“Seek Yahweh while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return to Yahweh, and He will have compassion on him. Turn to our Elohim, for He will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55: 6-7
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Legalizing Infanticide is Gaining Momentum Across the United States
I remember when the fact that partial-birth abortions were being performed in the United States legally became public knowledge for the first time. Most people didn’t understand what a partial-birth abortion was. When they finally understood, they reacted the way normal, decent people are supposed to react. They were horrified and demanded that the procedure be outlawed.
What is a Partial-Birth Abortion?
Partial-birth abortions are also known as “dilation and extraction”, D&X, and “intact D&E”.
In a normal childbirth, the head comes out of the birth canal first. Occasionally, the feet try to come out first. That’s called a breech birth, and it is very dangerous for the child. When that happens, the doctor reaches into the birth canal and repositions the child so the head comes out first.
In a partial birth abortion procedure, the doctor reaches into the birth canal and repositions the child so that the feet come out first. In other words, he makes sure that it will be a breech birth. As quickly as the base of the child’s skull appears, the doctor punches a hole in the child’s skull, inserts a vacuum tube, sucks out the child’s brain, and the child is born dead.
If the entire head is allowed to come out of the birth canal, the child has legal protection. Until the entire head comes out of the birth canal, the child has no legal protection. That was the law until 2003 when the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was passed by Congress and signed by the president. Today, partial-birth abortions are prohibited in the United States unless the life of the mother is at risk.
Discussing Partial-Birth Abortions in My Leadership Class
I learned about the partial-birth abortion procedure for the first time when I read an article about it in the Washington Post. Since it was so grotesque and immoral, I felt an obligation to discuss it in my leadership class at the University of Virginia.
At that time, very few of my students had heard about a partial-birth abortion. When I explained the procedure to them, they were as shocked as I was. Most of them had a hard time believing that partial-birth abortions were legal in the United States. I assured them that the procedure was legal.
The few students in the class who understood what a partial-birth abortion is defended the procedure by repeating what doctors who performed the procedures said. The doctors said that partial-birth abortions are rare. That was their only defense.
During the previous year, only about 2,000 of the roughly 1,000,000 abortions performed in the United States had been partial-birth abortions. Two thousand is a small number compared to 1,000,000, but it was 2,000 murders. Medical professionals had murdered about 2,000 innocent children the previous year with the consent of their mothers.
That’s how I saw it. That’s how most of my students saw it, too.
I will never forget this. One black girl in the class insisted that partial-birth abortions were acceptable, because the procedure was so rare. I asked her if she was aware that sometimes slave owners in the Old South lynched slaves. She said, “Yes.”
Next, I asked her if she knew how much slaves cost back then. She said, “No.”
I explained that slaves could cost $1,000 or more back then. I said, “That’s a lot of money, don’t you think?”
She nodded her head in agreement.
I walked up to her, looked her in the eye, and said, “How often do you think a slave owner would lynch a $1,000 investment.”
“Not often,” she said.
Then I asked her, “How often is too often?”
She said, “Once.”
Every student in the class agreed with her, and so did I. I said, “It’s not okay lynch slaves, because every life matters. Do you agree?”
Tears welled up in her eyes, and she said, “Yes, I agree.”
In concluded with this statement: “Partial-birth abortions are wrong for the same reason. Every life matters.”
And Now Comes Infanticide
See “Assembly Judiciary Committee to Vote on Infanticide Bill”:
California legislators recently announced the most extreme anti-life bill California has ever seen, essentially legalizing infanticide. This bill removes all civil and criminal penalties for killing babies weeks or months after birth and is moving quickly. The Assembly Judiciary Committee has already scheduled the first hearing for next week.
A.B. 2223 is a bill promoted by the “Future of Abortion Council,” a coalition of 40 pro-abortion organizations whose goal is “to Protect, Strengthen, and Expand Abortion Services in California.” The Abortion Council is currently advocating for nine different pro-abortion bills, although they have stepped into a new level of evil with AB 2223.
This bill specifically protects a mother from civil and criminal charges for any “actions or omissions” to her pregnancy “including miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion, or perinatal death.” The definition of “perinatal death” varies, although all include the death of a baby from 22 weeks gestation to 7 days post-birth or more.
When we hear about things like this for the first time, most of us have a tendency to dismiss it completely, because it sounds so ridiculous. We think, That could never happen here, but we are wrong. It can happen here, and it will happen here if we don’t stop it from happening. And it’s not limited to California. Watch the video below showing Virginia Governor Ralph Northam explaining his position on infanticide:
Please notice how casual the governor was while he talked about deciding the fate of a helpless, innocent child that was lying on a table right in front of him. He was talking about committing murder, and it didn’t bother him at all. It was as though he was considering something like cutting his fingernails.
There was a time not too many years ago when most of us thought that partial-birth abortions couldn’t happen here. But we learned that they were happening here, and we were outraged. Now we are witnessing efforts to legalize infanticide. In fact, legalizing infanticide is gaining momentum across the country right now. Infanticide can become legal, and it will become legal, if we just sit back and watch.
Personally, I have a hard time distinguishing between Nazis who murdered innocent men, women, and children because they were Jewish and “liberal progressives” in the United States who think murdering innocent children is acceptable.
Who will they want to murder next? Old people who have outlived their usefulness? Black people? Oriental people? Hispanic people?
Even if murder is legal, it’s still murder. I thought that’s what the Nazis taught us.
We know what Yahweh thinks about murder. He said, “You shall not murder.” (Exodus 20: 13) It’s in the Ten Commandments.
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“I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me — just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father — and I lay down My life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to My voice, and there shall be one flock and one Shepherd. The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.”
John 10: 14-18
