{"id":165619,"date":"2017-05-04T07:17:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T11:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=165619"},"modified":"2017-05-04T00:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T04:17:57","slug":"the-glaring-irony-of-jimmy-kimmels-emotional-monologue-about-his-newborn-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-glaring-irony-of-jimmy-kimmels-emotional-monologue-about-his-newborn-son\/","title":{"rendered":"The glaring irony of Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional monologue about his newborn son"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Save the Storks<\/a>)\u00a0A few nights ago, Jimmy Kimmel opened his show with a tearful monologue discussing his newborn son, who was born with a rare heart disease and had to undergo an emergency surgery just hours after being born. Kimmel, who is known to be a big family man, was understandably\u00a0shaken up by the event, shedding a tears on the stage.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, after a successful surgery, William John Kimmel is now doing well and is at home with his family. Kimmel shared a picture of the healthy, smiling baby boy, which received a loud applause from the audience.<\/p>\n

I always love when celebrities celebrate their wives and kids publicly and I admire Kimmel for sharing about this scary experience in such a vulnerable way. However, while my hope isn\u2019t to downplay any traumatic experiences like Kimmel\u2019s, I can\u2019t help but notice the irony of this situation in relation to the tragedy\u00a0of abortion.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kimmel\u2019s story tugged on heartstrings of people around the nation, not necessarily because he\u2019s a celebrity, but because his story is about an innocent life that was in\u00a0danger. Most everyone can agree that this situation is scary\u00a0and that the life of a human being\u00a0is the most valuable thing there is. However, to many, including most celebrities, a baby in his mother\u2019s womb is not a human being at all, but rather a \u201cclump of cells\u201d and a \u201cchoice\u201d to be made.<\/p>\n

There are only two things that differentiate children like William from babies\u00a0whose lives are ended in their mothers\u2019 wombs \u2013 their location and the fact that they were wanted.<\/p>\n

This contradiction is glaring and disheartening. How could these two things possibly change the value of a life so drastically?<\/p>\n

The answer? They\u00a0don\u2019t. At all.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n