To: My Various Pro-“Choice” Friends
From: Mitch Berg, Disgusted Peasant
Re: WTF<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when we had our discussions over the years about abortion, I responded to your palaver about “women owning their bodies” with an incisive “Yeah, but let’s give some moral weight to the fact that the fetus is intended to become<\/em> a human. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To which you responded “Look, nobody wants<\/em> an abortion” – which seemed fair enough – and the ever-threadbare “We want abortion to be safe, legal and rare<\/em>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To which I nodded my head, not really believing you believed it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Monday, my misgivings got strapped to the top of a rocket and shot straight into the Capitol: the Senate failed on a procedural vote to pass a law that would have protected babies <\/a>that were already born alive<\/a><\/em>. Not inviable; not inches from emerging from the birth canal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alive. Human, even according to the infanticide industry’s orthodoxy of, it seems, mere weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One after another, Democratic senators took to the floor to smear the bill as an attack on women\u2019s health care, a baseless criticism that they failed to substantiate. In the process, they revealed their belief that allowing unwanted infants to perish after birth constitutes a form of women\u2019s health care. I gotta say it – after the bloodbath of the midterms, I predicted the Democrats, in MInnesota and DC, would overreach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As bad as the party of Tide Pod Eviita has been on soooo many issues, this one may be the nauseating acme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That is all, baby-killers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To: My Various Pro-“Choice” FriendsFrom: Mitch Berg, Disgusted PeasantRe: WTF So when we had our discussions over the years about abortion, I responded to your palaver about “women owning their bodies” with an incisive “Yeah, but let’s give some moral weight to the fact that the fetus is intended to become a human. To which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[408,249],"class_list":["post-70151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","tag-abortion","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151","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=70151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70152,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70151\/revisions\/70152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) reintroduced his Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in direct response to Virginia governor Ralph Northam\u2019s endorsement of permitting mothers and doctors to let infants die of neglect. \u201cThe infant would be delivered,\u201d Northam said, explaining a hypothetical case in which a woman in labor wanted an abortion. \u201cThe infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that\u2019s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.\u201d
This \u201cdiscussion\u201d is what Democrats voted on Monday to preserve \u2014 a discussion not about health-care options for women but about whether or not to extend health care of any kind to newborn infants. With their votes and their speeches, 44 U.S. senators embraced Ralph Northam\u2019s position, which, despite attempting to clarify, he has never retracted.
\u201cI want to ask each and every one of my colleagues whether or not we\u2019re okay with infanticide,\u201d Sasse said at the start of floor debate on Monday. \u201cThis language is blunt. I recognize that. It is too blunt for many people in this body. But frankly, that is what we\u2019re talking about here today. Infanticide is what [the bill] is actually about.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n