“I am very troubled by the callous behavior of Planned Parenthood staff in recently released videos …” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The above-quoted statement was made by Democrat U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, as quoted by John Kass in his column “What’s the cost of avoiding the Planned Parenthood videos?”
The title of this post is a statement that Kass makes. Here is an excerpt from his column:
But the issue isn’t whether abortion is legal. Abortion has been legal for decades. That’s not going to change.
This is something else again: Reducing human life to a commodity, subject to market whims, where the “procedure” (meaning abortion) is altered so that the fetal organs may be kept intact, to be bartered and sold.
You can say that it’s not human life. And many do. But in this case, using euphemisms is a shield. I suppose we can convince ourselves that the research “materiel” is not human, until of course, you see a lab tech with tweezers pick up a tiny limb.
And though many avoid the implications of this, it just might be that there is a cost, to all of us, even as we shut our eyes.
Anti-Republican pundits are quick to rant against Republicans who speak negatively about abortion, but do such pundits understand what abortion is all about? Apparently, Democrat U.S. Senator Joe Manchin does.
Anything with a beating heart is alive, and the human heart begins beating 3 weeks after conception.
People can favor keeping abortion legal in certain cases without closing their eyes to what abortion does to a beating human heart.
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