Friday, October 15, 2004
"A baby is born when a baby is born."
That, kids, is Barbara Boxer's enlightened explanation of when she would consider a baby had completed the birthing process.
I love Alan Keyes. To-day he was on C-Span discussing the Born-alive program as part of what appeared to be a debate. Appeared to be, because I left before I found out what is was, exactly. I hadn't heard of that particular program so I set about googling it.
Apparently a significant number of abortions result in a live-born child. In other words, the child is basically premature, having survived the induced abortion. The problem is that the children are (sometimes, not always. I don't know on what side the majority lay- only that it's enough to be a concern) left aside to die instead of being given life-saving treatment that any other premature child would.
The argument for this is that the preemie baby is still a fetus. Therefore without rights- including the right to live.
I can't honestly say when I think the fetus becomes a viable human being, but I do know that when a child is delivered(or "extracted", as the case may be)- wriggling with clutched fists- it does not deserve to be stabbed in the back of the neck and have its brain suctioned.
Main Entry: par·tial-birth abortion
Pronunciation: 'pär-sh&l-
Function: noun
: an abortion in the second or third trimester of pregnancy in which the death of the fetus is induced after it has passed partway through the birth canal
I don't understand how such a gruesome event even became an option. We aren't the same society that condemns and ostracizes unwed mothers, teen mothers, or any other member of the abortion clinic-going variety. There are hundreds of methods for birth control. This is not the bygone era where a controlling family and repressive social structure would lead a deranged girl to an unpleasant activity of the coathanger variety. There are shelters, welfare programs, government relief programs, and all kinds of other socialistic and charitable endeavors (Adoption. Adoption. Adoption.) to help those in such circumstances.
Heaven forbid someone tell a woman that there's a difference between sexual freedom and whoredom.
-- G 'Bye, Sonya -- . ( 15.10.04 ) .