My Thoughts on the New York Abortion Bill

This Reaper isn't Pink for the Reason you Think

It's spawned from the very gates of Hell-- but not just for the reason you think. This bill is insanely dangerous and traumatic to women.

I'm going to focus primarily on one fact here-- abortion is now legal in the state of New York through all nine months of pregnancy.

Now, morally, an abortion at nine months is pretty similar to one in the first trimester. There's a baby, you kill the baby, you remove it from the mother (not gonna debate if it's actually a baby or not, I'll leave that for another post).

Physically? Not so much. (From here on, I'm going to get a bit graphic. If you've got a weak stomach or you've been unfortunate enough to have undergone one of these hellish procedures, you may want to stop here).

The state of New York has just legalized a procedure in which an infant at nine months gestation is given a lethal injection to the heart -or- cut apart with a knife then delivered either whole or piece by piece from the mother, who then gets her uterus scraped out to avoid tissue being left behind. For the heart injection one, there's testimony (relevant part starts at 39:49) from mothers feeling their babies frantically move as the needle is inserted. Twenty or so years ago, they would fill the womb with a caustic saline solution and chemically burn the babies to death, then deliver them (Gianna Jessen, a well known pro-life speaker, survived this procedure as a baby). I'm not sure if that method is still in use or not. In all cases, the woman goes through an invasive, potentially very complicated procedure.

We're talking about a substantial ordeal here. The mother goes through all of the pain of childbirth and then some. Look up eyewitness accounts from former abortion workers and sidewalk counselors outside of late-term abortion facilities. Stories of women being walked around the parking lot outside the clinic to induce labor. Stories of women delivering dead babies into toilets, seeing and experiencing it all.  Stories of babies being born alive, moving, even crying, and being left to die (babies born alive during an attempted abortion have no rights or recourse to medical treatment under the new New York law as it repealed section 4164, which had previously assured them care). Stories of delivering dead babies alone in a hotel room. Stories of hemorrhage, perforated uteruses, and infections. Stories of unbelievable physical pain. Women have died from complications from these procedures, even when under an experienced doctor's care.

And guess what? The new bill doesn't require there to be a doctor to have these procedures performed anymore. It says 'under the scope of their care' referring to alternative medical professionals, but what does that mean? Who decides what professionals have late term abortions under their 'scope'? It seems ripe for abuse. 

So yeah. I'm pissed. This is dangerous, gruesome, nasty stuff here. And if you care at all about women's health, you should be pretty pissed too.

If you want a primary source for the sort of stories I allude to here, this is a good (but difficult) read.