Terminating Kate
Steve Waldman of Beliefnet.com posted this video yesterday:
This isn’t so far-fetched, recalling late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart’s quote in the Washington Times only today:
“God gave that fetus a ‘guardian ad litem’ when he chose the mother that fetus is born with,” he said. “That mother, I feel, has been charged by God to make the right choices for that child during its unborn and early born years.”
Waldman described the video as “an effective way of challenging those who get late term abortions out of fear that the baby will be disabled or have Down Syndrome.”…
About late-term abortions, Waldman stated, “We know very little about why these happen.”
I disagree. While the other side scrambles to find stories of supposedly valid reasons late-term abortions are committed, there is ample evidence they’re for reasons of late-term birth control:
Kansas City Star, August 26, 1991, quoting Peggy Jarman of the Pro-Choice Action League: “About three-fourths of [George] Tiller’s late-term patients, Jarman said, are teen-agers who have denied to themselves or their families that they were pregnant until it was too late to hide it.” Fox News, June 13, 2007, quoting psychiatrist Paul McHugh, who examined Tiller’s records for court:
I didn’t think that those records supported the idea that these women were likely to suffer a substantial and irreversible impairment, which was required by law here in KS for their abortion since they were late-term abortions.
They highlighted certain kinds of things, which out of context were hard, of course, to appreciate, but were sometimes of a most trivial sort from saying that, “I won’t be able to go to concerts,” or “I won’t be able to take part in sports,” to more serious ones such as, “I don’t want to give my child up for adoption.”
Waldman’s final point:
Still, I believe that the battle over abortion should be fought within the hearts and minds of women rather than the courts and legislatures. So videos like these are fair game.
I agree part of the pro-life battle is for the hearts and minds of America. But if life begins at conception, legislators and courts are as obligated to protect all preborn human life as they are to protect all postborn innocent human life. Even the crafter of the Roe v. Wade decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Harry Blackmun agreed this is a point of law. In his decision Blackmun wrote:
The appellee … argue that the fetus is a “person” within the language and meaning of the 14th Amendment … If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant’s case, of course, collapses, for the fetus’ right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the Amendment.
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.
What’s next? That!
The clinic where slain Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller worked will be “permanently closed,” his family’s attorneys said Tuesday.
Tiller. 67, performed late-term abortions at the Wichita clinic until he was gunned down by an anti-abortionist in church May 31.
Lee Thompson and Dan Monnat, attorneys for Tiller’s family, said in a statement that “effective immediately, Women’s Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed.
Praise the LORD!!!!!!!
xppc, great news! thanks for the update!
Great News, but I wouldn’t put it past them to be lying to the press and secretly have Carhart aborting children there……I won’t believe it until I see that place shut down AND bulldozed.
That video was chilling and shows the mindset of our society who wants a ‘PERFECT’ child.
I read a post about the legal team getting cut off. The lawyers that worked over tiller apparently would have some kind of monthly retainers. if they kept the business, a lot of legal revenue. The law tells clinics how long to keep and maintain medical records. It will cost money while closed. It would cost a lot more to open.
Ever watch Nancy Grace? Look at all of the teen moms who have missing or dead daughters. Casey Anthony is a psychopath if I’ve ever seen one.
I’ve been following the Casey Anthony story too, heather. I don’t see how anyone can sit there and wring their hands over a woman like that, and then say that abortion is ok. IT’S THE SAME THING, only one has the apparently magical veil of the uterus and a magician (doctor), and the other is a dirty deed done in private. I guess it’s more acceptable if you hire a hitman?
Right. Same thing. Caylee wasn’t wanted by Casey because it wouldn’t free up enough of her time to party. Cindy even offered to adopt Caylee. Casey refused. Pro-aborts send a message..if you don’t want it, kill it. Kill it if it’s getting in the way. So a lot of these women are murdering their tots, and they are being handed very lenient sentences.
Amy Grossberg, 18 years old, threw her newborn son into a freezing dumpster after hiding her pregnancy at college. She only served 2 years in prison. Her mom and dad wanted her to be 100% exonerated!!! Why? Because Amy was afraid to tell her parents about her pregnancy.
That’s not sending a good message to women about killing their newborns.
Heather, that’s a crazy story. Killing of newborns is much more accepted today than it has been in the past. The public image is that it is unacceptable; it is opposite, however, in actual practice.
This is the same as abortion. In public everyone says “I would never want anyone to have an abortion, it’s horrible.” Even though this is widespread sentiment, 1/4 through 1/3 of all pregnancies end in abortion!
In both the murder of newborns and the unborn, “one hand doesn’t know what the other hand is doing.”
That message is inescapable in the age of legal abortion. Since the unborn human is considered property, it really doesn’t matter to the proabort whether the baby is killed in utero or just out. As long as it’s killed.
If we’re tuly pro-life, we will admit to ourselves that killing a baby in the womb, at any stage, is no different than killing a five year, any five year old.
Our non-violent reaction should be the same.
We should speak up, call our legislators, talk to people about it, pray, etc.
The silent majority needs to be made aware of this “Silent Holocaust” occurring right under their noses.
segamon, right. The “life is cheap” message begins with abortion.
No, the video is not really very far fetched. Peter Singer, professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, supports infanticide.
The Netherlands in 2004 has established the Groningen protocols which allows for euthanization not only of infants, but children up to the age of 12. Decisions are made by a committee. Parents can not participate. It was thought initially about 12 -15 infants per year would be euthanized by this; it’s now about 500.
Per Doyle Chadwick’s remark about the child being
“property”, I agree. Reading about the abolitionist struggle and seeing many parallels in the struggle for Life, I have wondered why someone hasn’t challenged legalized abortion on the grounds that it is effectively, a re-institution of slavery. Anyone know of any such challenges?
S. Moore, if you Google the words abortion and slavery you’ll get about 3 million results, some arguments are more thoughtful than others; however, it’s not an especially strong argument.
Abortion and slavery are both morally reprehensible, and Roe vs. Wade was as bad a decision from the Supreme Court as the Dred Scott decision; however, there are those on the pro-abortion side who compare pregnancy with slavery. Former NARAL attorney, Dawn Johnson has said this. She’s been appointed assistant attorney general for the office of legal council in Obama’s administration.
I think the strongest argument when it comes to abortion is that it is either human life or it is not. If it’s not human life, there is no problem, no angst, no right or wrong when it comes to abortion. It would be no more gut-wrenching than having a mole removed or a tooth extracted. If it’s not human life, why should we strive to make it rare? If it’s not human life, there’s nothing wrong with it.
Science is on the side of life beginning at conception. It’s not opinion; it’s fact.