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What was almost unimaginable just a few years ago is now an ugly reality

Mar 27, 2020

By Dave Andrusko

The headline above is most of the headline  I gave a post I wrote 13 months ago. The remainder of the headline was “with worse in the offing.”

Unfortunately, this has proven to be prophetic. We now have a Democrat party wholly—as in 100%–in the hip pocket of the most radical fringes of the anti-life movement.  Democrats come perilously close to saying in so many words (as opposed to being supportive in practice) of abortion throughout all 9 months of pregnancy. 

Who would have thought that “abortion safe, legal and rare” would be scoffed at as temporizing. Democrats have planted their flag in territory even I didn’t expect would occur this quickly.

If that weren’t bad enough, Democrats adamantly refuse to allow debate on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act. Sen, Ben Sasse has quite accurately said on many occasions this is not about abortion. It “isn’t a debate about third-trimester, or second-trimester, or first-trimester abortion,” he said. It’s “about making sure that every newborn baby has a fighting chance – whether she’s born in a labor and delivery ward or whether she’s born in an abortion clinic.” No more treatment for a baby who survives an abortion than any other newborn of the same gestational age, but no less, either.

But in a different way, as Sen. Sasse has said, the debate is also “about our shared humanity”: 

In our hearts, each of us knows that every member of our human family ought to be protected, that every baby is born with dignity. For two centuries, Americans have worked relentlessly to extend basic human rights to more and more of our fellow citizens. Senator Bernie Sanders and I, two men who don’t agree much in terms of our voting record, do agree about this–this is a recent Senator Sanders quote–“the mark of a great nation is how it treats its most vulnerable people.” Yes, and amen.  It’s time to protect these newborn and vulnerable babies. 

One other quick thought in this, the last post of the week. We are in the midst of a pandemic. What is the abortion industry’s response? 

Let’s use the unwillingness of states to carve out an exception to the ban on elective surgeries for abortion to insist that the FDA “relax its regulation on mifepristone, at least temporarily,” as the New York Times editorialized this week. “Doing so would allow many women to get a prescription for abortion-inducing drugs from a doctor via telemedicine, at which point the medications could be mailed to the patient.”

I don’t know if this is more inhuman or insane. Either way, it does throw into bold relief the pro-abortion, soft-on-infanticide core of a fanatical  Abortion Industry and its hard-core, willing allies in the Democrat Party.

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