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Are there no limits to human brokenness?

Feb 22, 2019

By Dave Andrusko

Burlington Bishop Christopher Coyne

On February 15, addressing Vermont’s proposed abortion-until-birth law (since easily passed in the House of Representatives), Bishop Christopher Coyne of Burlington asked this question: “Do we really want to allow this? Do we really want to test the limits of where human brokenness can take us? Please God, no.”

By a vote of 106-36, the Democratic-controlled House said, in effect, we’ll take our chances. Much better the right to break an unborn baby to smithereens than break the unholy alliance between Planned Parenthood and the Democratic Party. After all, how many dollars do unborn babies pour into the coffers of state and national Democratic office holders?

“Planned Parenthood says trust us, and everybody loves Planned Parenthood here,” Mary Hahn Beerworth, executive director of Vermont Right to Life, told the Washington Times. “They’ve dominated the state for decades.”

Beerworth added, “But they’re not thinking, or they don’t care, that somebody could just move here tomorrow and undercut Planned Parenthood for price and run a Gosnell-like clinic.”

Not so, Eileen Sullivan, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, told the Washington Times. She said Gosnell “ran a criminal enterprise, not a health care facility.”

“His case makes clear that we must enforce the laws already in existence that protect access to safe and legal abortion,” Sullivan said.

Of course, to “protect access to safe and legal abortion” requires not only that the state have no limitations on abortion–that already is the case in Vermont, as Beerworth told NRL News Today—but also to explicitly reject even the most marginal limitation on the right to kill your unborn baby.

And that includes even rejecting a state ban on partial-birth abortion. You read that right. A federal ban passed constitutional muster with the Supreme Court, which always meant that the Planned Parenthood types would try to make sure these incredibly vicious abortions of nearly-delivered babies could be protected under state law.

Vermont’s mind-numbingly violent assault on clearly viable unborn babies is of piece with what we saw enacted in New York but (so far) thwarted in places like the Commonwealth of Virginia. Nothing but nothing can quench their lust for death on demand throughout all “40 weeks” of pregnancy, to quote the sponsor of Virginia’s abortion on demand “Repeal bill.”

Does it surprise anyone that the Virginia governor quickly extended the logic to say that beyond keeping an abortion survivor “comfortable,” it ought to be entirely up to the mother and the abortionist whether anything is done?

Of course not.

And you can be sure if Planned Parenthood has its way that will be the standard of non-care for all abortion survivors everywhere.

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