dispatches from TJICistan

http://www.getreligion.org/?p=2431

In recent weeks we’ve seen a couple of really good articles about the ethics and values of abortion supporters. Liza Mundy, a staff writer for The Washington Post Magazine, had another excellent entry that relates to the topic with her Sunday piece on women pregnant with more than one fetus who wish they had fewer…

And, sure enough, on [sonographer Rachel] Greenbaum’s screen were three little honeycombed chambers with three fetuses growing in them. The fetuses were moving and waving their limbs; even at this point, approaching 12 weeks of gestation, they were clearly human, at that big-headed-could-be-an-alien-but-definitely-not-a-kitten stage of development…

… So far, there was nothing anomalous about any of the fetuses. Greenbaum turned the screen toward the patient. “That’s the little heartbeat,” she said, pointing to the area where a tiny organ was clearly pulsing. “And there are the little hands. There’s the head. The body.”

“Oh, my God, I can really see it!” the patient cried. “Oh, my God! I can see the fingers!”

“Okay!” she said, abruptly, gesturing for the screen to be turned away. She began sobbing. There were no tissues in the room, so her husband gave her a paper towel, which she crumpled to her face. The patient spent the rest of the procedure with her hospital gown over her face, so she would not see any more of what was happening…

Evans worked for a while trying to get the needle into the right spot…

Then he … pushed the plunger to release the chemical. The fetus, which had been undulating and waving, went still…

I believe (in keeping with Catholic theology on the definition of sin) that a pro-choice person who honestly does not believe that abortion is wrong does not commit a sin by aborting a child.

Sin is freely choosing that which one knows is wrong.

The fact that this women looked at her unborn child, saw its hands, fingers, head, and body, and felt enough of a revulsion to the act that she was paying for that she could not watch it, convinces me that this woman definitely knew she was doing evil.

I do not like, but do not loathe, physical cowardice. I understand why people freak out when they fear that a plane is about to crash, or that someone is about to throw a punch at them.

I can not abide moral cowardice.

This woman chose to kill one of her fetuses. She then couldn’t stand to watch it being done…but allowed it to continue.

Why did she have three fetuses ?

…she and her husband had IVF performed, producing three embryos. To maximize the chances of a successful pregnancy, all three embryos were put into her uterus…

I wonder if she’ll tell her two surviving children that she killed their brother or sister in the womb?

If she knows she did nothing wrong, she’d have no reason not to.

I’m betting she won’t.

I’m going to sound hopelessly old-fashioned here, but here’s hoping that the mother repents, finds forgiveness, and can eventually live with herself.

Still, she [ the abortionist ] says: “It’s a very hard procedure, because the baby is moving, and you are chasing it. That is what is very emotional – when the baby is moving and you are chasing it…

“See the tip?� [ another abortionists ] said, showing the women where the tip of the needle was visible on the ultrasound screen. Even I could see it: a white spot hovering near the heart… he started injecting. He went very slowly. “If you inject too fast, you blow the kid off your needle,” he explained…

Here’s hoping that the two abortionists (who also sound like they know that they’re doing wrong) repent, find forgiveness, and can eventually live with themselves.

And, of course, here’s hoping that neither one of them kills any more – and I’m using their word here – “kids”.

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