Monday, September 15, 2008

Baby, Fetus, Blob, or Parasite

Abortion by hysterectomy: the woman was probably into the third trimester and the child she was carrying weighed over two pounds. Failing to kill the baby prior to delivery the doctors went ahead with delivery and put the baby in a bucket. The baby tried to breathe and tried to cry and the doctors and nurses pretended it was not there. This is a group of people who promised to "do no harm."
 
Those who support abortion rights describe the child in the womb as a parasite that the woman has a right to expel from her body. The same argument justifies infanticide since it applies to an infant outside the womb: newborns require even more attention and care and in that sense are even more parasitic.
 
We can only imagine a country's future whose citizens refer to a growing child in a mother's womb as a parasite. Whether it is war or abortion, the reality of violent acts is hidden through linguistic contrivances meant to devalue human lives found to be inconvenient.  Dead citizens are "collateral damage" and ignored or rationalized away. Native Americans and Blacks were considered less than human.
 
An expectant mother is asked how their baby is doing. They do not ask how her fetus is doing or her blob of tissue or her parasite.
 
Think about it…


Regards,
John Jenkins
865-803-8179 cell
Gatlinburg, TN
Email: jrjenki@yahoo.com 

Hyperbole is the Best Thing Ever.

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