When speaking to the broader public–as opposed to what they tell each other–pro-abortionists will often feign an attitude that they, too, understand that abortion is serious business and not to be trivialized. They don’t mean it for a half-second, of course, but for public consumption it helps take the edge off their fanaticism.
I ran across just such an example from the webpage of the DC Abortion Fund that appeared a long time ago. But it characterized their cavalier attitude then just as it does so today.
One of their activists went to a hearing with a proposal to enact the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The musings on that post were NOT for the wider public–just fellow pro-abortionists–so they could mischaracterize and misrepresent and cavalierly trivialize to their heart’s delight.
Years ago, Anthony Levatino, M.D., performed abortions before he became pro-life. He has testified many times on the ghastly abortion techniques. Dr. Levatino went into considerable detail in describing a “D&E” abortion-an abortion technique that dismembers the baby. He said “Imagine, if you can, that you are a pro-choice obstetrician/gynecologist like I once was. Your patient today is 24 weeks pregnant (LMP).”
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He went on:
“Picture yourself reaching in with the Sopher clamp [an instrument for grasping and crushing tissue] grasping anything you can. At twenty-four weeks gestation, the uterus is thin and soft so be careful not to perforate or puncture the walls. Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard–really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about six inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm about the same length. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs.”
As difficult as this is to read, it is twenty times more difficult to watch the video of Dr. Levatino’s oral testimony.
When I saw that Sopher clamp, I swallowed hard. And then, holding the Sopher Clamp as he spoke, Dr. Levatino concluded his testimony with
“you know you did it right if you crush down, a white material runs out of the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. Then you can pull out skull pieces. Many times a little face will come back and stare back at you … And if you think that doesn’t hurt, if you believe that isn’t an agony for the baby, please think again.”
The activist waved away Dr. Levatino’s testimony:
“Anti-choice activists like Levatino are most successful when they have us all cringing instead of thinking rationally. But [the proposed bill] doesn’t allow for much science and reason.”
Ripping off arms and legs–and brains spilling out as a baby’s head is crushed–is just like “your last dental cleaning,” she wrote. Only an “anti-choice activist” could NOT see the similarity.
This ability to be bored and annoyed in the presence of soul-sucking brutality is, I gather, the product of what she sees as a commitment to “science and reason.”
Thank goodness I can still cringe. I would hate to think what it would say about me if I couldn’t.
