Today's Reality of Sociopolitical Abortion Right's Culture of Death Part 1 of 2

There’re additional terms for “Partial Term” and “Late Term” abortion: infanticide, maternal filicide and murder. And it is morally repugnant, indefensible and wicked. Contrary to Andrew Cuomo’s declaration that late term abortion is “a historic victory for…our progressive values…” The opposite is true. This shameless embrace of a culture of death is astonishing to every American who cherishes life. Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s stated position was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” It was this widespread rejection of late-term abortion that led a bipartisan majority in Congress to pass the partial-birth-abortion ban in 2003. Pitilessly, how far left the Democratic party’s pendulum has swung. 

To support, let alone cheer, late-term abortions not only marks a disturbing step backward by self-styled “progressives”, it also encroaches upon every demand of human decency. As modern science has moved the point of viability ever earlier in pregnancy, most Americans have agreed that a child who can survive outside the womb deserves a chance at life. Although the beginning of humanhood may be controversial, why cannot the progressive left and the sociopolitical abortion rights movement accept the scientific answer regarding the beginning of human personhood? The widely accepted scientific answer: Human life begins at the time of conception. This being so, anyone with an open mind must conclude that human life is present throughout the entire sequence from conception to adulthood and that any point throughout this time constitutes a termination of human life. One can only assume those sociopolitical abortion proponents are selectively blind to the truth or ignore the pain and suffering an aborted fetus, terminated baby or abandoned newborn. Or, simply don’t give a damn. 

To say I find the current political debate over abortion deeply troubling, including the decision by some Democrats to block a bill, from passing unanimously, called the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is an understatement. The mentioned act would require that babies born alive after a botched abortion procedure be treated no differently by doctors than any other newborn.  Imagine, we are debating whether it is ethical to strangle a child, for the mother and the physician or clinician to have a conversation while keeping the newborn comfortable, all the while considering if they want to destroy it or no. Really, we’re having a bioethical debate about what amounts to infanticide? In America, are not all of us created equal? If that equality means anything, surely it means that infanticide is wrong. Forthrightly, this shouldn’t be hard. Then again, today’s Democrats seem to be all right with taking the life of a breathing, heart beating and pain feeling human life. Are you?