Hi everyone I hope you're all well. So last week
New York State made somewhat of a monumental change to its laws
surrounding the termination of pregnancy. Under the guise of protecting State Law
from the evil Brett Kavanaugh and his terrible attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade
even though he told Susan Collins he wasn't gonna do that and aside from
anything else that's not how the courts work but, you know, whatever. New York
State Governor Andrew Cuomo passed the suitably ambiguously titled
Reproductive Health Act which, among other things, erases the state's previous restrictions
on the termination of pregnancies 24 weeks and over. Now this has
understandably been met with a strong reaction. Feminists and so-called
pro-choice crowd are celebrating it as a great leap forward for women's rights
and body autonomy and celebrate it they did. - After years of disapproval from a
Republican-controlled Senate the Reproductive Health Act is now signed
into law with the Democrats now in control of both houses. - There's nothing
radical about it it codifies the law from 1973, that's all it does.
In fact it was so celebrated in New York that they lit up
the top of the One World Trade Center in pink. Those in the pro-life camp however
are asserting that it is an unnecessary overreach of New York's already
comparatively liberal abortion laws and that it will allow the procedure to
happen for any reason right up until the moment of birth. So what does the
legislation actually say? Well in summary: the amended legislation takes abortion
out of the Penal Code entirely. It also declassifies fetuses after 24 weeks as
potential homicide victims. It allows medical practitioners other than doctors
and licensed physicians to perform abortions. Most significantly it's made
some key changes to the qualifiers required in order to have the procedure.
According to the legislation: a woman may have an abortion if she is within 24
weeks from the commencement pregnancy or there is an absence of
fetal viability or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient's life
or health. Finally the legislation makes abortion a fundamental right under New
York State's Constitution. As the left likes to say let's unpack this.
For the record I have no problem with a lack of fetal viability being added to the
qualifiers that I can understand. However the rest of the legislation is based on
a number of myths about abortion which are promoted by pro-abortion activists
as facts. The common argument for example that they give for taking abortion out
of the Penal Code is that apparently doctors can be held criminally liable if
they perform an abortion. Well this is true if that doctor is not a duly
licensed physician and if the abortion is not performed for one of the
exceptions already outlined in New York Penal Code. See this is what has been
left out of this discussion so far. Previously the legislation criminalized
what is termed abortion in the first and second degree. First degree denotes
abortion after 24 weeks. Second degree is abortion pre-24 weeks. However in both of
these sections it explicitly states that there are exceptions
pursuant to section 125.05 of New York Penal Code, which states an abortional
act is justifiable when committed upon a female with her consent by a duly
licensed physician acting a) under a reasonable belief that such is necessary
to preserve her life or b) within 24 weeks from the commencement of her
pregnancy the same rules apply to women performing a self abortional act.
In other words a woman was already perfectly able to get an abortion before
24 weeks anyway with no hassle and could also get one after 24 weeks if there was
a threat to her life. The reason that abortion was in the Penal Code was to
protect women from dodgy, unqualified physicians, to protect them from unsafe,
unhygenic clinics and also protect them from forced abortion. Now women are
absent protections and now that fetuses greater
than 24 weeks can no longer be considered potential homicide victims a
woman is left with no ability to criminally prosecute a potential
attacker who harms and kills her unborn child. Also if a woman who is more than
six months pregnant is murdered it can no longer be considered a double
homicide. So correct me if I'm wrong and I do mean that because I really hope I
am wrong, but this legislation decriminalizes unsafe abortions, allows
anyone who happens to have a medical license and an unspecified degree of
know-how to perform an abortion, removes any protection women had under the law
against corrupt, unqualified physicians and unfit, unsafe backdoor clinics,
renders a woman unable to seek justice against someone who kills her unborn
child, legally allows doctors to leave a baby to die if it survives a late-term
abortion which does happen and dresses it all up as bestowing upon women a
fundamental right to supposedly control their so-called reproductive health.
And that brings me to a key point in this whole thing. The amended
legislation states that abortion is now permitted after 24 weeks if it is
necessary to protect the woman's life and health.
Now that pesky little word health is very, very ambiguous -- deliberately so and
can mean a whole host of things. If you look at the generally accepted
definition of health as outlined in the Constitution of the World Health
Organization -- health is a state of complete physical social and mental
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It is a resource
which permits people to lead and individually, socially and economically
productive life. As you can see the definition of the mother's health can be
stretched to cover pretty much everything right down to the social
ramifications of being pregnant. In other words under the amended New York State
law if a mother doesn't want her unborn baby
it is not considered alive. In fact it's considered no more than medical waste.
