Pro-Life Law Means a Short, Agonizing Life.
Sorry to ruin your morning, but there's a really appalling article about the consequences of mandating that Life At All Costs Is Good coming out of Nebraska this morning.
Nebraska passed a "fetal pain" law, meaning that no abortions could be done past the time activists determine that the fetus could feel pain. There was an exception for health of the mother... but not for life of the actual fetus.
So the inevitable has ineved a mere two months after the passing of the law:
Woman is pregnant with much wanted child.
Pregnancy goes horribly wrong. Woman loses most of amniotic fluid. Doctor tells mother that fetus absolutely cannot survive outside womb.
Woman attempts to get abortion to spare herself the agony of birthing dying child and spare baby the agony of consciously dying.
Nebraska law says, "No." *HER* life isn't in danger. The fetus still has a heartbeat.
So, she has to wait to miscarry.
FOR TEN DAYS
And when she does? Wanted, loved, desired, UNVIABLE baby smothers to death in mother's arms, trying to breathe without lungs. For fifteen minutes
I'd like to think that anyone with a functioning heart would be heartbroken. With a functioning conscience would be revolted, saddened.
The response to the "right to lifers" who pushed the law?
Speaker to Neb Legislature Mike Flood: “Even in these situations where a baby has a terminal condition, there is still a life,” Flood said. “That life is worth protecting.”
Exec Director of Nebraska Right to Life: “Isn’t it more humane for the baby to die in a loving manner with comfort, care and in the arms of her parents than by the intentional painful death through abortion?”
That isn't a quote from Planned Parenthood or some pro-choice group putting words in people's mouths. It's direct from the "women deserve better than abortion" source: A nonviable life must still be lived, however short and painful. Smothering to death slowly over the course of a quarter hour is "to die in a loving manner with comfort." It's humane.
Humane is the last word I'd use.
And I'd say this is an aberration, but I once had an argument with someone who told me how "wonderful" it was that women I know who've told me they would rather have been aborted themselves than have the childhoods they'd had "were alive to say it." So this isn't the first time I've run into the notion that no matter how agonizing, no matter how doomed, no matter what people want for themselves, someone else thinks that as long as the heart is beating, things are just peachy.
Nebraska passed a "fetal pain" law, meaning that no abortions could be done past the time activists determine that the fetus could feel pain. There was an exception for health of the mother... but not for life of the actual fetus.
So the inevitable has ineved a mere two months after the passing of the law:
Woman is pregnant with much wanted child.
Pregnancy goes horribly wrong. Woman loses most of amniotic fluid. Doctor tells mother that fetus absolutely cannot survive outside womb.
Woman attempts to get abortion to spare herself the agony of birthing dying child and spare baby the agony of consciously dying.
Nebraska law says, "No." *HER* life isn't in danger. The fetus still has a heartbeat.
So, she has to wait to miscarry.
FOR TEN DAYS
And when she does? Wanted, loved, desired, UNVIABLE baby smothers to death in mother's arms, trying to breathe without lungs. For fifteen minutes
I'd like to think that anyone with a functioning heart would be heartbroken. With a functioning conscience would be revolted, saddened.
The response to the "right to lifers" who pushed the law?
Speaker to Neb Legislature Mike Flood: “Even in these situations where a baby has a terminal condition, there is still a life,” Flood said. “That life is worth protecting.”
Exec Director of Nebraska Right to Life: “Isn’t it more humane for the baby to die in a loving manner with comfort, care and in the arms of her parents than by the intentional painful death through abortion?”
That isn't a quote from Planned Parenthood or some pro-choice group putting words in people's mouths. It's direct from the "women deserve better than abortion" source: A nonviable life must still be lived, however short and painful. Smothering to death slowly over the course of a quarter hour is "to die in a loving manner with comfort." It's humane.
Humane is the last word I'd use.
And I'd say this is an aberration, but I once had an argument with someone who told me how "wonderful" it was that women I know who've told me they would rather have been aborted themselves than have the childhoods they'd had "were alive to say it." So this isn't the first time I've run into the notion that no matter how agonizing, no matter how doomed, no matter what people want for themselves, someone else thinks that as long as the heart is beating, things are just peachy.