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March 06, 2006
Partial-“Birth” Abortion
The idea of waiting for a fetus to be nearly born before aborting seems monstrous. It is no wonder that upon hearing the phrase "partial-birth" abortion we have a natural revulsion, and are moved to demand congress ban such a heinous procedure. Expect that the phrase is a misnomer, created with political malice aforethought.
It ought to be obvious, and with a little thought, it is. Who can imagine a woman thinking "dum-de-dum, It’s been eight and a half months. I’m bored. I don't want this anymore. To hell with stimulating birth, the whole thing just seems like too much work"... Given how absurd it is to even contemplate, we can know that something else must be going on. And there is.
This is a Partial-Birth Abortion:
My doctor came in a moment later, slid the ultrasound sensor around my growing, round belly and put her hand on my shoulder. “It’s not alive,” she said.[...]
I’d been through labor and delivery three times before, with great joy as well as pain, and the notion of going through that profound experience only to deliver a dead fetus (whose skin was already starting to slough off, whose skull might be collapsing) was horrifying.
Would we make those women give birth to death? Is it fair to ask someone to go through the most spiritual and holy experience a human can have this side of meeting a deity—only to have a rotting corpse spew forth from her loins? Only a sick society would demand such a perversion...
Posted by Andrew at March 6, 2006 08:29 PM
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