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The Slaughter of Innocents May Continue, But They are Losing the Fight
I wasn’t shocked when I saw this from LifeNews, “For Every 1,000 Babies Born, New York City Kills 544 Babies in Abortions.” Over one-third of pregnancies in New York City ends in the killing of the child. I wasn’t shocked because I knew NYC was the abortion capital of the US as far as a single city goes. And that’s not good enough. The Dems have taken over both Houses of the legislature in NY State now and fully intend to expand abortions if that is physically possible.
On Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton joined forces at a Barnard College rally to promote the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). As Jack Crowe reported for National Review, Cuomo has “no doubt” that conservative justices will enable the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that legalized abortion at the a federal level. If that happens, the RHA will fortify abortion right in New York state law.
But the bill doesn’t just preserve abortion rights early in pregnancy, which is legal in every state — it protects late-term abortion, too. With the passage of this law, abortions will be permitted “within 24 weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or [when] there is an absence of fetal viability, or at any time when necessary to protect a patient’s life or health.” And, according to New York magazine, not only will abortion “move from the criminal code to the health code,” but also “it will be easier for physicians’ assistants and nurse practitioners to perform abortions.”
But it goes even further than that. Breitbart finds that the NY Bill actually redefines a human being as one who is physically out of the mother’s womb. From “New York Law to Make Abortion a ‘Fundamental Right’”:
Critics have noted that the Act’s language allowing abortion at any time a patient’s health needs to be protected is purposefully vague so as to permit the broadest interpretation.
The Act also redefines “person” as “a human being who has been born and is alive,” eliminating the possibility of recognizing the personhood of an unborn child. During her presidential campaign in 2016, Hillary Clinton stated that “the unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights.”
You see, killing one-third of the unborn (and this doesn’t even count the “day after pill” where the killing is undocumented) is just not enough for the liberals in New York City. They want to go as far as possible. Give them a little more time and they will go after their ultimate goal, condoning infanticide up to two years of age. Bio-ethicist Pete Singer among others, argues that it is not immoral to kill a child up to two years of age because the child is not “self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons”; therefore, “the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.” I don’t know what makes Pete Singer an “ethicist.” Doesn’t sound very ethical to me, but what do I know. I’m not some elitist philosopher.
Somehow the Dems have not gotten the message on this. According to a new Marist poll, 65 percent of Americans now believe SCOTUS should overturn Roe v. Wade. You can read about the recent abortion polls in this Crux article, “New poll: Vast majority of Americans want abortion restrictions.” I guess most Americans are not elitists either.
What’s interesting is that it cites a poll that shows 75% of Democrats are pro-abortion and 70% of Republicans are pro-life. That must mean the people who don’t identify with either party must strongly lean pro-life. (Only 70% of Republicans? What’s wrong with the other 30%?)
I’ll be going to my fourth March for Life march tomorrow down in DC. We in the pro-life movement are winning! We are turning the tide. If you can’t be there, say a prayer to end this satanic practice.
Published in Domestic Policy
Let me just say one more thing. The argument over (I think it was on this thread) a two-year-old not being aware of its own existence and therefore it’s okay to kill him — come on, what he’s really saying is the toddler would never really know, or care, or even know enough to care, if he were killed — so it’s okay. In other words, he doesn’t know enough to miss it. He doesn’t know enough to care that he’s been deprived of his life. This ethical argument has got nothing to do with self-awareness, it’s got to do with an awareness of what happened after the fact. No adult killed swiftly and unexpectedly enough is aware of his own death. It’s not got to do with age, but mentality and hiding the act from the victim.
This “ethical” argument then, really does require and argue in favor of a supernatural after-life. If there is no after-life, then any mass killing if done right, done fast enough and in such a way that they victims don’t know what hit them, then the only way they could miss the life they would have had, the only way they could be aware of being deprived of it, would be from a consciousness after their own death after the fact.
It’s the old Of Mice and Men ending. It’s ethical and moral if they don’t know it’s happening.
There may be a functional reason to assuage the feelings of those killing their own toddlers, but that’s only for the people who know the child is dead, only for the only the survivors.
The awareness argument can be raised against any group so long as they don’t know the genocide is coming and so long as it is swift enough. And the ethical propriety of all genocide is the logical extension of it. And all genocide is excused by it.
I want to ‘like’ this to express agreement but I can’t as I am just so sad that’s even used an argument/justification.
Thanks anyway. But do you think I’m extrapolating too far? Every time I think that morality (or ethics) can’t progress much lower, I seem to be wrong.
I mean, come to think of it, this does apply to Alzheimer’s, Down’s, various degrees of brain damage. Soon perhaps to mental illness and schizophrenia and major depression depending on the way it’s phrased. I really do think that — just like abortion has coarsened and diminished the value of life in people’s eyes — making the value of life about awareness goes way beyond two-year-olds.
And my own view is that nothing happens for no reason.
I don’t think you are at all. I think yours is a perfectly coherent argument that taken to its full conclusion takes us to a place where no one should want us to be. Of course, we’re already at a place I’m very very surprised is accepted by so many.
Just reading your answer gave me a shudder. We’re talking philosophical justifications for genocide. That said, I’ll click like.
I love New York. It’s where my heart is. I save my hate for the people trying to ruin it.
Lived here my whole life. I love the Adirondacks, love the lakes, love the food, and I may be the only one who loves the weather, but Cuomo, Schumer and crew are doing everything in their power to turn this state into California and I’m afraid that with the way our votes are concentrated, there’s no turning back. It’s only getting worse.
Here is Rev. Scotty McClellan (the model for Gary Trudeau’s “Rev” in Doonesbury) on the subject of abortion and life defined (conveniently) by breathing.
GrannyDude, do you mean this essay?
Yes! Whoops. Thanks, Mama T.
Looks like Satan won this battle.
Thanks Scott. As I said in our group, this makes me so darn mad. That’s my state and they’ve turned it into a slaughter house.
This puts things in perspective.
https://twitter.com/CCamosy/status/1088530839552647168