Pro-life news brief 4-18-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The Florida House has passed their born alive legislation with a 119-0 vote:
Temporarily setting aside debate over the legality of abortion, the Florida House unanimously passed a measure Wednesday that would require doctors to provide emergency care if a failed abortion somehow produces an infant who is born alive.HB 1129, sponsored by Avon Park Republican Rep. Cary Pigman, passed 119-0. Along with requiring that doctors provide care, the bill requires that cases of live births following an abortion attempt be reported.
- Meanwhile, RH RealityCheck’s Robin Marty calls an infant who is born alive after a failed abortion a “fetus”:
The “Planned Parenthood infanticide” faux-scandal Blackburn evokes refers to a debate on the floor for a recent bill in Florida where the legislature proposed “aid” to any fetus “born alive after a botched abortion.”The legislation is titled, “Infants Born Alive” and I don’t see the term “fetus” anywhere in the text yet Marty’s years as an abortion advocate must compel her to use the term “fetus” to describe infants who survive abortion.
- Some have portrayed Kermit Gosnell as a predator who lured women to his clinic with low prices. Gosnell’s defense will attempt to paint a different portrait. During testimony yesterday, a former employee notes that sometimes Gosnell would perform abortions without being paid:
Lewis also acknowledged during cross-examination that Gosnell would go ahead with abortions even if the patient did not have enough money, and many patients never returned to pay their bills.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer has an editorial by Father Frank Pavone (pictured left):
Kermit Gosnell has been accused of “snipping” the spinal cords of babies born alive in his Philadelphia abortion clinic. Is such behavior crazy, or does it simply follow the logic of an industry that believes the mother’s choice overrides any right to protection that the baby has?
Now I’m not saying Gosnell, if found guilty, shouldn’t be held accountable for the eight murders he is charged with. But I am suggesting that a certain set of presumptions has been created by our public policies on abortion and the arguments made to justify these policies. If we are horrified by what happened at Gosnell’s clinic, we have to examine what that connection might be.
Statistics from the Guttmacher Institute show that, in the United States, about 18,000 abortions occur annually – and legally – at 21 weeks of pregnancy and beyond. These are babies the size of a large banana.
- At Catholic Vote, Michael J. New describes the continued media blackout on abortion misconduct, listing examples like abortionist LeRoy Carhart’s negligence – resulting in the death of Jennifer Morbelli – as well as Live Action’s Planned Parenthood stings.
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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 unanimous approval of born alive legislation in Florida is yet another in a series of momentum building prolife victories.
Similar legislation was proposed years ago in the Illinois state senate and as we know the young senator Barack Obama thought it posed a threat to abortion rights so he would have the live babies neglected and allowed to die rather than save innocent lives. The cowardly Obama would like children to die without treatment and there is nothing that he has said since his days in Illinois that would suggest he has changed his mind.
Yep. It always unnerves pro-legal abortionists to have the “actual person” connected for them in any way to the “non-human fetus/embryo” that that person was however long before they depart from their mothers. Whether it’s “born alive fetuses”, my daughter, Jack…abortion supporters just recoil at the reality of what abortion means for “actual people”. That’s why they hate the successful abortion pictures so much. Those little hands and feet sure do look an awful lot like hands and feet belonging to “actual persons”.
So Gosnell performed abortions for the love of it then…he killed, not for the money, but because he truly enjoyed killing. *shudders*
“Whether it’s “born alive fetuses”, my daughter, Jack…abortion supporters just recoil at the reality of what abortion means for “actual people”. That’s why they hate the successful abortion pictures so much. Those little hands and feet sure do look an awful lot like hands and feet belonging to “actual persons”.”
I’m a real boy! Lol. But yeah, they really don’t like confronting people who would have lost their lives. Which is why they do the world’s strangest justifications (mentally ill women aren’t allowed reproductive rights? lol) to avoid telling me I shouldn’t be alive.
“…the bill requires that cases of live births following an abortion attempt be reported”.
Yea…I’m not gonna hold my breath for THAT one!
I mean, abortionists have been so diligent about reporting ALL abortions and abortion-related maternal complications/deaths, now haven’t they?! (SARCASM)
All the Florida House did was vote for legislation giving just-born humans the same rights to life and medical care as all other people. It is not an anti-abortion bill it is an anti-infanticide bill, legally. Of course, beyond legality, it is all infanticide.
Even if it is a fetus, Robin Marty, because a fetus is a human in a certain stage of development. For the record, an already born human is not a fetus, whether you call it one to suit your pro-abortion and pro-infanticide (again, same thing) or not.