{"id":203027,"date":"2019-05-26T14:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=203027"},"modified":"2019-05-25T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T19:46:50","slug":"abortion-pro-lifers-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pro-lifers-extreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Media paints pro-life laws as extreme, shrugs at legalized abortion to birth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As more states pass heartbeat bills<\/a>, the abortion industry insists such legislation is \u201cextreme.\u201d Even the mainstream media have portrayed strongly pro-life laws like Heartbeat Bills and Alabama\u2019s recent abortion ban as extreme. But the reality is that most people are pro-life once they learn the truth about abortion<\/a>, despite what abortion advocates otherwise claim.<\/p>\n

CNN recently tweeted<\/a> that the Alabama law is \u201cstrict enough to rival abortion rules in countries like Brunei, Guatemala and Syria,\u201d implying that the law is extreme and retrograde. Notably, there was no CNN analysis of how New York\u2019s abortion bill<\/a>, which allows for the killing of preborn babies for virtually any reason up to birth, compares to countries around the world.<\/p>\n

While there is some disagreement among pro-lifers about the effectiveness of the legal strategy<\/a> behind heartbeat bills, the principles of the bills are not extreme. The pro-life position, like any position, requires consistency. If the preborn child with a beating heart is a human being — which she is<\/em> — then that person should be protected by our laws from being killed violently. This includes babies conceived in rape and incest, because the circumstances of their conception do not in any way diminish their human dignity.<\/p>\n

READ: Author claims Americans would support federal law protecting abortion. She\u2019s wrong.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are circumstances in which the life and health of the mother may be threatened by complications in pregnancy. The Alabama law, for example, includes an exception for this rare circumstance, when the mother\u2019s life is in jeopardy. Yet, as Dr. Anthony Levatino explains, life-threatening emergencies late in pregnancy are addressed by delivering the living child prematurely, rather than deliberately poisoning a living child in the womb and delivering a dead baby after a days-long procedure.<\/p>\n