Removal of late term abortion restrictions – choice or infanticide?

Recent legislation passed in New York and taken up in both Virginia and Rhode Island allows virtually no restriction on abortion up to and including the time a woman begins labor. Proponents of this would have you believe that it is rare and only done in extreme cases where there are extraordinary abnormalities with the baby or extenuating circumstances regarding the mother’s life.

But, quite frankly, as the debate over this issue televised in Virginia revealed, these circumstances can be psychological as well as physical, non-descriptive and only require a medical professional’s approval. In essence a no-restriction abortion mandate is a law that does not prosecute but instead allows “abortion” or more simply “murder” of a potentially viable human infant on demand. An infant so fully formed and alive that medical intervention of some magnitude is required to “destroy” or “kill” it. In many cases it is either birthed the traditional way, or taken by Caesarian section.

What type of doctor other than Frankenstein would condone such a grotesque process against a completely helpless fetus whose only crime is trying to survive until its birth? Not one who believed in the Hippocratic Oath they took which says “first, do no harm.”

I am disturbed and outraged that lawmakers of any conscience could vote for allowing the “murder” of babies in our country for any reason or no reason, without restriction. If they are asking us to believe this is a choice, then let’s talk about why it is not but rather it is murder of a baby — infanticide.

Most medical professionals agree the age of viability for a fetus outside the womb begins at 24 weeks. The youngest fetus born that has survived is 21 weeks in 2014. Recent advances in sonography show a fully formed infant much younger at 12 weeks.

Most states will charge one accused of the murder of a pregnant woman with two counts of murder, acknowledging a fetus of any age as a person. Let’s also note that modern medicine tells us a fetus has fully developed pain receptors by 20 weeks. I imagine acid or a scalpel introduced into a pregnant woman’s uterus late in pregnancy as part of the abortion procedure could be considered the assault, or murder weapon?

Modern science in the 46 years since Roe v. Wade became the law has done nothing but disprove previous belief that an unborn baby is a blob of cells that isn’t alive and doesn’t feel pain. How can we dispute what we know to be true? We do ourselves a great disservice by lying to defy our conscience.

Whether we believe in a higher power or we don’t, you cannot disprove the inherent fact that after a baby is conceived in a mother’s womb, the cycle of life begins and until birth a baby grows and develops and for all intensive purposes is a human being on a schedule toward birth. Any human being in the world today was once formed in its mother’s womb and did not just become, poof, a human being at birth. That argument is absurd on its face.

Let’s call recent legislative actions and discussions what they are and not lie to ourselves. Late term abortion for whatever reason is only a choice allowing a mother and a doctor to commit murder, with a no-restriction abortion law in place that protects them from prosecution.

This is a call to action for all people of conscience. If our lawmakers don’t know better and won’t protect the unborn from being murdered, then they must hear our voices louder! Call your representatives and tell them to protect the right to life of the unborn and outlaw late-term abortion. We can no longer condone and must expose this monstrous lie and dreadful threat to humanity wrongly called a medical procedure.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.