A 2016 Marist poll revealed that six in 10 Americans think abortion is morally wrong. By a 25-point margin — 56 percent to 31 percent — those polled said they believed that abortion ultimately does the mother more harm than good.
Republican nominee Donald Trump, who is pro-life, has been brutally honest about late-term abortion — which Hillary Clinton supports. “If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month, you can take the baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother, just prior to the birth of the baby,” Trump said with deep disapproval during the last presidential debate.
His words still resonate. It was one of the boldest descriptions yet of the horrors of late-term abortion — and by describing it as such, Trump said what pro-choice liberals do not want women to hear. They do not want women to hear or acknowledge the graphic, terrible truth of what happens to a baby who is aborted almost right before birth.
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In an Oct. 20 New York Times essay entitled, “Why Late-Term Abortion Was Right for Me,” Meredith Isaksen, a poet and English teacher from Berkeley, California, detailed the heartbreaking discovery her baby had developed only half a heart in utero. She was 21 weeks pregnant when she learned this.
“It was very unlikely that our baby would survive delivery, and if he did, he would ultimately need a heart transplant,” she wrote. You can already see the handwriting on the wall.
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Today, heart impairments like the one she described can be attended to surgically. No one’s saying it’s easy — but it’s doable. Other moms have encountered the same tremendous challenge — and chosen life. And never regretted it.
Yet Isaksen and her husband decided to have a late-term abortion just two weeks shy of their child’s viability, at 22 weeks’ gestation.
Here’s why, she wrote: “The decision was about compassion for our unborn baby, who would face overwhelming and horribly painful obstacles. Compassion for our 2-year-old son, who would contend with hours upon hours in a hospital … It was about compassion for our marriage. Perhaps most important, it was about our belief that parenthood sometimes means we sacrifice our own dreams so our children don’t have to suffer.”
“With abortion comes secrecy, and most times that child’s life is not honored because it was purposefully ended.”
Though one’s heart goes out to anyone facing such a stark and difficult reality when nothing of the kind likely ever occurred to them before, it seems this family thought of everyone and everything but the human life the mother was carrying — a human life utterly dependent on her choices.
This is exactly the tragedy of what abortion proponents sell women and families: An imperfect life can be taken — cut short, snuffed out, killed — before it ever sees the light of day. That a baby only has value if it the child is assigned value by others. That the horror of what is happening physically to a baby during abortion — particularly late-term — isn’t true or real, somehow, because it was “chosen.”
Under the dark cloud of this pro-choice abortion doctrine of the radical Left, babies are killed because someone feels like doing so.
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The details of late-term abortion are gruesome at best. But Hillary Clinton and Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, do not want women to think about the grim realities. They’d much rather these women focus on their own future, their own options, their own control of their own life. That way they don’t have to think of death.
“Fear drives abortions — fear is the most powerful component in the decision. It can wear many faces,” Jean Purcell, 77, of Columbia, Maryland, a former crisis pregnancy counselor, told LifeZette. “The mother starts to doubt her own ability and the ability of others to handle something hard, and the question, born of fear, changes to, ‘How would this affect the rest of us?'”
Purcell has been at the bedside of a child who lived only hours after birth and says she felt blessed and honored to witness the interaction between parents and child. “I have seen a mother and father hold their dying baby, and the love, grace, and grieving with loved ones was amazing and incomparable,” she said. On the other hand — “with abortion comes secrecy, and most times that child’s life is not honored because it was purposefully ended.”
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Abortion wreaks havoc on America’s very moral center — but Isaksen indicated she was “bettered” by her late-term abortion.
“Today I am a better mother because of him,” she wrote. “I am a better wife, daughter and friend.”
Yet with abortion — with the intentional killing of a child, no matter how imperfect his or her body might be — there must also be a vast sorrow among those and for those who “did not at least try to rise to the occasion” of caring for that beautiful human life, said Purcell.
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