Viability, health and other pro-abortion lies

The Freedom of Choice Act — which, ironically, denies all freedoms to the unborn human beings — is a case study in liberal double-speak.  While pretending to provide limits for abortion it actually removes them all.  Here is the language:

It is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to bear a child, to terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability, or to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect the life or health of the woman.

Viability is basically a feel good term to make the pro-aborts sound like they have some standards.  But as commenter Marshall Art pointed out, it is a deliberately ambiguous term.  If the line keeps moving with technology, and at any point in time varies with the invidiual human being in question, the quality of health care in the area, etc. then those should be clues that it isn’t a good criterion for whether abortion should be allowed. 

Also, you never know the viability of a child until she lives.  Even if you knew a concrete time period for viability, newborns can’t live without care and we (currently) don’t permit infanticide. 

Also, as a commenter pointed out, viability means she is living in one environment and could live in another as well.  But even if she isn’t viable outside the womb yet, she’d be viable if you’d leave her there a little longer!

But with respect to FOCA, the viability phrase is completely irrelevant.  The key word in the Bill is “health,” which is inserted to invalidate everything that came before it, including the viability claim.  Health can mean anything and everything, including the risk of depression for someone who wants a partial birth abortion.  So the Bill is typical liberal-speak.  It sounds like it is making restrictions but is really saying that there are none.

And think carefully about this: Under what circumstances does a partial birth abortion improve the health of the woman?  At a point in the operation the baby will be positioned as in the picture to the right.  The claim of the pro-legalized abortion lobby is that temporarily stopping the delivery to pierce the baby’s skull and remove her brains is necessary for the mother’s health.  But why not just deliver a live baby? 

The pro-abortion movement was founded on lies and is being perpetuated based on lies. 

Shame on anyone who supports this Bill, and especially on anyone claiming to be a Christian.

Please go here to sign a petition to fight the Freedom of Choice Act.