Gerry,
If abortion is not murder, I’d be curious to know what you would define it as? The death of a “parasite no longer living off a host”, as you put it? You did come out of your mother’s womb, so at what point did you stop being a parasite and start becoming human? I’d like to test you on your knowledge of the subject matter.
Here is a medical illustration of 23-week abortion performed at Family Planning Associates, 2777 Long Beach Boulevard a few miles from the campus: http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/generateexhibit.php?ID=9663&ExhibitKeywordsRaw=&TL=&A=2.
Too human-like? Parasite too big, you’d feel better with a smaller one? It shouldn’t matter — a parasite isn’t human, right?
I stood outside that facility every Saturday for 7 years. Would you like to see a video of an ambulance whisking a woman away after a botched abortion, having her “parasite” removed?
Children Parasites are viable at 23 weeks.
You might want to look up your definition of late-term abortion. Here is Planned Parenthood’s research arm, the Guttmacher Institute’s latest paper on the subject (dated April 1, 2011): http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_PLTA.pdf.
Note their comment: “Although the vast majority of states restrict later-term abortions, many of these restrictions have been struck down.”
It seems there is another person who is not mentioned at all in your article, someone with a beating heart: http://www.ehd.org/movies.php?mov_id=21.
Oh wait, it’s only a parasite. I go back to when you stopped being a parasite, and became a living, human being. When was that, Gerry?
-Dyanne Roper
[Editor’s note: This letter is in reponse to Gerry Wachovsky’s April 19 column: “Abortion and Genocide are much different than pro-life activists think.”]
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