Gosnell trial shows pro-choicers are “running away from reason”
[Planned Parenthood] and the pro-choice movement in general now have the following struggle on their hands: can they offer the impartial observer — who now has read the transcript of the Gosnell trial — a reasoned argument claiming that abortion is not murder?
… Gosnell killed live babies, but what he did to them inside the womb was indistinguishable to what he did to them outside the womb. New challenges to the pro-choice movement will involve this fact, one which leads inevitably, and immediately, to issues of reason….
In a state of nature, sans government, intentionally killing a live baby is still aberrant because it is hard-coded… that mentally stable humans wish to live. Even babies too young to fathom their own existence… are composed of elements designed for survival in their habitat, like limbs and lungs, so just like every other species, they were born to survive. Note that the nervous system is in on it, too — newborns avoid discomfort and pain, and do not attempt to kill themselves….
How has Gosnell changed the discourse? Irrelevant, manmade concepts such as “viability,” “wanted vs. unwanted,” “woman’s right to choose,” etc., now have been widely revealed and understood as “running away from reason” topics — which they logically must be….
After Gosnell, the intellectually honest and inquisitive must accept that abortion necessarily involves the taking of life….
Of course, intellectual honesty is not a requirement, but a choice.
~ David Steinberg, PJ Media, April 23
[Photos via feminist.org, Newsbusters.org]
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.
It’s never been about reason, or morality, or justice. It’s always been about raw power.
Illegal abortion became a widespread phenomenon in the west during the 19th century. In the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries, something very different was happening: infanticide and abandonment. As if by magic, those crimes began to wane right as abortion began to wax. All the details can be found in the opening chapters of Joseph Dellapenna’s excellent book Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History. You can generally only find it in law libraries, but if you can it’s a true treasure trove on the history of abortion.
We have to do a MUCH better job of reaching the women that think they “need” to get an abortion. It takes a certain level of desperation to feel your baby kicking and then pay someone to kill it. At least for most.
We all need to contribute as much $ & time as possible if we are going to win this war.
Every time I see those photos my heart breaks. How can anyone even attempt to deny that those are babies, children, and they were brutally murdered? If those tiny bodies had been found in a field, there would have been almost universal outrage, outcry and a call for justice.