Probably because their heteronormative cissexism and submission to the White Patriarchy has made them gender-traitors on Womyn’s Health THE WEEKLY STANDARD: The supporters of these bans, they argue that there really isn’t much of a difference between what happened in that Philadelphia case with abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell [killing born-alive infants] 23 weeks into pregnancy and legal late-term abortions at 23 weeks. What is the difference between those two, between
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Wendy Davis (D-Gosnell): Majority of American women are just incapable of understanding Women’s Issues, or something … [Darleen Click]
Babies are controversial … [Darleen Click]
Well, only when you want to save them A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a pro-life ad as “too controversial.” The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the LA Times refused to run an advertisement created by Heroic Media. The ad features a hand holding a 20- to 24-week-old baby with the quote, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours.
Stay classy! — The Kermit Gosnell Party yells “Hail Satan” at singing of “Amazing Grace” [Darleen Click]
Video from Adam Cahn It’s been a very interesting day at the Texas State Capitol. Cahnman’s Musings hasn’t been following the hearing. Instead, we’ve been participating in the surrounding events. LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast from the rotunda where women have been sharing their abortion related testimonies. The pro-abortion crowd has responded with repeated chants of “hail Satan.” It’s taken us all day to get a video recording,
“Bad Optics” in Texas [Darleen Click]
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” ~~ Edmund Burke h/t Glenn Reynolds
The veil drops: Planned Parenthood endorses post-abortion infanticide [Darleen Click]
Even the Florida legislators were gobsmacked Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion. Alisa LaPolt Snow, the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives
The slope has slipped … when infanticide is presented as a “reasoned” argument [Darleen Click]
The irony of a paper entitled After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? running in the Journal of Medical Ethics Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption