{"id":186809,"date":"2018-08-17T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T15:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=186809"},"modified":"2018-08-17T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T19:01:23","slug":"abortion-not-surgeries-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-not-surgeries-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion is not just like other surgeries, because abortion is killing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortionist Gabrielle Goodrick recently penned an open letter<\/a> to doctors, claiming that they must support abortion or put themselves in \u201cprofessional jeopardy.\u201d She suggests that following the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, \u201cwe are now staring into the face of a country without legal abortion,\u201d a prospect that she thinks endangers the work of all doctors.\u00a0In other words, Goodrick claims that the integrity of medicine requires the legal killing of preborn babies.<\/p>\n

In claiming abortion is just like other surgery, the preborn baby is ignored<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nowhere in her letter does Goodrick mention the baby, yet in every abortion, a preborn baby is violently killed. Goodrich unsurprisingly misrepresents pro-life laws as arbitrary impediments to proper medical care and the pro-life position as exclusively faith-based. She writes:<\/p>\n

No surgeon would be allowed to say, \u201cI just don\u2019t believe in removing gallbladders\u201d and still be allowed to practice. Yet when it comes to abortion, you\u2019ve now set the standard. You\u2019ve allowed a procedure that is conducted more than any other in the nation to be moved to the fringes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

But abortion isn’t like removing a defective organ; it is deliberately removing and causing the death of a distinct human being. Goodrick ignores the scientific reality of fetal development, the rational basis of the pro-life position. In the\u00a0Gonzales v. Carhart <\/em>decision, the Supreme Court\u00a0acknowledges<\/a><\/u> \u201cthe Government\u2019s legitimate interest in protecting fetal life.\u201d Pro-life laws protect the life of the preborn child, and the pro-life position can be based on scientific facts and ethical arguments independent of religious beliefs.<\/p>\n

If a person is experiencing painful gallstones, removing the gallbladder is a logical choice. If a woman is experiencing dangerously elevated blood pressure, septicemia, or cancer while pregnant, inserting instruments into the woman\u2019s body and violently taking apart a living human being and then extracting the pieces of that human being is not<\/em> a logical response. Sometimes, the life-threatening complications of the mother require the premature delivery and possible demise of the baby, but deliberately killing the baby inside the mother\u2019s body before delivery is not safe and is not a necessary medical choice.<\/p>\n