This is the headline of the Associated Press story carried on the
website of the NBC affiliate television station (KXAN) in Austin, Texas.
It’s about a woman named Dynel Lane, who slit open the womb of Michelle
Wilkins and removed her unborn baby girl. The baby died shortly
thereafter. According to the AP, “Lane is charged with attempted
first-degree murder, assault and unlawful termination of a pregnancy in
the March 2015 attack on Michelle Wilkins in Longmont (Colorado).”
Here’s the moral irony: “District Attorney Stan Garnett said earlier
that prosecutors couldn’t charge Lane in the baby’s death because a
coroner found no evidence the fetus lived outside the womb. That angered
conservatives in the Colorado Legislature, who had previously tried but
failed to enact a law making it a crime to kill a fetus. Colorado’s law
against unlawful termination of a pregnancy was a compromise that
stemmed from earlier debates on the issue.”
It’s a “fetus” until removed from the womb, right? No: She was a baby
whether in or out of the womb. The only thing that changed was where
she lived. For the first eight months of her life, the baby lived
inside her mother. For a few hours, she lived outside of her mother’s
womb.
Yet even the AP or NBC headline writer couldn’t admit to the ridiculous
terminological gymnastics demanded by a society whose unwillingness to
acknowledge the personhood of unborn children requires it to retain the
embarrassing legal fiction known as the “fetus.”
The writer of the headline called the child what she was: A baby.
Why do advocates of abortion on-demand insist on using this obscure,
dehumanizing term (“fetus”)? Because if they acknowledge the personhood
of the unborn child, suddenly the unavoidable reality of what abortion
is – the killing of a tiny child at his or her most vulnerable stage of
existence – roars into full view. And that they must bypass at all
costs, stepping around “baby” like it is a rhetorical and, more
importantly, a moral landmine for their cause. Which, of course, it is.
For all their professed care for women, the predatory abortion industry
has a sordid record. As FRC recently document with our allies at the American Center for Law and Justice in a Supreme Court legal brief,
“No one expects to see an ambulance pulling away from a dermatology or
dental office. Yet ambulances are a frequent sight at abortion
facilities.”
But there has been good news over the past few days concerning babies (unborn, that is) in Wisconsin and Ohio:
• “(Wisconsin) Gov. Scott Walker signed two bills
Thursday (February 18) that cut by several million dollars a year the
amount of public money that goes to Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin ...
One bill restricts how much Planned Parenthood can be reimbursed for
prescription drugs, stripping it of an estimated $4 million a year,
according to Planned Parenthood. A second measure is expected to cut
another $3.5 million in government payments to Planned Parenthood
because it provides abortions.”
Of note is that Walker signed the measures publically at a local
pregnancy care center, one that provides life-affirming options for
women and their unborn children.
• Ohio Gov. John Kasich also “signed legislation
Sunday (February 21) to strip government money from Planned Parenthood
in Ohio.” However, unlike Walker, “The governor did not sign the bill
in public. His office made the announcement in a statement.”
At least, though, Kasich did sign the measure. According to LifeNews.com, “Planned Parenthood runs three abortion centers in the state and every Planned Parenthood clinic refers women for abortions.”
This comes after Ohio Attorney General and former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine
found, in December of last year, that “Fetal remains from three Planned
Parenthood facilities in Ohio were sent to companies that then disposed
of them in landfills in violation of state administrative rules.”
Quoted in Reuters, DeWine said at the time, “Disposing of aborted
fetuses from an abortion by sending them to a landfill is callous and
completely inhumane. It is important the public be aware that these
practices are taking place at these Ohio facilities."
Parents.com features a wonderful site called, “What My Baby Looks Like.” In it, all 40 weeks of an unborn child’s development are portrayed and described.
And the site says, as plain as day, “What My Baby” – not “Fetus” – “Looks Like.”
Imagine that.
To learn more about Planned Parenthood’s notorious abortion
business and its ongoing harvesting of baby body parts, read the
important new study, “Investigating Planned Parenthood and Research Using Aborted Babies,” by the Director of FRC’s Center for Human Dignity, Arina Grossu.
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