The other thing that's largely being ignored here is what the procedure of
late-term abortion actually involves. Now this is a question that feminists tend
to dodge they would have you believe that the baby simply evaporates but
let's hear from obstetrician gynecologist and ex abortionist
Dr Anthony Levatino on the subject. *Warning this is gross* Your patient today is 17 years old she's 22
weeks pregnant. Her baby is the length of your hand plus a couple of inches and
she's been feeling her baby kick for the last several weeks. After suctioning the
amniotic fluid out from around the baby you introduce an instrument called the
sopher clamp there are rows of sharp teeth this is a grasping instrument when
it gets a hold of something it does not let go. A D&E procedure is a blind
abortion so picture yourself introducing this and grabbing anything you can
blindly and pull and I do mean hard and out pops a leg about that big which you
put down on the table next to you. Reach in again, pull again, pull out an
arm about the same length and use this instrument again and again to tear out
the spine, the intestines, the heart and lungs. Head and the baby that size is
about the size of a large plum. You know you did it right if
crushed down in the instrument white material runs out of the cervix that was
the babies brains. Congratulations you just successfully performed a second
trimester D&E abortion you just affirmed her right to choose.
But that's not all of it. Abortions that happen even later in
pregnancy involved terminating the life of the infant in the womb, dilating the
cervix and inducing labor so that the mother gives birth to a stillborn.
Now this can be done by a lethal injection of a drug called digoxin into
the baby's head which causes the baby to go into cardiac arrest and therefore
terminates its life. It can also be done although this happens less often
nowadays by injecting a saline solution into the womb, so basically saltwater.
The baby breathes and swallows this concentration and dies over a period of
several hours of salt poisoning, dehydration, brain hemorrhage and
convulsions and make no mistake the baby can feel every bit of these procedures
they are all excruciatingly painful deaths for the fetus. So if you are past
22 weeks pregnant and you decide for some reason you don't want to be
pregnant anymore well you might as well book yourself in for a c-section pop the
baby in an incubator and put it up for adoption. It's a much more humane option
than any of the others. Put this to a feminist and she will heatedly hit you
with the argument used most commonly to shame those on the pro-life side of
things -- that abortion should be legal to save the life of the mother.
You'd be hard-pressed to find a
pro-choice person who would dispute that, that's not an issue.
However just how often does the situation arise where a woman needs an
abortion to save her life? Well rarely, if ever. Let's hear from
Levatino again. - I saw hundreds of cases of really severe pregnancy complications.
Cancers, heart disease, intractable diabetes out-of-control, toxemia
pregnancy out of control and I saved in the in those nine years I saved hundreds
of women from life-threatening pregnancies
and I did that by delivering them, by ending their pregnancy by delivery
either induction of labour or cesarean section. - Delivering the baby - Delivering
the baby. And I always tell people in all of those years the numbers of the number
of babies that I had to, that I was obligated to deliberately kill in the
process was zero. None. You never need late term abortion to save a woman's
life. If necessary you accomplish the delivery. In my experience over almost a
decade I never had to kill deliberately a single child to save a woman's life
during pregnancy. - Considering all of this we can only assume that those cheering
like they'd won the lottery when that bill was passed in New York are
completely ignorant of the facts. That or they know the facts but they just don't
care it is extraordinary to me that these people are claiming to be on the
so-called right side of history. They claim to be the moral enlightened class
full of compassion for the vulnerable yet they are happy to terminate the
lives of the most vulnerable and justify it by simply un-personing them.
The hypocrisy is astounding. That we are living in an age where the termination
of life in the womb is inextricably linked to women's rights is sickening.
So when feminists and abortion activists try to hide behind the my body my choice
mantra or call you a hypocrite if you're a conservative who want small government
call them out for the crap that that is. First of all it's not your body it's
somebody else's body you just happen to be carrying it. Second of all it is the
responsibility of the government if they're going to do anything at all to
protect life and to protect the most vulnerable. An unborn baby is alive and
you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone more vulnerable. Finally and on the
subject of a woman's right to choose half of aborted fetuses would be female.
They would grow up into women if they were allowed to live. Where is their
right to choose. If you liked that video please
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