Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. -- Proverbs 31:8
Not only are late-term abortions brutal and barbaric, requiring either dismemberment in the womb, or cerebral evacuation as part of a partial birth procedure, but because abortion activists can't let a foot in the door of the personhood argument, no anesthetic is provided to the 5-month (or more) old unborn infant, despite medical evidence that the victim is pain-capable. So, in order to protect the right to have an elective abortion at any time prior to birth, excruciating physical pain, without even the benefit of pain-killers, is inflicted on the unborn child. They are literally torn apart or summarily executed in Gosnell-fashion.
Ironically, if these same procedures were inflicted on a seal, whale, or other "endangered species" it would be a felony subject to prison time and massive fines. But for an unborn human child, there is no limit to the cruelty that can legally be inflicted.
A late-term abortion ban is what the House passed recently, and the Texas Legislature attempted to pass into law last night, but was prevented due to the chaos and the near rioting of the abortion supporters in the gallery.
You do not need a religious basis to oppose late-term abortions, just a common sense of human decency. Apparently, even that is asking too much.
But even if it were to become painless, as our society will likely improve its methods of fetal killing, it would still be immoral, since imposing a death sentence on someone for no other reason except convenience, is, by definition, immoral.
There are parallels in history regarding societies and civilizations that no longer valued human life and/or abandoned common human decency; cultures that sacrificed their children to various pagan deities and/or disdained traditional human families. To a one, all of them ended badly.
For know this:
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man [or woman, or nation] sows, that he [they] will also reap. (Galatians 6:7, NKJV).
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. (2 Corinthians 5:10, NKJV).
But the battle is the Lord's, and though from our perspective He is long-suffering, in the end He always wins.
