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We’ve Moved on From Third Trimester Abortion to Straight Up Infanticide
In the wake of the ghoulish New York abortion law, there’s fresh horrors out of Virginia in the last twenty-four hours. The first, an actual bill:
In Virginia, Democratic delegate Kathy Tran is sponsoring a bill that would legalize abortion up until birth. When directly asked whether a woman at 40 weeks could receive an abortion during in labor, Tran says yes. Watch the exchange: https://t.co/0TwZ1ECkWl
— Alexandra DeSanctis (@xan_desanctis) January 29, 2019
What is more ghoulish than this, a baby killed just before it enters the world via birth canal? Virginia Governor Ralph Northam somehow manages to pull off an even more disturbing statement:
VA gov on abortion this morning:
“If a mother is in labor…the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians & mother" pic.twitter.com/cc15pVLjIQ
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 30, 2019
At least they’re no longer pretending this is about women’s health anymore. This is a culture of death. Notice how many in the mainstream take note that a Governor of a major state advocating for legalized infanticide.
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Well, he is a member of the actual, historical, party of the Klan. Robert Byrd was praised by their luminaries at his funeral.
Just to clarify if it wasn’t obvious enough. I was referring to the women in the first video at the hearing not the radio interview with Gov. Northam.
The discussion reminds me of what Abraham Lincoln observed:
“The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.”
This is because they make the same blanket statements about people on the right being evil as have been made in this conversation about the left.
From whatever side that comes, this makes it so much simpler to live. One doesn’t have to engage at all with anyone else who is “evil,” right? In fact we should avoid evil! We must avoid leftists!
While I am as disgusted as anyone else about third trimester abortions–and am pretty militant about first trimester abortions being morally disordered as well–we must all resist the temptation to lump “the left” into a blob “evil” group.
One need only learn from them and see the results of such lumping: proposals for putting boys in wood chippers simply because they wore MAGA hats.
I think I’ve finally found a good use for the verb “resist.” ;)
Indeed. These actual “white nationalist haters” put Grand Kleagle Byrd’s name on lots of buildings and highways.
Additionally, he was praised and eulogized (by Hillary, no less) by all of the democrats at his passing as the “conscience of the Senate”. Laughable. The same man who filibustered the civil rights act.
Hypocrisy … thy name is democrat!
There is a little public golf course where I go most of the time for my golf. During the 2016 campaign I played with a union pipefitter one day. He was a good guy–in his early 60’s and as we played the talk meandered into politics. I asked him who he was voting for, Clinton or Trump. He kind of hemmed and hawed and finally said, look, I’ve voted Democrat all my life so I’ll probably vote for Clinton. I asked him if he actually liked her, how many jobs had she ever created for his fellow union pals? I pointed out that Trump has created 10’s of thousands of good paying union jobs his whole life. The pipefitter sheepishly shook his head in agreement and said he understood and didn’t really think much of Clinton, but habits were habits. A few months later, after the election, I saw him in the clubhouse. Sooo??? I asked. Who’d ya vote for? He looked down at the ground, smiled, and said Clinton. “Well, maybe next time you will break that bad habit” I said as I walked away.
The policies, platforms and behaviour of the democrat party is evil.
People intentionally embrace these policies. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, evil is as evil does.
A well-meaning person can “resist” participating in evil.
Oh, I think we can call leftism evil. It is an ideology founded on coercion and lies. On self-pity and self-righteousness. Its impulses are totalitarian (you like your doctor? Too bad.) It’s hard to imagine anything more demonic.
Leftists tend to be a mixed bag like the rest of us. What people find irresistible about leftism is a) the moral vanity (good people welcome all immigrants — especially poor brown ones!), or b) the cultural pressure to conform, or c) Both a) and b).
Lois, I agree with you about the term “evil”. I think it should reserved for mass murderers and the like. So, while I would not designate the Governor of Virginia as evil, I think the sanctioning of what amounts to infanticide is pretty disgusting, and I would like it if Virginians can find a way to recall him, because of that reason. Not the Klan picture, as disgusting as that is. We have to make it clear that we as a society will not stand for the killing of babies who just been born.
Spoiled milk is “pretty disgusting”. Infanticide and the endorsement thereof are evil and must be utterly defied.
Unfortunately, his successor would be even more radical. There is no good outcome here for Rs. Sometimes, the only winning move is not to play.
The good outcome is to increase their slim majorities in this year’s legislative elections so as to prevent any of his policies from seeing the light of day. Then, running a good candidate for governor in 2021, making sure to constantly remind voters who they elected the last time.
That is reasonable.
Yes, I agree. This sounds reasonable. First of all, any ideology that seeks to control others, I believe, is evil. The reason I insist on differentiating between the act and the person is because to focus on the individual would seem to mean that we cannot make distinctions. Slavery was evil; but not all slaveholders were evil. The reason is because we didn’t know them. Most people didn’t know better in those days. If you grow up a certain way, and there is no one around to tell you that this is wrong, you can’t see it as wrong. Perhaps there were those who didn’t beat their slaves but treated some like family members.
It seems to me that truly evil people keep doing things that no civilized person would tolerate. People like Mao, Hitler, Stalin, and others kept killing people. They were evil. If we call people who do lesser things evil, it seems to me, we diminish what those monsters did.