“A rat has a heartbeat, too.” I used to say this, as a pro
choice atheist, in response to the fact that a fetus has a heartbeat. How could
I say such a thing? What was wrong with me? Well, I will argue that as an
atheist, absolutely nothing was wrong with my line of thinking. In fact, it was
only natural.
I’ve tried to stay away from the abortion issue, but for the
first time today, I found out what, exactly, partial-birth abortion is. Now,
all abortion is horrible, but this particular method, once legal in many
states, is just beyond the pale of all evil. Partial-birth abortion is very true to
its name. Once the pregnancy is too far along, like 25 or 26 weeks
(which the baby is viable at that point), the doctor can no longer just use
forceps for an abortion. They artificially force it to be born. Except the
head, of course, because if the whole body was delivered, it would legally be a
child. I honestly am struggling how to describe this… so I will let Brenda
Pratt Shafer, a nurse who worked at an abortion clinic, describe the
partial-birth abortion of a 26 1/2 week old baby with down syndrome.
“Dr. Haskell brought the ultrasound in and hooked it up so
that he could see the baby. On the ultrasound screen, I could see the heart
beating. As Dr. Haskell watched the baby on the ultrasound screen, the baby's
heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. Dr. Haskell went in
with forceps and grabbed the baby's legs and pulled them down into the birth
canal. Then he delivered the baby's body and the arms-- everything but the
head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little
fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his feet were kicking. Then the
doctor stuck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms
jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks
that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered
suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby
was completely limp.”
Brenda’s account has been corroborated, and the clinic even
admitted that she worked there as a nurse. I just don’t know how anyone
can read that account, or look up a video of the procedure being done (which is
easily found on Youtube), and not fight the urge to vomit. Thankfully, there is
a ban on partial-birth abortion in America since 2003, but Planned Parenthood
has been seeking to overturn it via the courts.
Which brings me to my next point… Do you want to know why
Planned Parenthood is trying to reinstate children’s brains being sucked out by
a tube? It sure as hell doesn’t have to do with women’s health, I can tell you
that. They’re doing this because they don’t believe in God. Put simply, if you
don’t believe that God created humans in His image, and that we all have a
soul, then of course you’re not going to care if fetuses are killed. After all,
even a rat has a heartbeat, right?
This godless problem is rampant in liberal Hollywood circles
(and I say that as someone whose blog is called liberalmuffin). One of the most
high profile defenders of abortion is Peter Singer, an atheist professor who
somehow has tenure at not just any university, but Princeton. He literally has
argued not just for abortion, but for infanticide. He claims that since a
newborn baby is incapable of rational thought, then it is not a person. His
views are succinctly summed up in this one quote from him, “Membership of the
species Homo sapiens is not enough to confer a right to life.”
I have a question for Peter Singer though: Where’s the
cutoff? Why not euthanize a five year old with Down Syndrome? I mean, our
culture already aborts them as babies. Maybe we should just jump ahead to the
logical conclusion of all this and execute everyone who is “unfit.” Where have
I heard that before? I’m sure a certain mustachioed man would like Peter
Singer… and I ain’t talking about Mario.
Please, if you’re thinking about getting an abortion, know
that there really are options. Your child deserves to be loved.
Personally i don't believe that God would ever be okay with abortion in any form therefore i am pro life and i know full well that abortion is being backed by mad scientist eugenicists who wan't to get the worlds population down by whatever means will work best for them. Eugenics is a very malevolent branch of science and sadly it appears to be gaining momentum again. Over in Europe they are actually debating child euthanasia for autistic children right now which i find very disturbing to say the least. Think about it if someone doesn't want to raise a child why not adopt it out to someone who will love and nourish the child?
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree. Children need love.
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