Thursday, August 21, 2008

This One Might Have Legs.

The Obama camp is on the defensive over this infanticide thing. If you have not heard yet, While Obama was a state senator in Illinois, he voted three time against a bill that would require doctors to give medical attention to babies who survive botched abortions and would have given them legal rights. Every time this bill came up he gave his reasons that he was against it, and every time those reasons were addressed in other versions of the bill he still voted against it.

The thing that blows my mind is the term “botched abortion”. Most of the time “botched” used in medical terminology means that the doctor messed up and the patient died, as in; botched heart surgery or botched chemo treatment. But this is the complete opposite. Botched abortion means that the doctor messed up and the child lives. So the question becomes, does this child have rights, once it is outside the womb, detached form the umbilical cord and breathing on its on? I would have to say yes. (My pay grade is much lower than Obama’s, but I have no trouble answering this question.)

Now I know that some in the pro choice crowd believe in abortions for any reason, any time, at any age, preferably paid for by the tax payers of the US, but come on. Maybe we should pass a law that says the doctor only gets one shot at it, if he or she messes up and the baby lives, the child is taken to an incubator and kept alive until the mother awakens and is well enough to walk. She is then given a claw hammer and told to do it herself.

Come on people weather or not you are pro life or pro abortion or fall some where in the middle, can we not all agree that once a child is outside the womb it is a life? If life does not start in side the womb, or outside the womb, then when does it start? And why are Obama, and The National Organization for Women the only ones who can decide this? Oh, I’m sorry that question is above Obama’s pay grade.

If the man can’t answer this simple question, then what kind of response will the joint chefs get when they ask, “Mr. President, what should our response be now that Russia has started military action against all of eastern Europe?” I for one do not want to find out.

1 comment:

Jeff said...

I have no problem with abortion in the first trimester. It should be heavily regulated in the 2nd. Third trimester abortion is abhorant and should be banned (with exception to the life of the mother). So the practice of allowing a child outside the womb to die is beyond reproach. This is one of those unfortunate positions where I part with my candidate. Russia starting military action with all of Eastern Europe? That's very neocon you Jonah Goldberg lover!!! ha ha ha. I'm adressing this in a new post over at acrobat...