Are Babies Becoming Disposable?
From Abortion to Infanticide, Are America's Babies Becoming Disposable?
When the story first surfaced about the Louisiana mother who threw her live, new-born baby into Lake Pontchartrain, it was shocking news. How could a mother do such a thing to her baby?(1) When the remains of little Caylee Marie Anthony were discovered, tossed out in the woods in a trash bag in 2008, millions followed the investigation and trial from 2008 - 2011.
But infant life is becoming disposable here in America.
Take two recent cases where babies were allegedly murdered at abortion clinics after being born live. In one fairly recent case, a California nurse practitioner is reported to have deliberately stabbed and killed a 35-week-old baby born alive during an abortion at Tiller's Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. (2)
In another case during the same time period, a teenager named Sycloria Williams, who was 23 weeks pregnant, went to the office of Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique, a Florida physician, for an abortion. While the girl was waiting for Dr. Renelique to arrive, she began to feel ill and was told to take a couple of pills to induce labor and sit in a room. The teen gave birth to a baby while waiting for the doctor to arrive. The live baby was stuffed with the afterbirth into a red biohazard bag and thrown into a garbage can. (3)
A murder investigation has been opened involving the California nurse practitioner , and charges are pending against Renelique, and Belkis Gonzalez, co-owner of the Florida clinic where Renelique practiced, but infant life is becoming increasingly disposable here in America.
Each time we slice up a baby in the womb and suck it out like garbage and call it "tissue," we devalue infant life. Every time we turn a blind eye to procedure's where a live, wriggling baby is delivered all the way to the base of its little head... and then a sharp implement is driven into the base of its skull so its brains can be sucked out, we are most assuredly making infant life of no value.
Babies have become disposable here in America.
Really -- REALLY -- is it any wonder some young women growing up in America today have little compunction about leaving their live newborns in toilets, throwing them in dumpsters, tossing them into Lake Pontchartrain, or throwing them in the woods in a trash bag? Our society is teaching these young women their own wants and convenience are much more important than the life they carry inside them. Is it any wonder some young mothers decide that their newborn babies are disposable? A few weeks before and their child's death in a clinic would have been perfectly legal. A few weeks before and the baby WOULD have been disposed of - diced, suction, or burned with salt or other chemicals, removed and thrown away with the rest of the trash.
The sad stories of women who kill their new-born babies are the natural progression of a society that teaches them such things are their choice. If it is perfectly legal to kill a baby in utero, or 3/4 of the way out of the uterus, what difference could the process of sliding down the birth canal possibly make?
The case of little Caylee Marie Anthony is just the natural progression of what happens in a society where infant life is devalued. Where do we draw the line at the death of an inconvenient lump of tissue? When the tissue is in the womb? Right after the tissue is born? A couple of years later when the almost 3-year-old tissue is holding us back from our lifestyle?
Note: The actual number of abortions dropped to a new low in 2005, the last firm stats I could find, with 1.2 million abortions in 2005, compared to a high of 1.6 million abortions in 1990. It is hoped education and prayer are making an impact on the epidemic of abortion, that this trend will continue, and that the next generation will take a dimmer view of disposable babies. (4)
SOURCES
Louisiana Mother Dumps Newborn Baby in Lake Pontchartrain
Former Abortion Clinic Worker Testifies that Live-Born Baby was Stabbed to Death
Lawsuit Filed for Baby Born Alive at Abortion Clinic then Killed and Hidden from Police
U.S. Abortion Rate Falls to Lowest Level in Decades
Related:
Abortionist Kermit Gosnell Charged with Murder
Abortionist Dr. George Tiller Shot to Death at Church on Sunday, May 31
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15 Comments
Post a CommentThanks for the nice comments, everyone. I am saddened every time I hear about the brutal slaying of innocent, helpless babies - born and unborn.
You've written eloquently about a most difficult topic! When I was a Girl Scout Leader to middle schoolers, the troop wanted to earn their Silver Award - It's usually limited to selecting a project that is 'within' the GS organization. I got special permission from the Cross Timbers GS Council, Denton, TX - when the troop made it known to me in no uncertain terms that they wanted to draw public attention and support to a local Denton County area non-profit agency that was struggling to assist women & girls in crisis pregnancy situations - What a life changing & marvelous experience for many - and the pebble was indeed tossed into the pond! The on-going community response in reaction to what that little troop of 4 girls started continues to this day in an annual diaper drive (which of course snowballs into much more than diapers). WRITE ON!
I feel too that women have alienated men from this issue through the feminist movement. Together men and women standing up for the unborn could change a lot of things. But, grassroots, women have to affirm the importance of motherhood once again to a new generation.
good work but very sad..
Great, brave article - you are so right. But if Pres. Obama keeps reversing all the bans on the most heinous kinds of abortion, we will see more "live birth abortions" again - sick newborns being left to die -- not at the hands of scared teenagers, but by hospital employees. This happened in Illinois and resulted in the Born Alive Infant Protection Act passed by Pres. Bush.
I wonder how any person will be able to explain to our Maker why this is so.
very powerful write up!!
Breaks my heart!
I would hope babies wouldn't be disposable. They're the next generation.
This is a very hot topic. I wonder if better awareness of the Baby Moses law would help some young women. There are fire stations in every neighborhood. In response to Charlene, lesser extremes of the situation you mention still occur.