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Where is the line that separates abortion from infanticide?\u00a0 A rather remarkable video<\/a> has been making the rounds in which a Planned Parenthood representative argues for the legality of post-birth abortion at a Florida legislative hearing.\u00a0 The question is whether abortionists should be required to provide medical care to unexpected abortion survivors.<\/p>\n

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“If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

“We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And so, as the grisly reality of abortion in Philadelphia<\/a> is slowly finding its way into the public consciousness (despite the best efforts of major news outlets), we must also consider the ongoing efforts to keep shifting that all-sanitizing line between abortion and infanticide a little bit further out.<\/p>\n

Now, it is entirely understandable (which is not <\/strong>to say reasonable) that a woman who undergoes a botched abortion would want to finish the job.\u00a0 She walks into an abortion clinic afraid or indignant or repulsed at the thought of raising a child, but also expecting the unpleasant and unwanted circumstance to finally be terminated.\u00a0 And then, simply because a doctor screws up, all of the sudden, some cold and clinical figure is explaining to her that she is now a mother and that her child has somehow became sick or injured & requires treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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How could such a thing be?\u00a0 It’s quite absurd that the subject of an abortion suddenly becomes off-limits simply by virtue of having moved a few feet.\u00a0 It’s absurd that a procedure that prevents motherhood should suddenly and without warning actually make someone a mother.\u00a0 Why should such absurdities be allowed to stand?\u00a0 Who wouldn’t want a do-over in such circumstances?\u00a0 Even our President doesn’t want her to be punished with a baby.\u00a0 So why shouldn’t the mother and her physician be able to decide to make good on their original plan to murder her child<\/del> prevent an unwanted motherhood?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And so Planned Parenthood and others try to nudge that line a little bit further out so that post-birth murders can be called “abortions” just like pre-birth murders already are.\u00a0 If we can just make a few adjustments, they think, then these absurdities can be resolved and women will no longer have to suffer them.<\/p>\n

But that line, wherever it may be placed, doesn’t distinguish between an innocent human being and something else.\u00a0 It doesn’t distinguish between a child and a tumor.\u00a0 Indeed, it’s so blurry and difficult to find as it flickers from one place to the next that it cannot help distinguish anything at all.\u00a0 It’s sole purpose is as a salve to the consciences of the murderers, the mothers who hire them, and the lobbyists who earn their blood-money at hearings.\u00a0 It doesn’t need to be visible to do that; it just needs to be located a little bit off to their left so that they can tell others they’re on the right side.\u00a0 And if nobody else can see the line or tell where it is? \u00a0 Well, that just makes it easier to exclaim how they are properly placed in relation to it.<\/p>\n

But in the end, situations like these are not absurd because the line needs to be adjusted.\u00a0 They are absurd because abortion doesn’t prevent women from becoming mothers–it’s merely one bloody way in which mothers deal with the children they already have.\u00a0 The reality is that the line on which their peace of mind depends doesn’t actually exist.\u00a0 Christ have mercy on us all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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