this%20common%20secret.jpgAbortionist Susan Wicklund is on the circuit touting her new book, This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor.
From interviews and reviews I get that Wicklund was inspired to her career path by an abortion she had herself at age 22 by a typical thug who told her to “shut up and lie still.”
But abortion was in Wicklund’s genes. Her grandmother killed a girl during an illegal abortion, or as Wicklund put it, “The young girl that was pregnant, and that my grandmother helped, died.”
So much fodder. She admits in the book “of an abortion she performed for a rape victim, only to find out afterward that the fetus she terminated was conceived earlier than thought and would have been the much-loved child of the woman and her husband,” according to SFGate.com….


wicklund2.jpgBut nevermind the whoopsies, let’s talk logic. To an interviewer’s question, “What do you say when people tell you that ‘abortion is murder’?” Wicklund appears to first say aborted babies don’t look human, so it’s not murder to abort them.
But then she says they do look human, just rudimentarily, like a car on an assembly line.
I’ve heard that argument before, but it’s not a good one. In a preborn human, all the parts are there, they just have to develop, like a Polaroid snapshot that starts out black but slowly develops into the picture it always was.
Here is Wicklund’s rationale as to why preborn babies are like unfinished cars:

Well I obviously don’t believe that. I think that it is ending a potential life but it is not a living, breathing, conscious human at this point. To me murder has to be an act against an independent being that can function on its own. If the people who say that would spend time in a clinic and see what actually is the result of an abortion, what comes out of the uterus, I believe they would have to rethink it themselves, and many of them would decide it isn’t murder.
Looking at 12 weeks from last menstrual period, this is the end of the first trimester. There is a recognizable embryo; recognizable as human. It cannot feel pain, or think, or have any sense of being at this point. The woman is not aware of it physically; she cannot feel any movement.
When I talk about embryonic development, I use the analogy of building a house. Early on you walk by a lot and you see they have started bulldozing and maybe built a foundation. You know there’s going to be a building, but you don’t know what it is yet. And a couple of weeks later you see some walls up. It’s definitely going to be a building, maybe a house or garage, but you don’t know what yet. With an embryo at some stage you know it will be a vertebrate. It has gills and a tail, but you don’t know if it will be a fish or a horse or cow or a human. You can’t distinguish with the naked eye at this point.
Eventually the building takes the shape of a house and it has openings for windows and doors; it has that kind of structure. It’s the same with the embryo at some point. You can tell it’s going to be human; but it still can’t function on its own. At some point the windows and doors go in but no electricity or plumbing or the wires and pipes are there but they don’t work yet. You can’t turn on lights or water; you can’t move into the house and be warm and live there. That’s where we’re at with a 12 week embryo. It’s recognizable as human, you’ve got all the body parts, but nothing is hooked up and functioning on its own; nothing can sustain its own life.

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