The baby is born, the mother meets w/the doctor. They take
care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. Then the doctor and mother
determine whether or not they will execute the baby.
A few months ago, in his last State of the Union address, the sniveling, sniffing coward in the White House had declared
Lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage
of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb
moments before birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful, babies who will
never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world. And then,
we had the case of the governor of Virginia where he stated he would execute a
baby after birth.
You'll be shocked to learn that Trump made up the part about
the New York legislation pertaining to ripping a baby from a mother's womb:
The legislation in New York would not have “allowed a baby
to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.” It states a health
care practitioner “may perform an abortion when, according to the
practitioner’s reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the
facts of the patient’s case: the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the
commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the
abortion is necessary to protect the patient’s life or health.”
You will be equally shocked to learn that Trump was wrong upon claiming the Virginia legislation authorizes capital punishment:
The now-tabled bill in Virginia would have reduced the
number of doctors required to agree that “the continuation of the pregnancy is
likely to result in the death of the woman” or “impair the mental or physical
health of the woman” from three to one. It would have also removed the phrase
“substantially and irremediably” from the section describing the required
conditions for a woman to have an abortion.
In other words, continuing pregnancy would no longer have to
“substantially and irremediably impair” a woman’s physical or mental health, it
would simply need to “impair” it. Lastly, the bill would have removed the 24
hour waiting period. The bill also specifies that measures of life support
“shall be available and utilized” if there is evidence of viability.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) was widely criticized for
his comments on the bill after he told a radio show, the procedures are “done
in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s not
viable. So in this particular example, if a mother’s in labor, I can tell you
exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered, the infant would be
kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother
and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the
physicians and the mother.” Critics suggested the governor was endorsing
infanticide. His office later said the governor was referring to medical
treatment, not ending the life of a baby.
Trump not only wants to deny a woman reproductive freedom.
He wants to deny women's agency. The language of "ripping a baby from the mother's
womb" portrays a woman so vacuous and emotionally fragile as to allow a
baby to be snatched from her body without even a peep of protest.
That may be his particular perception of women. That may be the
perception of women common in the community of forced-birth advocates, except
in the Texas legislature.
Generally, though, their motivation is less a low opinion of
women- though that is a factor- than it is their cowardice. Hiding behind the language of executing a baby or ripping it from a womb constitutes a refusal to accept the consequences of your own
ideology or political values.
There are many women who vote, and they would not take
kindly to an abortion regime in which they are held partially responsible for
the death of what forced-birth advocates insist are babies. And so we get the language of right-wing victimhood which creates an alternate universe in which the few doctors who perform an abortion are felons and the women who request them are victims.
It is only fitting
that Donald J. Trump would be behind the violent language of executing a baby or ripping it from a womb and the cowardice that accompanies the graphic, deceitful rhetoric.
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