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Monday, March 18, 2002
Born alive, no more to die!
Posted: March 18, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Alan Keyes
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
The House of Representatives last week passed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, thanks to the efforts of, among others, two courageous citizen politicians – Illinois state Sen. Pat O'Malley, and nurse Jill Stanek. The measure codifies explicitly what, in less Orwellian times, should have been obvious to everyone – that living human children who have entirely completed the process of birth may not be denied the protection of the law.
The law was made necessary by repeated instances of fully born and living children being denied medical care and left to die, simply because their parents had not wished them to be born alive – and attempted to abort them. Jill Stanek was moved to action originally because she found herself holding a dying infant that no one in her hospital would lift a finger to help.
Of course, it should be equally obvious to everyone that pre-born children are as deserving of protection against violent assault or deadly neglect as born children. Principled pro-lifers are bound to feel a little strange in striking such a vigorous blow to defend exclusively the born children. And the paragraph in the law that explicitly denies that it affects the legal status of abortion can feel a hard pill to swallow.
But Stanek and O'Malley, and the pro-life legislators in Washington, can be very proud of what they have done. First, of course, because however strange it may feel to focus, even for a moment, on saving only some of the innocent, this is the way it must be. We do the good we can, when we can.
But there is another benefit to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, one that does indeed extend to every last innocent child threatened by the abortionist's evil intent. For in exposing the practice of post-abortion infanticide, the law makes manifest and visible the contradiction at the heart of the abortion doctrine. The decision to abort always separates some little human beings from others by mere act of petty human will. Hiding the nature and consequences of this decision is the chief goal of the abortion lobby. Hence their hatred of the use of educational materials that show mothers the true nature of abortion.
But in the tales of dirty hospital linen closets where these fully born children are left to die, in the tales of doctors and nurses standing and watching as infants struggle for life and lose, we see clearly and starkly the perennial desire of some human beings to decide which of their fellow creatures of God will live, and which will die. It is all so much clearer, it seems, once the baby is born.
This contradiction between the demand for dignity and choice for ourselves, and our demand for the power to deny it to others is more hidden from view in abortion than it was in Southern slavery or in Hitler's Germany. In abortion, the womb itself is turned from the quiet and safe place of nurturing care to the dark and hidden sanctuary of the biggest lie of all – that men, and women, can lord it over their brethren, can kill or spare them at will and whim. When that lie leaves the womb, and seeks to work its evil even on born children, we get a good, clear look at it, and a new opportunity to prevent its heinous work.
And that is why abortion's media lackeys are so blatant in their lies about post-birth infanticide. The Associated Press reported the passage of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act as follows: "The House voted today to define a fetus that is fully outside a woman's body as having been born alive, which would give the fetus legal protection"
When the abortion lie is caught killing children outside the womb, the abortion lobby shamelessly renames infants to keep the lie hidden. If an abortionist wants to kill something, then it can't be a baby – it's a fetus that escaped the death chamber. But at all costs the American people must be kept from realizing that the abortion principle involves one human being looking at another and saying, "I choose to kill you, because I am stronger."
Sen. O'Malley is the principled pro-life candidate for governor of Illinois in the March 19 Republican primary. His opponent, Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan, has repeatedly refused to intervene to stop hospital infanticide. The lying media has attempted to suppress O'Malley's candidacy, as it always attempts to suppress the truth about abortion and infanticide to which he and Jill Stanek have testified. O'Malley has the courage and the resolve to fight his way through this thicket of deception, and an army of grassroots pro-lifers is following him. Sen. O'Malley, and Jill Stanek – who is raising the same banner in her race for the state legislature in the 81st District – deserve the fervent support of all defenders of life, and truth.
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Former Reagan administration official Alan Keyes, was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Social and Economic Council and 2000 Republican presidential candidate.