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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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You are correct, of course, but I think we are trending that way nonetheless.
Here in Washington, the three urban counties of King, Piece and Snohomish would likely seek to split with the rest of the state, assuming that the only things worth keeping are all found in Seattle, Tacoma, Renton and Everett. The rest of the state is just a bunch of ignorant deplorables, anyway. (Probably Olympia and Bellingham would try to tag along with Seattle, since they are lefty college towns…)
This is VA Gov. Northam’s Twitter banner. The number of happy children around him pales in comparison to the numbers of children that are and will soon be killed in Virginia if this evil law passes. Northam actively campaigned for governor in numerous abortion clinics. This man was a pediatrician. His bio on Wikipedia shows no religious affiliation. When despots, like Mao, Hussein, Castro, et. al., want to show how messianic they are, they are often depicted surrounded by children.
How about that the point is bat-guano crazy? Do we need to address every lunacy of the Left as if it were serious?
But since you asked, here’s my answer: there is no limiting principle. If you can kill infants arbitrarily, then why not anyone? “I don’t like that guy’s face. Let’s do an after-birth abortion on him, especially since he’s a white male and therefore has White Privilege.” Make up your own wacky reasons for murder. It can be a game on Ricochet: invent reasons to after-birth abort your fellow human, who’s not an actual person after all according to the Aussie moral sages at Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University and University of Melbourne.
https://twitter.com/TaylorRMarshall/status/1091051530252365826
Meanwhile in Rhode Island (emphasis mine):
It’s not about the kid with a little trouble breathing. It’s about the kid born with Down’s syndrome that wasn’t detected in advance. Or other survivable but unpleasant birth defects.
All those newborns that need expensive surgery? Once we have single payer, they’ll be too costly to the system.
dr,
Human Rights..we ain’t got no Human Rights..we don’t need no stinken Human Rights!
Regards,
Jim
The thing that really annoys me is that I’ve committed a mortal sin when I don’t go to mass on Sunday. In a state of mortal sin means I don’t get communion.
All of these “Catholic” politicians openly flout the teachings of the church and work against Catholic principles, and that’s cool. No problem.
It really makes me angry.
“partner”.
Iceland has found a Final Solution for Down’s Syndrome.
I don’t know if the woman was his girlfriend or wife, which is why I used that term, but the quotes would be super appropriate. You’re right to think of the edit, @miffedwhitemale.
I’ve got a co-worker who had his wife abort their son. I think it has a lot to do with why he got married on the other side of the street for his second go round.
He’ll also be the first to agree that it’s a hell of a lot easier to tell your Republican friends that you’re a happily married gay man who loves the second amendment than your gay friends.
What makes it even more pathetic is that Downs isn’t even inheiritable, so they can’t even claim that after having aborted all the “defectives” that the defect has been eliminated, the way that could be done, say, with a screen for Huntington’s or Parkinson’s or Tay Sacs or other diseases caused by genetic defects.
Let’s tag him exactly that.
President Trump needs to have a screening of Gosnell, inviting relevant cabinet officers and Congressional leaders.
Just wondering: Does depraved indifference to human life constitute a grounds for recalling a governor?
The ones who need to see it won’t attend.
Unfortunately, that’s true.
That’s what struck me in Northam’s walk back-the statement that third (and fourth!) trimester abortions only happen in cases of “abnormalities.” Sorry, governor, the bill doesn’t say any thing about abnormalities, and if it isn’t written down, it isn’t the law. What if the “abnormality” is that the kid is the wrong gender? Or has the wrong color hair?
This is battle space preparation for the Democrats to make killing “undesirables” or “abnormals” an easier lift. Once you can declare one set of human beings unfit to live, it is easier to declare others abnormal, and therefore unfit to live. What they really want to do is kill or enslave any one who disagrees with them. Abortion is already legal, infanticide is the next step, then old people, mentally ill people, disabled people (all of whom probably cause “mental distress” to some one). Eventually the “abnormal” will include any one who refuses to bow their social justice requirements, and then the killing will really begin, if they can disarm the people.
And this is Governor Northam’s High School Yearbook ….
#RememberJudgeKavanaugh
Since WaPo and HuffPo are now reporting on his yearbook, I’m sure we can expect Democrat leaders and the media—I know I’m repeating myself—to promptly disavow Northam. Right? Right, guys?
Governor Northam is a physician, a pediatric neurologist. Being a doctor is no bar to being a bad person-there are any number of doctors who think abortion and euthanasia are just fine, viz. Ezekiel Emanuel and Joseph Mengele.
They aren’t bozos, they are communists, or maybe fascists, certainly statists, i.e., Democrats. There’s a reason that medical conditions weren’t in the bill, and it isn’t that these people are stupid. They’re evil, not stupid.
As with so many other issues , we started out arguing about personhood at conception and now the Overton window has been moved to where we’re arguing about personhood during LABOR! The left is always advancing and we are always retreating.
Also I find it revolting the way Democrats always surround themselves with black people as props for pandering purposes and when did Virginia become 80% black?
There are no people of good conscience voting Democrat. They are evil, every last one of them. It’s not like they don’t know what their party represents-they are shouting their abortions from the rooftops, they are openly calling for destroying the United States as founded, and for socialism.
I heard it was his med school yearbook. Also, I can’t believe that story turned out to be real, after all.
The question is, which one was he?
I do believe that a large portion of their voter base is simply brainwashed by years of messaging from the media, and I do hesitate to call them evil, rather they promote evil without really thinking about it. Mind control plus social inertia plus laziness in critical thinking (or none at all). Many are waking up, but not enough yet.
Yeah, I have some beloved family in this position. Not evil, just under the sway of the culture (of death). I worry that the reinforcement of moral vanity by the culture will be too much to overcome. There’s a confidence in one’s righteousness (AOC is the poster child) that’s a yuuuuge temptation on the Left (and sometimes on the Right). It’s a very comfortable mental state.
You are correct, both of you, and I am in the same boat with some of my relatives. I take back my blanket condemnation.
Still, it is infuriating that when you try and talk to them, they say things like “Republicans are racist and hate women,” and won’t listen.
The people of Virginia get what they vote for, as does the electorate of every state. Let them rise up at the polls in the next election or be damned, in the precise sense of the word.