Posted on 02/08/2019 5:27:47 AM PST by yesthatjallen
In America, we are entering a new chapter in the effort to protect life. Many of the old euphemisms obscuring the truth about abortion are fading and, for better or for worse, Americans no longer can avoid the truth.
Consider the events of the past few weeks:
On Jan. 22, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York signed a law legalizing abortion for the entire 40 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy — literally up until the moment of full-term delivery. Almost immediately, abortion advocates in Vermont, Rhode Island and Virginia began pushing similar laws.
On Jan. 30, Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia stated he would sign into law a bill allowing newborns to be “aborted.”
And on Monday night, Democrats in the U.S. Senate blocked a unanimous consent bill that would have protected newborn babies from this terrible fate.
In the past, abortion advocates based their arguments on “exceptional cases” — women who are pregnant from rape, mired in hopeless poverty, or facing life-threatening health complications. In the more recent past, the center of the pro-abortion ethos was the claim that having an abortion is not unlike getting your appendix removed: a minor medical procedure that deals with unnecessary tissue.
That was then. This is now. If there were any doubt about what kind of world abortion gives us, there is no longer.
The days of “safe, legal and rare” are far behind us. The gruesome records from Kermit Gosnell’s now-shuddered “House of Horrors” abortion business in Philadelphia are readily available online, detailing how women lost their lives and babies were murdered with scissors.
However fiercely abortion advocates may cling to the claim that abortion is “safe,” the truth is that surgical abortion is a procedure that can put women’s lives in jeopardy. Chemical abortions such as RU-486 are no better for women. Many women report adverse reactions, including hemorrhage and serious infection.
Abortion in America is anything but “rare.” It is so poorly regulated that it is impossible to get an accurate count, but at least 54 million babies have been aborted in America since Roe v. Wade.
All of this while we’ve made incredible advances in neonatal screening technology to make clear that a baby in the womb — even at very early stages of development — is much more than inanimate tissue. We know that just a few weeks after conception, a fetus moves, sleeps, wakes and responds to stimuli such as a mother’s voice. At an eight-week ultrasound, an expectant mother sees her baby’s head, body, arms and legs, and hears her baby’s heart beating. The images from an ultrasound are so compellingly human that most women considering abortion who see these images choose life.
All this has fundamentally changed the narrative about abortion. Abortion advocates have come to the unavoidable end of their own logic. They face a choice: either uphold the dignity of all human beings, including pre-born babies, or embrace a terrible calculus that ranks certain human lives as less valuable than others.
New York’s law and its counterparts authorize the destruction of a 39-week-old human being, with fingernails, hair and a distinctive face. Who can say this human being is not worth protecting? And if a life in the womb is not worth protecting, what about a life outside the womb? My life? Your life?
New York’s law is a terrible affront to the dignity of human life. If we can kill a baby in the womb, early in her development, what’s to stop us from killing her at any stage, including after birth? If we are comfortable with a chemical abortion at eight weeks, there is little to stop us from embracing a surgical abortion at 38 weeks.
As crushing as New York’s law is, it also presents an opportunity to look behind the curtain at the very heart of the arguments for abortion. The euphemisms have been swept away. Now every American who believes that all human life is a gift and a blessing worth protecting must be bold in speaking the truth.
We persist in defending life as a constitutional and a natural right. We are bold in telling a woman that she does have a choice — that she can give her baby life. And perhaps this law will go down in history as the beginning of the end of America’s disregard for the least among us.
Kristen Waggoner is senior vice president, U.S. legal division, for Alliance Defending Freedom.
It strikes at the heart of what it is to be a woman; someone who gives life.
Ask the charitable foundations if they stand with the disabled being killed on the delvery table because “I don’t want a baby that looks like THAT”.
March of Dimes ‘prevents birth defects’ via abortion. What about babies who’ve been born? Still ok?
Andrew Cuomo is the most fundamentally evil man to hold high office in the United States. Yet he does not exist in a political vacuum. He was elected by a hedonistic, decadent, ignorant and daff population that has come to dominate New York and other regions of the United States. Eventually there will be a great reckoning which will not be pleasant.
So the sociopaths who support baby killing will come to regret it? Really?
New York political leaders love killing babies and have no regrets—that is how it is.
so true. I live right now in Western NY and the politicians in the city are unhinged! What both houses in New York went to Rats knew the insane was going to happen!
Abortion has killed more women and more minorities in America than all wars, violence and guns combined since Columbus set foot in the New World, in just 46 years. Women’s greatest fear should be abortion. At this rate the Democrats will soon legalize euthanizing born babies that have deformities, born of the “wrong race” or “Wrong Sex”
We'll see how this plays out on the national stage if he runs.
The Spartans allegedly used to grade newborns at birth. If any defects were found, they were supposedly dispatched.
Don’t all liberals agree that the Spartans were barbaric? How are they different?
The way I see it, New York is a terrible place. I despise most New Yorkers, and their voters are a threat to every political principle I hold. With that in mind, I'd say it's in this country's best interest for these mutants to kill themselves off as quickly as possible.
Abort a New Yorker ... help Make America Great Again.
So he wants to walk into the White House on a red carpet soaked in baby blood?
That’s pretty demonic, Andrew.
Maybe you should sew yourself a spiffy suit made out of them too, Andrew, and just walk around in it all day long.
People in NY believe that they can forever have a “Cuomo” regardless of the name.
That’s the irony. Democrats destroying future voters. That’s why they’ve turned to illegals as their new voting base
YES. Abortion is anti-HUMAN. A crime against humanity.
What shocked the jurors in the Gosnell trial most was not what Gosnell did (which did shock them), but rather what they learned that some of the horrific stuff he did was actually legal. They couldn’t believe the laws allowed this stuff.
You are correct that the people of power and influence want a Cuomo regardless of the name. That's why the detestable Al D'Amato leads Republicans for Cuomo every four years and will lead Republicans for New Cuomo when il sfaccimm Andrew is done. That RINO effort either kneecaps a good Republican candidate like Rob Astorino in 2014 (with help from fat DB Chris Christie) or ensures a bad Republican candidate like Marc Molinaro in 2018.
However, the average RAT voter simply pulls or now fills in the square for whatever RAT candidate is listed. That's how we could have insane statements made concerning the Attorney General race like, "Little-known Keith Wofford is going against New York City Public Advocate Letitia James," as if James were a household name anywhere outside her living room.
A standing ovation. All that was missing was a pentangle and a slaughtered goat.
“A standing ovation. All that was missing was a pentangle and a slaughtered goat.”
Who needs a goat? They went straight to human sacrifice.
If only Cardinal Dolan would get some guts and excommunicate him, it would send a message to people like Nancy Pelosi and other phoney Catholics in Washington that the Church would no longer tolerate their crap.
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