A doctor specializing in late term abortions has been arrested in the United States for the murder of at least seven babies. Doctor Kermit Gosnell, is accused of murdering live babies with scissors, after inducing late term abortions.
Now stop and think for a moment. Proponents of abortion have long argued that it’s a woman body, and that she has the right to choose – some even going so far as saying right up until birth. But if children are being born both live and viable after some late term abortions, then does it really matter what a woman chooses? Shouldn’t a living, breathing baby have the right to choose life?
We’re talking about a doctor stabbing a baby to death with scissors because the mothers what – couldn’t be bothered getting one earlier? Or they suddenly decide that it’s too much responsibility?
Thankfully, the doctor involved has been charged with murder and has a whole host of other issues facing him – from untrained staff, to keeping bizarre trophies from his practice. But it was really the practice of late term abortions that lead to the killing of these babies.
No matter what side of the abortion debate people are on, they should be able to agree that unless the mother’s life is threatened, then late term abortions should be outright banned. Many babies could survive if measures were taken. The cut-off for abortions in Canada is 20 weeks. What most people don’t know, is that there is a small, but significant survival rate for babies born prematurely at 20 weeks. The abortions done in this time period are born alive, and are just allowed to die a slow, agonizing death.
At least the United States actually has laws in most states regulating late term abortions. In Canada there are no laws. Technically, a woman could abort a baby right up until the end of her pregnancy. There are many stories of nurses holding, and caring for late-term abortions in Canada, where the babies survive for up to twelve hours. The nurses are forbidden from trying to take extraordinary measures, or even feed the aborted live babies.
Most mature countries can talk about difficult subjects – but in Canada we seem frozen in paralysis when subjects such as abortion or capital punishment come up. The only downside of ignoring the capital punishment debate, is that society has to live with monsters like Paul Bernado. The downside of not talking about the abortion debate, is that babies – living, breathing babies, that no one can argue are just a collection of cells, will die nearly everyday.
Actually, there is no legal cut-off date for abortions in Canada. The Supreme Court struck down the abortion legislation and no new legislation has ever been introduced.
You could legally abort a baby on the day it was due to be born.
However, most doctors won’t perform an abortion after 20 weeks but they’re not legally obligated to do so.
“The cut-off for abortions in Canada is 20 weeks.”
Then,
“In Canada there are no laws. Technically, a woman could abort a baby right up until the end of her pregnancy.”
Doesn’t one kind of contradict the other?
The current cutoff is artificially manufactured by a lack of doctors willing to perform abortions past 20 weeks. Any doctor could still legally perform them after that.