Life Links 1-3-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The Washington Times has a New Year’s piece featuring abortion proponents complaining about President Obama’s supposed failures on the abortion front.
- MSNBC has the story of a woman who was reunited with her biological daughter 77 years after the child was adopted.
- New York prosecutors have dropped self-abortion charges against a woman who used abortion drugs to self-abort and then dumped the child in a dumpster.
- In case you missed it, abortionists Steven Brigham and Nicola Riley have been charged with multiple counts of murder, presumably for killing viable unborn children. Both have been arrested and Marylandauthorities are working on their extraditions:Maryland criminal law states that people can be charged with murder if they “intend to cause the death of the viable fetus.” The law does not define “personhood” and states it is not intended to infringe on a woman’s right to have an abortion.
But state law also defines a fetus as “viable” if “there is a reasonable likelihood of the fetus’ sustained survival outside the womb.”
Brigham provided abortions to five patients ranging from 18 to 33 weeks pregnant, according to a report by the New Jersey State Board of Medical Examiners.
The determination of whether those fetuses were “viable” could occur in court.
- On New Year’s Day, a Pensacola abortion clinic was burned:
The Florida Fire Marshal’s Office is heading the investigation, but the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have joined in because of the location of the blaze, said Deborah Cox, spokeswoman for the marshal’s office.
“Because of the structure that was involved, because it was an abortion clinic,” she said.
A preliminary investigation found that the fire began outside the clinic, Cox said.
It appears the burned clinic is linked to arrested abortionist Steven Brigham:
American Family Planning lists its physical address at 6770 N. Ninth Ave. and its mailing address as 1 Alpha Ave. in Voorhees, N.J., according to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.
The New Jersey address used by Brigham is the location of American Women’s Services, which offers abortion and gynecological services.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The lunatic fringe who burn clinics probably don’t give thought to the possibility that some firefighter might actually die battling the blaze that becomes a threat to surrounding businesses and homes.
The whole possibility of viability puts all late-term abortions into a very problematic category. It also points out something bizarre about abortion itself: this is a medical procedure in which finding someone ALIVE causes panic!
When I was a child, years before Roe v. Wade, I saw a headline on a confessions magazine: “After Abortion: Your Baby Was Born Alive!” The idea was macabre but it puts the entire macabre part of abortion into focus: that unexpected life would lead to chaos and confusion.
Of course, this isn’t the ONLY instance when that happens. The other is executions. After the switch is pulled and a doctor examines and finds a heartbeat, there can be considerable consternation.
However, I’d like to point out an issue with infants born alive in abortions. I’ve been called anti-adoption because I’ve pointed out negative facts associated with this practice — facts that ought to be of special concern to anyone who really values life. Yet in the case of an infant born alive in an abortion, isn’t it bizarre that the mother would automatically get custody?
Would it be more appropriate to make adoption mandatory in such a case?
Another facet: Did the father want the abortion? If he didn’t, should HE — rather than the mother — automatically receive custody?
semantics. an embryo is human a fetus is human. doctors and obgyns all know that a fetus is human but the liberal feminists try to keep this term alive to make it easier to allow women to keep killing. hitler ” the Jews are useless eaters…parasites. gloria steinem ” a woman has a right to have a parasite removed from her body.”
The prospect of self-abortion does put the outlawing of abortion in something of a bind. Most don’t want to prosecute the pregnant girl or woman and realize that this would be very unpopular anyway. However, there really isn’t an “abortionist” in a self-abortion. I suppose you could prosecute anyone who sells items that could be used as abortifacients if that is their primary purpose.