What does the United States have in common with Canada, China, Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam?
All these nations allow abortion after 20 weeks.
The US Senate last week failed to bring us up to the level of most European nations, countries that outlaw abortion for babies who’ve reached the halfway point of pregnancy–many even sooner at 12 weeks.
It’s one of many ironies that when doctors perform surgery on an unborn child–a child they intend to help live–they routinely administer anesthesia to the child.
But when children of the same gestational age are aborted, they receive no painkilling medication. These children die as their nerve endings fully convey the killing process through the child.
It is the doublethink of George Orwell’s 1984—the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts in one’s mind and not consider them inconsistent.
The child we can heal deserves help to deal with the pain of a surgical process. This child is real and human to us.
The child we intend to kill is not real to us. His pain is not real–to us–because if we admitted that he feels real pain, we would have to realize our moral deficiency.
Or the child is less than human because of a defect–one that deems him unworthy of life in our eyes. We have made ourselves the arbiters of who is human and who is not.
In 2016, Utah passed a law requiring those aborting older unborn children to provide anesthesia, but at least one report says the law is unenforced.
The Utah legislature understands logical inconsistency, but the enforcement arms of government cannot deal with the reality of acknowledging pain in condemned innocents.
God bless our legislators who represent their citizens–born and unborn–by voting to end such atrocity.
May God bestow truth within the hearts of those who deny the reality of the unborn at all ages–their sacred status as imago Dei.
And may God forgive us for being among the few nations in the world inflicting agony on little ones. The light is dimmer today for our city on the hill.
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Dear Nancy
What I like about your blog is your courage to bring up topics that few Christian bloggers dare to blog about.
This topic is also relevant in Greenland where I am.
Greenland has a huge problem with abortions.
There are the same amount of abortions as born babies here.
I once heard a doctor here in Greenland say that he had performed over 600 abortions.
Our politicians have an immense responsibility to produce laws that consider everything, right?
God bless!
Edna Davidsen
Thank you, Edna. Didn’t know that about Greenland. God bless you and your nation–and America–with just laws.
This is a courageous and well-argued post! I like the embedded link on fetal pain.
Canada’s abortion law was struck down in 1988, and we are still without a law even though the Supreme Court said Parliament could write a new one.
minor suggestion–I would use the term “unborn baby” or “unborn child” even though child is technically correct.
Thank you, Christopher. Wow! No law since 1988. That sounds like the Wild West way of doing things–or not doing them. Amazing! God bless you and your nation too!
Excellent post and disturbing at the same time. Those who choose to willfully ignore the facts in this atrocity remind me of this verse from Isaiah 5:20: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Woe to the American Senators.
And the woe is real. We need to see it as the reality that it is. We need to pray for those in power. Thanks and God bless!