Federal law defines \u201cborn alive\u201d as \u201cthe complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother of that member, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean s<\/p>\n
ection, or induced abortion.\u201d So, yes, \u201ctechnically\u201d that child was alive. California law is also clear: \u201cThe rights to medical treatment of an infant prematurely born alive in the course of an abortion shall be the same as the rights of an infant of similar medical status prematurely born spontaneously.\u201d But that\u2019s not what happened. StemExpress wanted to \u201cprocure a brain,\u201d so the baby had to die in gruesome fashion…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It had a face. It wasn\u2019t completely torn up. It\u2019s nose was very pronounced. It had eyelids. And its mouth was pronounced. And then since the fetus was so intact, she said, \u201cOkay, this is a really good fetus, and it looks like we can procure a lot from it. We\u2019re going to procure a brain. So\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0the moment I hear it\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0that means we\u2019re going to have to cut its head open. We\u2019re going to have to cut its head open.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It gets much worse.<\/p>\n
I’m sorely tempted to print the whole article\u00a0up and leave it on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Say what you will about the Center for Medical Progress’ video stings of Planned Parenthood; they’ve done one thing masterfully; they’ve taken abortion out of abstract realm that many conservatives who focus on other issues, and even many liberals with consciences, had shunted it into, and made the issue very, very sickeningly real. David French […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-infanticide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54875,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54874\/revisions\/54875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}