Posted on 07/26/2015 9:57:02 AM PDT by Morgana
IN an essay in his 1976 collection, “Mortal Lessons,” the physician Richard Selzer describes a strange suburban scene. People go outside in the morning in his neighborhood, after the garbage trucks have passed, and find “a foreignness upon the pavement,” a softness underfoot.
Looking down, Selzer first thinks he sees oversize baby birds, then rubber baby dolls, until the realization comes that the street is littered with the tiny, naked, all-too-human bodies of aborted fetuses.
Later, the local hospital director speaks to Selzer, trying to impose order on the grisly scene. It was an accident, of course: The tiny corpses were accidentally “mixed up with the other debris” instead of being incinerated or interred. “It is not an everyday occurrence. Once in a lifetime, he says.”
And Selzer tries to nod along: “Now you see. It is orderly. It is sensible. The world is not mad. This is still a civilized society…
“But just this once, you know it isn’t. You saw, and you know.”
Resolute abortion rights supporters would dismiss that claim of knowledge. Death and viscera are never pretty, they would say, but something can be disgusting without being barbaric. Just because it’s awful to discover fetuses underfoot doesn’t mean the unborn have a right to life.
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WOW....the media actually said it.
Yes, but it seems they treated it with much less import than a toxic spill of some sort.
The American Holocaust.
When the Americans liberated the NAZI death camps - they forced the local Germans to go to the camps and see the evil there.
That way they could never say “We did not know”
Great article; I read it earlier, and what horrible, I repeat horrible, commentary following it. Don’t abort, ladies. It’s all downhill from there.... [unless, of course, you repent!] ...
It is amazing that the NY Times printed this, but only on its op-ed page. Also, Ross Douthat is the token conservative commentator in the Times op-ed section.
As slavery was the “peculiar institution” practiced in the States prior to the Civil War, so is abortion the currently practiced “peculiar industry”.
But, if you can stand it, read the comments. You would think you had descended into Hell and were listening to the babbling of the foulest demons there. These people ACTUALLY THINK ABORTION IS GOOD!
Woe to those who call evil good. May God judge them, ever so severely. We too must repent for letting this happen in our country.
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