The other night I caught a program on National Geographic Channel entitled "In The Womb." The program has a website here. Interesting to note that while the narrator consistently used the term "fetus," the doctors routinely talked to parents about "your baby" while viewing ultrasounds. Apparently, a definable emotional bond is created between parents and their child simply through seeing the child (or should I say "fetus") on the viewing screen. I urge readers to investigate the "In The Womb" site. It baffles me that we can see images like the ones on that program and learn so much about the sophistication of the child in utero and then eagerly support abortion on demand, or even worse.
Even worse? I direct you to a story previously noted by Jonah Goldberg and Peter Schramm.
SUFFOLK — A judge dismissed on Monday charges against a 22-year-old pregnant Suffolk woman who shot herself in the stomach to abort her unborn child.
If the case had gone forward, it would have been the first time that a woman would have been tried in Virginia for aborting her own baby.
Tammy Skinner - scheduled to give birth to her third daughter on the day of the shooting - called 911 early Feb. 23 from a downtown parking lot and told the dispatcher that someone shot her.
Police later charged her with illegally inducing her own abortion, filing a false police report and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. On Monday, Judge James D. Moore sentenced Skinner to 30 days in jail for filing a false police report then suspended all her jail time. Prosecutors asked Moore to drop the firearms charge because it doesn't apply to inducing an abortion.
On July 10, Moore will decide whether Skinner has to pay between $750 and $1,500 for the cost of the investigation.
Skinner, unemployed and living on welfare, initially told police she couldn't remember the last name of the man who picked her up, shot her and then pushed her out of a car Feb. 23. Later, she told police that the unborn child's father shot her. Skinner is the mother of two girls, 1 and 4.
The bold face is by Jonah Goldberg's post at NRO. Think about this. A woman shoots her baby and the law does nothing. Perhaps a matter of hours and certainly days later this is "murder one." But the "fetus" is inside the mother, so, as we all know, this is simply a "fetus" not a "human being."
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