Pro-life blog buzz 5-3-13
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- At Live Action News, Kristen Hatten discusses “why Kermit Gosnell should be acquitted”:
I want Kermit Gosnell walking the streets. I want him free because there is nothing he did that is incompatible with a pro-abortion ideology. I want him to serve as a constant reminder that abortion and infanticide are the same thing, and it was the Supreme Court’s idea – supported by around half of the citizens of this country – that some doctors are murderers who get to be free citizens. - At New Feminism, Béatrice Fedor describes characteristics she has noticed among those calling themselves “pro-choice moms.”
- Pro-life Action League says the Planned Parenthood in Wilmington, Delaware (pictured left) has been closed, pending investigation into unsafe conditions:
Conditions at the Wilmington clinic were described as “ridiculously unsafe” and five women were rushed to the hospital due to complications in the past three months alone. - In the Washington Times, Father Frank Pavone describes “how the human conscience dies slowly, one killing at a time”:
Each of us has a natural psychological and physical barrier to killing someone. In normal circumstances, we just can’t bring ourselves to do it. This is part of our humanity. Killing is easier when one dehumanizes the victim first. Bullies engage in name-calling before beating up their victims. Yet in dehumanizing the victim, the perpetrator dehumanizes himself. So it is with abortionists. - ProLifeNZ reports that “[a] New Zealand doctor has been suspended by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal from practicing medicine for 6 months after three of her patients were unlawfully prescribed the abortion drug misoprostol.”
- At Real Choice, Christina Dunigan recalls her experience working with Mark Crutcher to write the haunting accounts of abortion injuries for the book, Lime 5 (pictured right).
- Pro-Life New Mexico describes an encounter with a post-abortive woman outside Planned Parenthood in Albuquerque, and reminds us that what women need most is to know that we love their babies and them.
- Vital Signs points out that the language of “life at conception” was always accepted until the advent of certain birth control devices designed to prevent implantation. However, redefining the terms doesn’t redesign the actual science of life.
- Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life notes Europe’s trend toward eliminating the sufferers instead of their suffering, through euthanasia and assisted suicide:
Some patients, including many disabled newborn babies, are euthanized even though they have made no request for death. Switzerland, meanwhile, has become a haven for “suicide tourism,” a place where people come, many of them merely disabled or depressed, and are helped to kill themselves.Rather than eliminate the suffering—by caring for those who need help, fixing their depression, and so on—Europe is increasingly choosing to eliminate the sufferers. This is disturbing stuff…..
Even worse… euthanasia followed by organ harvesting has become a reality.
[PP photo via Down on the Pharm]

Clever. The abortion advocates are in a difficult place. For some, they actually do not see a problem with killing a newly born human. Some involved with delivery of abortion may have some idea of how often a baby is born alive despite the attmepts to kill it before delivery – and if this news gets out to the mainstream, they will lose a certain degree of the weak pro-choice sentiment in the general public.
Many realize that the implication of the Gosnell tragedy is that abortionists are not generally under any sort of oversight as is the rest of medicine, and the general public will eventually figure this out and desire equivalent oversight.
The abortionists will not be able to argue this one for very much longer. So, they will have to adopt a position of supporting some degree of oversight, and will have to lose the oversight legislative strategy as a rhetorical rallying cry of right-wing politics.
The issue will no longer be: those calling for reasonable oversight of the practice of abortion are right-wing extremists; the issue will be: what manner of oversight is proper?
They will then have to join a policy discussion of proper procedures for oversight.
Anything that allows daylight into the abortion business will be harmful to the abortion busines.
The story from Pro Life New Mexico reminds us of what being pro-life is really all about. Pro-life doesn’t just mean pro-baby it means pro all lives and all of life. Women do need to know we care about their babies. They need to know we care about them too, no matter what.
The story from Christina Dunigan at Real Choice about the writing of Lime 5 is gripping. As is the book Lime 5, though it is a difficult read to be sure.