Lullaby

While listening to the Michael Medved Show yesterday:

Caller: Me and my boyfriend decided to give up the baby. It was best for us and best for the baby.

Medved: Do you mean you gave the baby up for adoption?

Caller: No... I had an abortion.

Medved: And that was best for the baby... to be killed?

The young woman was a 22-year-old college student... it just wasn't the right time for a baby, she said.

Oh, she said at the right words... "difficult decision", "considered adoption", but her voice was that of someone changing her major.   

She joined more than one million American women each year who kill a child because ultimately they accept the legal, not moral proposition that it is their right to do so, their right to "choose" to end the life of their baby.

How far does someone have to be removed from their emotional core, their female instinct, their maternal feelings that yes by God, do exist, to murder their own child?

I have a much easier time understanding Jeffrey Dahmer.

I think I understand his motivation, how things seemed to him; I understand the fact that he was a sociopath and therefore devoid of human compassion or empathy for his victims. He was a monster and his very being cried out for his death.

Another inmate made it possible; I can say I would have been fully capable of ending his life, had I the chance.

But what do I do with the morally-challenged Caller?

The pictures? Oh... they're of the beautiful Amillia Taylor, the Miracle Baby who weighed less than 10 ounces (a Diet Pepsi is 12) when she was delivered by Caesarean section at 22 weeks. She is the first baby known to have survived after a gestation of fewer than 23 weeks. "Full-term" births can come as early as 37 to 40 weeks. Amillia stretched just 9 1/2 inches long and now weighs 4 1/2 pounds, the last time I checked.

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At 18 weeks the portion of the brain responsible for functions such as reasoning and memory (the cerebral cortex) has the same number of nerve cells as a full-grown adult.

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At this stage, according to the Supreme Court rulings in "Roe vs. Wade" and "Planned Parenthood vs. Casey," a pregnant woman can abort at will... just like The Caller did because "it was best for the baby."

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I think Amillia, not the caller, is the best judge of what's best for "the baby"... she fought to overcome great odds to join us, her struggle valiant proof of her will and desire to live.

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At 24 weeks,,, just two weeks older than Amillia... the survival rate is 80%. At this stage, according to the Supreme Court's rulings in "Roe" a pregnant woman can abort to preserve her health.

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One example from Roe vs. Wade of what may be considered harmful to a mother's health is the "stigma of unwed motherhood."

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Since Roe v Wade released the malignant Holocaust of abortion on demand, 48,589,993 babies have been murdered.

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And just in the time it took to type the above, scores more have been aborted. In 2003, there were 1,287,000 abortions... down significantly from the 1.6 million in 1990. But just how much killing can a society tolerate?

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The leftists who do most of the killing, and support the killing, and profit from the killing profess they cannot tolerate 12 casualties in the War of Terror.

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These are the times that I just want to take my Harley into the mountains and fly fish for the next five years, just me and the dogs. It would not be my intention to return.

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I mean, I can take the killing for a cause, I'm more than willing to lay down my life for certain of them--my family anmd friends, my Marines, my country

... but I have no stomach for mothers murdering their babies; I don't want to think that such women exist.

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So... Goodnight, Amillia, God bless, don't let the bedbugs bite.

Comments

[2012 nfl jerseys]

Without that right, what good are any others?

[red bottom]

Good stuff as per usual, thanks. I do hope this kind of thing gets more exposure.

[radii supras]

I'd actually love to review these boxes on my shopping/lifestyle blog. i wonder if they'd send me a sample box to talk about?

[Ninja R]

Sometimes I think animals got it right. Sure, sometimes, they eat their young, but on the large part, mothers are fiercely protective of their young.

Not so with humans.

We crave comfort and convenience so much that even life itself can't stand in the way.

[Bruce]

Abortion, more than any other thing, has devalued...life itself.

On a lighter note...was there something in particular that you didn't want me to ask,
or do you live in hope that somebody will.

I jest of course.....cheers

[Grimmy]

The modern abortion movement is predicated upon the same arguement that the defenders of slavery used.

Babies aren't legitimate humans so can be aborted.

Blacks aren't legitimate humans so can be owned.

Both issues also have echos in the nazi eugenics programs.

Scratch any pro abortionist deeply enough and you'll get the arguement about 3rd world mothers with too many kids.

[Bruce]

I am an athiest, and a 98 % pro-lifer.

Largely pro-life due to my belief that life for "me" began at conception,
that was the start of my existance,
that was my own personal "big bang" (no pun intended).
Three weeks after conception my heart started to beat.
First brain waves were recorded at six weeks after conception.
Seen sucking my thumb at seven weeks after conception.

You see, although moments after conception I was no more than a clump of cells,
that clump of cells was me,
I might have had a lot of growing to do but that clump of cells was me just the same.
I am glad I was left unhindered, to develope further,
safe inside my mothers womb until I was born.

Shouldn't they all be so lucky ?

They are our equil, no more, no less.

[Bruce]

Marcus Richardson - 19 weeks, 6 days - 780 gm - Jan. '72 - (University Hosp., Cincinnati)

Melissa Cameron - 20 weeks - 450 gm - Dec. '83 - (Sault Ste. Marie Hosp., Cincinnati Enquirer)

Kenya King - 21 weeks - 510 gm - June '85 - (Med. World News, Nov. 11, 1985, p. 119)

Suzanne South - 21 weeks, 2 days - 644 gm - July '71 -(Bethesda Hosp., Cincinnati)

Kelly Thorman - 21 weeks - 596 gm - March '71 - (St. Vincent Hosp., Toledo)

http://www.abortioninfo.net/facts/development4.shtml

[DontAskMe]

The weak should be protected by the strong... on the other hand, I've sometimes mused that parents would have more influence their teenagers if they retained the right to "abort" as long as the child lived under the parent's roof.

Abortion, more than any other thing, has cheapened our collective sense of sanctity for our "right to live". Without that right, what good are any others?

S/F