This is unbelievable: a woman has an abortion induced at 23 weeks gestation, but the abortion is not completed. The baby is born alive, then bled to death and thrown in the trash by one of the clinic owners.
The story itself is horrific, but I’m more amazed by the tone of the newspaper article, and of the people quoted in it. Why is everyone so shocked that this could happen? Why is the mother acting as though she’s been wronged? After all, killing a 23-week old fetus is legal in Florida. The woman visited the clinic three times in the space of one week in order to plan and carry out the death of her unborn child. The child ended up dead. Why is she surprised?
It’s obvious, of course. We all recognize that a child outside the womb is human, and deserves care. But this story highlights the logical and ethical impossibilities of the pro-death position: What essential fact about the child changed when it was born prematurely? Outside her mother’s womb, the baby had the exact same physical makeup as she’d had had a few minutes earlier, inside. She was the same person, whether in the womb or out of it. The clinic owner only carried out the mother’s expressed wish: the death of a child she didn’t want to be burdened with.
Wake up, America. Millions of similar innocent children are murdered every year, and we stand by idly. If this story shocks you, think a little bit about the thousands of helpless babies just like this one killed every day. Simply because their bodies are mangled and mutilated before anyone ever sees them and recognizes their humanity doesn’t change the essential fact.
May God have mercy on this nation, and lead us to stop killing our babies.
February 5, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Ditto. 100 times ditto.
February 6, 2009 at 8:02 am
I also heard the story and agree with you 100%.
February 6, 2009 at 10:21 am
Didn’t a prove that more abortions are done when it is illegal than legal? I agree though, that’s tragic.
February 6, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I agree. To some people it’s a baby at conception if they want it, but if they don’t want it then it’s just a “cluster of cells”
February 6, 2009 at 1:44 pm
“Didn’t a study* prove…”
February 7, 2009 at 9:16 pm
No one would have known if they’d put he/she in the red “Biohazard” bag like they’re supposed to, but my dear Alice, its legal in EVERY state, has been since 1973, and the only chance its got of bein re-illegalized is if the Demos get nervous about how many of their future voters are endin up in red “Biohazard” bags…
As for me, I’ve still got that “Wham” “Choose Life” T-shirt from 1984