Wednesday, June 10, 2009
New approach
Barbara Kay in Canada's National Post provides an nicely objective and original approach to the abortion question.
And nobody doubts that premature births pose a significant risk to the child, often leading to various forms of brain damage.
Frankly, I'm not sure that this new approach would make a difference, since the US "legal" system is sworn to uphold, preserve and defend the Gaian Sacrament of abortion above all other considerations in the universe. Nothing may ever interfere with the Sacrament of Death.
If our elites don't care about the survival of children, they aren't likely to care about permanent damage to children ... except for the large medical and educational costs involved with a brain-damaged child. And that's where a political wedge might be applied. Consider the medical cost arguments made for anti-smoking laws, motorcycle helmet laws, etc.
Well, at any rate, Tiller is gone and his clinic is closed. Many other abortionists are still operating, but very few perform the late-term and partial birth killings that Tiller specialized in. So we can assume that some lives have already been saved by the removal of Tiller, and more will be saved in the future. That is absolutely good, no matter what our "legal" system says about it, and no matter how many squeamish qualifications we hear from allegedly pro-life commentators. ¶ 8:03 AM
There's a third side to the debate that gets short media shrift: emerging knowledge about medical risks surrounding induced abortion. Throughout 40 years of highly publicized ideological squabbling, researchers in the field of human reproduction have been quietly beavering away on mounting epidemiological data around induced abortion and its link to preterm birth in a future pregnancy. Recent findings in their research remind us of a "right" generally observed in the breach: the right of women seeking safe abortions to informed consent.
Approximately 100,000 abortions are performed annually in Canada (30 per 100 live births), about a million in the U. S. and some 14 million worldwide, a significant percentage of them repeats (in the U. S. 46%).
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In 2007 Dr. Greg Alexander of the U. S. Institutes of Medicine (a branch of the National Academy of Sciences) identified a "prior first trimester induced abortion" as an "immutable medical risk factor associated with [a later] preterm birth."
And nobody doubts that premature births pose a significant risk to the child, often leading to various forms of brain damage.
In a 2007 article in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Dr. Byron Calhoun et al estimated there were 1,096 annual excess cases of Cerebral Palsy in US newborns under 3.5 lbs that can be directly traced to a prior induced abortion.
Frankly, I'm not sure that this new approach would make a difference, since the US "legal" system is sworn to uphold, preserve and defend the Gaian Sacrament of abortion above all other considerations in the universe. Nothing may ever interfere with the Sacrament of Death.
If our elites don't care about the survival of children, they aren't likely to care about permanent damage to children ... except for the large medical and educational costs involved with a brain-damaged child. And that's where a political wedge might be applied. Consider the medical cost arguments made for anti-smoking laws, motorcycle helmet laws, etc.
Well, at any rate, Tiller is gone and his clinic is closed. Many other abortionists are still operating, but very few perform the late-term and partial birth killings that Tiller specialized in. So we can assume that some lives have already been saved by the removal of Tiller, and more will be saved in the future. That is absolutely good, no matter what our "legal" system says about it, and no matter how many squeamish qualifications we hear from allegedly pro-life commentators. ¶ 8:03 AM
