Planned Parenthood – bloodthirsty ghouls. Emphasis added:
In 2017, a Planned Parenthood client came forward to share her story of wanting an abortion at 22-weeks and seeking that procedure from Planned Parenthood. The abortionists at the clinic walked her through the procedure and stated if they were “to proceed with the abortion and the baby was to come out still alive and active, most likely we would break the baby’s neck.”
This practice carried out by Planned Parenthood abortionists in Minnesota directly violates the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, that states if the baby “breathes or has a beating heart” regardless of “whether the umbilical cord has been cut” or if birth occurred by “induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion.”
The Planned Parenthood client who came forward engaged in a two-day abortion procedure. On the second day, she had a change of heart and decided she wanted to keep her baby and continue her pregnancy. She expressed how insistent the abortionists were on continuing the abortion and felt “as if they were trying to sell me this abortion.” She finally convinced them to let her keep her baby and now has a happy and healthy child.
I try to keep calm and collected about this kind of thing, but my disgust is starting to grow claws.
If one were to change a few words, the first paragraph reads like it was published by the failing New York Times.
A single anonymous source does not a story make.
Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely not a fan of Planned Parenthood in any way, shape or form – but what is good for the journalistic goose, is good for the gander.
Anonymous source, and worth noting is that they’ve not violated the law by talking like Dr. Mengele. Can’t investigate something that’s legal, really.
Much has been made of the apparent lurch into infanticide on the part of abortionists and their supporters. Legislators are trying to shore-up the gaps in the law that leave abortionists exposed to criminal penalty. Those gaps have always been there, but until recently, haven’t been known to anyone outside of the abortion fraternity. Now, with wider exposure, the abortionists need legal cover lest there be a “chilling effect” on abortion.
If you’re an abortionist, and you legally kill 1300 babies but one baby slips out intact and you snuff that one out and do five years in a minimum-security prison, will the payments for all 1301 “procedures” compensate you for doing the five years?
I recommend viewing “Gosnell, The Trial of America’s Biggest Serial Killer.” As I recall, there was a baby who was born by induced labor while Gosnell was at home resting from a hard-day’s work. Gosnell gave instructions by phone to his staff, and he made his way to the clinic. The baby was in a toilet splashing about, fighting for his life. His life ended with Gosnell snipping the baby’s spinal cord at the neck on a nearby table.
In the trial, an expert witness appearing for Gosnell, another abortionist, was asked what the Virginia Governor was asked: “What do you do if the baby is born alive?” Answer: (paraphrasing) “Make the baby as comfortable as possible until it dies.” Hence the need for enabling legislation.
I think this is the gap that abortionists and their allies are trying desperately to close right now.
Look at the picture accompanying the story. If you didn’t read English, would you guess the sign says “Jamba Juice”, or “Aldi’s”… or “Human Abattoir”?
Im confident that once this is brought up in one of the 3 presidential debates in 2020 it will no longer be an issue. The Left knows they are losing this battle and are becoming increasingly desperate and nuts.
And as I like to tell my more hardline pro-life friends, Roe V Wade was the 2nd worst decision SCOTUS ever made (Plessy V Ferguson, setting back integration in this country half a century was the worst) and it took 55-60 years to overturn Plessy, it will take 50-60 years to overturn Roe at the SCOTUS level. So by my estimate we are 7-10 years (maybe and hopefully sooner) that will take away the FEDERAL protection abortion gets, it will go back to being a states rights issue, like it always should have been. Patience friends, patience.
As Tony notes, I think the reason the Democrats fought this one so hard was they know, or at least suspect, that it’s actually quite common for a baby to survive a surgical abortion and then be either left to die or be killed. We are not just talking about clipping the wings of Warren Hern or Kermit Gosnell here, but really the whole movement.
On a broader note, abortion as an industry is incredibly fragile, and that’s why the Democrats fight things like this tooth and nail. They need those federal and state subsidies, they need medicaid to pay for abortion, they need to be exempt from reasonable surgical safety guidelines, and they need to be allowed to let babies die of exposure, or else the whole edifice collapses.