{"id":188139,"date":"2018-09-17T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T15:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188139"},"modified":"2018-09-12T21:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:48:26","slug":"abortion-workers-respect-life-aborted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-workers-respect-life-aborted\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion workers claim to ‘respect the life’ of babies they abort"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion Clinic Days is a blog<\/a> where abortion workers write about their experiences working in abortion facilities. The text at the top of the blog says, “abortion providers tell stories about their work and the people they help.” These are blog posts by abortion workers still in the abortion industry, and the posts all relate to different aspects of running an abortion facility.\u00a0One post in particular is disturbing because it addresses the way some women and workers justify killing children.<\/p>\n

Under the heading \u201crespect for life,\u201d the blog says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

many years ago i remember a patient telling me that she chose our clinic because she could tell that we respected her and knew that we would therefore respect the life within her. it was very important to her that she have trust in the clinic she chose because she felt that, given her life circumstances, returning her baby to god was the kindest, most maternal thing she could do for it.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

i assured her that her feeling was correct, that we in fact do all we can to honor the life that women are unable to continue and we encourage them to find their own way to make peace with the pregnancy (whether it be a baby or a “pre-baby” to them), figure out how to forgive themselves and also to continue working through any religious or spiritual issues if they have them.<\/em><\/p>\n

How can an abortion facility “respect the life” of a baby by killing<\/em> him or her? Anyone can kill a person and frame it as \u201creturning that person to God,\u201d or even use the idea to defend the killing of someone facing possible future suffering (which is every person on earth). \u201cReturning someone to God\u201d is a euphemism for murder. Killing someone not only deprives that person of future suffering, but of future happiness. The woman is claiming that killing her child is in the child\u2019s best interest, but this reframing of killing as an act of kindness is self-deceiving and illogical, whether she truly believes that her baby is better off being dead or not. The abortion facility workers are supporting this delusion or rationalization.<\/p>\n