Killing is killing in -utero or ex -utero. Killing is against natural law. Abortion ends life. Abortion destroys human life at every stage. 50 million unborn aborted Americans cry out to the Father for justice and mercy. Domestic terrorism ? Began with Roe v. Wade, which launched legal genocide. 50 million unborn aborted Americans in 36 years ! Americans across the country seem to recognize this. Please join prayer for conversion of hearts and end to the worldwide holocaust of abortion !
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The Case For Legal Late-Term Abortions
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I cannot say that the option of a late-term abortion would have been the right one for my parents. But some of the arguments advanced by pro-life forces disturb me. There is a tendency to romanticize, sentimentalize and idealize life with a cute, forever-young Down-syndrome "angel child." Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her supporters are particularly adept at this. It's an argument I find off-putting, especially when it's espoused by people who have never been through the wringer trying to care for a child whose disability level is on the most severe end of the scale.
At the same time, it is very disturbing that until recently, the majority of Down-syndrome fetuses were aborted without expectant mothers receiving proper information or support. Widely differing degrees of disability exist in Down syndrome, some of which can be determined through ultrasound and diagnostic tests in the first trimester, obviating the need for a late-term abortion.
Pro-life and pro-choice forces have been going around and around on the issue of abortion for decades, without finding common ground. What seems to have been largely ignored by the mainstream media is that there was a meeting of the minds last fall when the Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act, sponsored by Sens. Ted Kennedy and Sam Brownback, was signed into law.
The measure provides that families receiving a prenatal or postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome or other conditions are offered accurate and up-to-date information about the nature of the condition and are also connected with support services. In addition, a registry of parents willing to adopt children with disabilities is now being compiled and maintained. This law is something pro-life and pro-choice forces agreed on.
The late Dr. Tiller was one of three doctors in the nation to admit to performing late-term abortions. I do not feel qualified to judge whether the procedures he engaged in were ethical. The fact that he was quickly acquitted in March of misdemeanor charges speaks in his favor. And certainly the testimonials from former patients are persuasive.
With his murder, there is a very real danger that late-term abortions will end in this country—not after public deliberation, legislative debate and majority vote, but because anti-abortion absolutists on the fringe have intimidated and blacklisted doctors and successfully threatened violence against them. It's possible there won't be any doctors in the country willing to perform late-term abortions even if prenatal tests indicate severe retardation. In other words, domestic terrorism could win. That would be a travesty.
It would mean that parents like my own would no longer have a choice, and would instead to be forced to endure the same harsh realities that were present in the 1950s.
Buie lives in Pittsboro, N.C. You can read his blog about these issues here.
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