCAX April 2021: “Vermont Gov. Phil Scott has condemned the “racist response” to his administration’s decision to make Black, Indigenous and people of color of any age eligible for a coronavirus vaccine before residents of other races.”
What other “races?” People of color? Is white a color? Who was targetting certain races or creeds to get shot up and boosted? Those who were pushed to the back of the line had more time to consider and research. How ironic knowing what we know now.
Also in 2021: “following the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent verdict, Scott acknowledged the existence of systemic racism in Vermont. ” A $90 million dollar grifter windfall – bought mansions and luxury items for those in the know.
Flam-flam shazam! No matter the topic, there is a cornacopia of nonsensical, witchcraft wordcraft scripted bs to feed the public. Know them by their fruits. There is no business like show business or psychological warfare.
Mary, I’m glad you are speaking up on this. There are too many prayer settings praying for Scott because he smiles and seems kind. There is nothing kind about a flag waving in the breeze and playing both sides of the aisle, but truly stands with those who won’t protect innocence in the womb perhaps because there is money to be made.
Why is he still in the VTGOP? Seriously, let him be governor, surely, but boot him out of the VTGOP immediately, so then we can rebuild.
How’s that song go? He ho, he hoe Scott’s got to go!
Vermont needs a new governor. Phil is farther to the left than his mentor, Peter Shumlin.
“China used to fine couples for having too many babies. Now it cannot pay them enough.” Headline August 5, 2025. Isn’t Vermont paying people to move here? Pope Benedict spoke of the Culture of Death. You reap what you sow. Pray to end abortion. God listens and answers our prayers.
Excellent, Mary. Thank you.
And I completely understand what you mean when you state this, but one of your points—when I have seen similar observations expressed by other writers— always strikes me as an insanely strange non-category and gruesome oxymoron:
“As Vermont Right to Life predicted would happen, the standards of professionalism have been lowered for abortion providers, and young girls and women are less safe than ever.”
Abortion providers may have the highest standards of professionalism in the world, while committing the most heinous, barbaric, and violent acts that can be perpetrated against moms and their preborn babies. Even if their standards of professionalism are deemed by some weird criteria to be 100%, young girls, women, and the developing babies in their wombs are 0% safe 100% of the time. There is nothing safe about abortion, no matter how sanitary the conditions or professional the murderer.
“Safe” abortion is in the same category for me as “beneficial” medical experimentation on Holocaust victims and “safe”injection sites.
Thank You Mary, this is why I call Governor Phil Scott, King Philip the Scott 1st Eunuch King of Castrati.
First get rid of Dame. Let’s see if the VTGOP has the will to truly upend things.
Exactly right Martin Green! I added that “young girls and women are less safe” to point out the hypocrisy of those who claim to care about so-called “women’s rights”….the lobbyist for the Vermont Medical Practice Board testified against making abortion drugs available online, but he was mocked and demeaned….
Thank you, Mary, for sharing that.
Because those in favor of abortion hold a morally indefensible position, every red herring argument they use to purport to care about women reveals their hypocrisy and exposes their virtue-signaling inconsistencies.
Kind of like the Ethics Board of the Vermont Medical Society vehemently and self-righteously insisting they would never agree with or allow late-term abortions.
Of course, their trying to appear so ethically lofty and pure actually exposed their hollow claims when not single one of them ever testified against late-term abortion when Prop 5/Article 22 was in the process of ratification. They say they condemned it, but not one of them had the moral will or courage to stand up and speak out against it.
And this, of course, exposed their hypocrisy because it begged the question:
“Okay, if you do not support a preborn baby being murdered in her sixth, seventh, or eight month, why do you support intentionally destroying the life of that same child when she is months, weeks, or days younger than your arbitrary cutoff point?”
All their claims to championing human rights goes out the window with that kind of utter virtue-signaling nonsense.
The longevity of Vermont Right to Life and the sum-total of the experience of Mary Beerworth and all those involved in VRTL has resulted in an impressive library of wisdom and legal accumulation.
Those who support abortion and sadly those who elect them have long since hardened their hearts to the overwhelming evidence that supports life.
If the people of Vermont would give VRTL their due, the outcome would favor life.