Posted on 12/15/2015 7:36:46 PM PST by Morgana
A number of particularly sickening abortion-related stories have been in the news lately, from an abortionist carrying babiesâ corpses in his car to an abortion facility worker getting pressured by her superiors for respecting a patientâs reluctance to abort, from a home abortion leaving a born baby boy mutilated for life to Planned Parenthood dumping its victimsâ dead bodies in landfills. And then thereâs been the defining controversy of the year, Planned Parenthoodâs criminal organ-harvesting side business.
All of these stories are tremendously valuable in illustrating the true character of the abortion industry. And during a time where the lawâs hands are tied from going after abortion directly, itâs worthwhile to seek whatever justice we can for its lesser crimes not under the Supreme Courtâs protection.
But in our discussions of these lesser scandals, pro-lifers must take great care to keep them in context of the bigger picture, to cite them not as wrongs purely for their own sake but as outgrowths of a far greater wrong.
If every abortionist really was 100% indifferent to the final decision a pregnant woman makes, it wouldnât make their complicity in abortion legitimate. If Planned Parenthood followed every law to the letter and never made a penny from a single organ, the deaths of the babies from which those organs come would still not be respectable. If every abortionist gave each of their victims a reverent burial, the fact remains that they still victimized them.
Fixating too much on the shock value of peripheral abortion scandals runs the risk of losing sight of that fact, appealing to audiencesâ sense of good taste rather than the deeper moral principles in play. Particularly with pervasive muddy thinking about abortion bogging the issue down, it can be easy to rationalize a sort of in-between stance like, I think itâs only potential life but the remains of that potential still deserve some respect. And some reservations, such as wanting the patientâs choice truly unencumbered by outside forces or not wanting those performing the procedure to compromise the patientâs health, are even logically consistent with the pro-choice position.
Think about it: if preborn babies were not real live human children, these controversies wouldnât matter nearly as much. Mishandling fetal remains would be no worse than a hospital being reckless with how it disposes of medical waste from any number of benign surgeries. Disregarding patientsâ wishes and welfare would be more serious, but still relatively routine cases of medical malpractice that we already have plenty of laws for. None of it would warrant significant national attention.
So itâs vital we strive to contextualize each discussion of these stories. Talking about Planned Parenthood dumping dead babies in landfills is important for the parallels it draws to the mass graves of human rights atrocities from Nazi Germany to Saddam Husseinâs Iraq. Detailing the harm Anna Yoccaâs self-abortion did to her son is relevant because itâs a concrete demonstration of the violence in every abortion. Abortionists attempting to take choice away from their own patients is powerful because it undermines the broader credibility of an industry that says it exists to help women. And raising awareness of Planned Parenthoodâs baby parts butchery is essential because it centers the conversation on preborn babiesâ undeniably human characteristics.
The good news is that our labors here are already bearing fruitâthe baby-parts scandal alone has been a major force in turning public opinion against Planned Parenthood. But we also know that the human mindâs capacity for rationalization and reluctance to challenge oneâs preconceived notions are powerful, particularly with a topic as emotionally charged and culturally ingrained as abortion.
So as we go forward, let us strive to always connect every outrage that comes along to the ultimate outrage that makes them all possible.
For some reason, this reminds me of the time I went into a hospital morgue room that was filled with jars of human body parts. It was horrifying. Even though I tried to look as little as possible, what I saw was nearly unbearable. (I had to let a visitor to the morgue use the phone, and the only phone was in that room.)
That leads me to think of the mental/emotional callousness of those involved in the abortion industry. The human tissues they handle are not parts, they are whole babies, babies that they murdered. And they have absolutely no empathy whatsoever, no feelings of dismay or horror or anything when they see and handle those innocents.
The way I see it, a major way to attack the abortion industry is by hammering home the fact that its workers are unfeeling psychopaths. They claim to provide medical care to women--but how can anyone entrust her life and health to people who so cold-bloodedly kill innocent babies?
I have a big picture I’ll never lose sight of:
one of planned parenthood harvesting organs for profit while an innocent baby struggles for his or her life in the one place they should feel the most safe, if only they could have a chance to live,
or Hillary Clinton and that fly infested demonic Obama creature kneeling as they worship at the alter of their god Molech,
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