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WHERE IS THE CHORUS OF “I TOLD YOU SO"s…...?

Back when the fight to legalize abortion was being fought - the fight that led to ROE V. WADE - we heard all kinds of warnings about where our society would end up if we adopted a view of human life that allows the killing of unborn children. People who issued these warnings were called all sorts of negative things—inflammatory, fundamentalist, dogmatic, etc. Those who favored “abortion rights” were adamant that there really was a difference between the unborn and those of us on the outside, and that the line between abortion and infanticide would NOT be crossed.

Think again…..

Around the world, the same excuses that have been used to kill the unborn are now be used to kill children who have already been born. Holland recently passed a law legalizing “baby euthanasia,” according to a March 2006 article in the The Times in the United Kingdom. If a child is born sick, her parents can choose to kill her.

Of course, this is only logical. The biological facts of the matter are that there is no bright line that defines a new individual living person EXCEPT the joining of the female and male pronucleus to produce the human chromosome complement of 46….and not just any human chromosome complement, but a unique grouping that is different from any other human being on earth…..

There is no division point in the life of a human being (from conception to natural death) that is supported by the biological reality. Every other suggestion is arbitrary at one level or another, and is patently chosen to advance some agenda that puts the life of the new (and supremely vulnerable) human being at risk in order to advance the interests of more powerful human beings - those, in fact, who are making the decision.

You don’t believe it?

According to a CNN.com story, “postpartum depression is recognized as a legal defense [for infanticide] in at least 29 countries, including Great Britain, Canada, Italy and Australia, [Professor Michelle] Oberman said. Those countries have infanticide laws, which state that when a woman kills a child under the age of 1 and she can prove that the ‘balance of her mind is disturbed’ by reasons relating to giving birth, the maximum charge the woman can face is manslaughter.”

“The practical result of these statutes is that these women receive probation instead of jail time and they receive sentences that require probation plus counseling,” Oberman said in the article.

Probation? For infanticide? In what way does the fact that child was killed by her own mother mitigate the crime?

Philip Resnick, a psychiatry professor at Case Western Reserve University, said in the CNN.com article, “Those infanticide acts, particularly in England … limit it to the first year by law. In other words, if a baby is killed after 364 days, the mother is charged with infanticide, if it’s 370 days, they are charged with murder.” So there it is: from the day a child is born, the clock is ticking. You have one year to kill your baby and still get away with probation plus counseling.

Of course, England and other countries around the world have all kinds of strange laws, but here in the United States we’re much more attuned to human rights, to the protection of the weak and the disadvantaged, and to the equality of all human beings. Remember? “...that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….” Hold on to your hats.

This trend is coming to the United States, courtesy of the American Left. Just ask Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), when she thinks life begins. Former Republican Senator Rick Santorum asked her, “You agree, once the child is born, [and] separated from the mother, that the child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed[?] Do you agree with that?”

The simple answer would have been “yes”. But that is not what she said. Instead, Boxer said, “I think that when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born … the baby belongs to your family and has rights.”

This is the end of the “pro-choice” slippery slope that we put ourselves on so many years ago. A child is only a person if her parents decide that she is, and not one second sooner. That is why Senator Boxer says that children are only protected when their parents bring them home.

We can also look at the case of infamous child-murderer Andrea Yates, a woman who drowned her five children in a bathtub. The Houston chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), America’s leading feminist group, formed an “Andrea Yates Support Coalition,” which planned to raise money for her defense. Normal people saw Yates as a bloodthirsty killer; feminists saw a women’s rights icon.

I can think of no crime more appalling than a parent killing his or her own child. It is absolutely intolerable, and yet it is rapidly becoming more acceptable in our society. What will the liberals think of next?

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