{"id":36353,"date":"2013-06-10T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=36353"},"modified":"2013-06-12T03:53:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T07:53:33","slug":"what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/","title":{"rendered":"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>

The “Beatriz” story has gotten extensive coverage, both here<\/a> and elsewhere – to the point where the details almost don’t need to be recapitulated here.<\/p>\n

But that “almost” is important; the details do <\/i>need to be recapitulated, because abortion proponents have decided that the facts behind Beatriz’s pregnancy and delivery are devastating to their case<\/a>. As we’ve come to expect from pro-aborts, this calls for a concentrated assault on the whole concept of “words mean things” \u2013 which, in a case as cut and dried as Beatriz’s, has resulted in an excellent impetus for zombie George Orwell to thrust his moldering hand through the earth in a macabre thumbs-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reliably insane RH Reality Check provides the blueprint for pro-aborts’ facepalm-worthy blurring of words and concepts vis-\u00e0-vis Beatriz. In a piece of stunning logical galumphing<\/a>, the benighted Jodi Jacobson condemns pro-life “linguistic gymnastics,” categorically states that “a hysterotomy is an abortion,” and then proceeds to plug her ears and yell. Abortion-obsessed blog Care2 followed suit<\/a> with “El Salvador Says an Abortion isn’t an Abortion to Make Themselves Feel Better,” a headline spectacularly replete with both bizarre title capitalization and an aneurysm-inducing pronoun-antecedent relationship.<\/p>\n

Now, pro-aborts love this “blurring” tactic, though they rarely use it this brazenly. Previous popular iterations include redefining “reproductive rights” to include deliberately destroying<\/a> the reproductive process<\/a>, whereupon everyone hops on the kill-your-children bandwagon (…right?).<\/p>\n

So in this<\/i> iteration, Jodi Jacobson assumes that every hysterotomy is an abortion. (If this were true, the term “hysterotomy abortion<\/a>” would be redundant, and all-knowing Wikipedia would redirect it to “hysterotomy<\/a>.”) From there she overlooks the fact that every <\/i>C-section \u2013 the procedure by which Beatriz’s baby was delivered \u2013 requires a hysterotomy (i.e., an incision into the uterus). So we’re blurring “hysterotomy” to mean “abortion,” and presto: everyone will have to agree that El Salvador sanctioned abortion.<\/p>\n

Never mind that the reasoning implied by this uniquely pro-abort synechdoche<\/a> could just as effectively defend the harmless act of consuming poppies<\/a>. Also, I have officially redefined my thrice-weekly ice cream binges as “therapeutic dairy for the purposes of gradual body modification in an indeterminate direction.”<\/p>\n

But let’s interrupt the International Pro-Abortion Linguistic Olympics for a second and get down to first principles. If you deep-six the appeals to emotion and nix the buzzwords, it takes just one simple question to get to the heart of the “choice” pro-aborts relentlessly champion. Namely, what does an abortion do?<\/i><\/p>\n

The point of Beatriz’s C-section \u2013 which, recall, included a hysterotomy as one of its parts \u2013 was to end her pregnancy. Sure. But there are at least a few ways to accomplish that. Think Jodi Jacobson would care to guess what by far<\/i> the most common one (unless you’re in New York<\/a>) is?<\/p>\n

I’ll spell it out: an abortion kills a human being. When it doesn’t, it’s called a “failed abortion,” or an “abortion attempt,” and abortionists start flipping out<\/a> about finishing<\/a> the job<\/a>. For more on that, consult our Inhuman<\/i> investigation<\/a>, or ask Melissa Ohden<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So if Jacobson wants, as many pro-aborts do, to blur “kills a human being” to “terminates a pregnancy,” as she’s done with “hysterotomy” to “abortion,” then she’s going to have to admit that every live delivery of a baby is an abortion<\/i>. Finally, a rebuttal to Ronald Reagan<\/a>‘s devastating pro-life quip!<\/p>\n

Next to “I love abortion<\/a>,” “an abortion by any other name” is among pro-aborts’ most pathetic and execrable attempts to normalize a barbaric practice. So why on Earth would anyone resort to this painfully weak line of reasoning?<\/p>\n

The answer is because abortion advocates have really stepped in it this time, and this is the best backpedaling available. See, pro-aborts spent the weeks up to Beatriz’s operation keening<\/a> that Beatriz would die<\/a> if she didn’t get an abortion. Even as El Salvador’s Institute of Legal Medicine insisted<\/a> that “[a]t this time, [Beatriz] is clinically stable, which means that right now there is no imminent risk of danger of death,” pro-aborts doubled down on “Beatriz will die,” in huge neon capital letters.<\/p>\n

Well, El Salvador refused Beatriz the abortion. Her baby perished a few hours after delivery, having received the best care the doctors could give her. And Beatriz herself is stable.<\/p>\n

This puts abortion advocates in a tough place: they screamed for days that the sky is falling, and now the world is shrugging at the rain. Solution: they either go all in on this ridiculous “everything is abortion” defense…or they admit their disappointment that Beatriz, unlike Savita<\/a> before her, didn’t die.<\/p>\n

Granted, pro-aborts had to lie like crazy<\/a> to make Savita fit their narrative, but at least the “woman dies from being denied an abortion” framework was there to exploit. But when “woman lives <\/i>after being denied an abortion, despite hysterical doomsaying by abortion-pushers in other countries”? Forget about it.<\/p>\n

And that’s why we all have to endure this tear-your-hair-out, Munch-grade<\/a> idiocy about emergency C-sections being abortions. Because as stupid as it sounds, it’s worlds better for pro-abort messaging than complaining that Beatriz was supposed to kick the bucket for the cause.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Per RealChoice<\/a>, it turns out that all of the above underestimates<\/em> pro-abort mendacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How disappointed the pro-abortion movement is, and why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED) - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED) - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How disappointed the pro-abortion movement is, and why.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-06-10T14:00:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-06-12T07:53:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/march_group_photo_og-1-700x467.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"467\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Drew Belsky\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Drew Belsky\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Drew Belsky\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b987cbef23e22c25a97a9d732e7c44b1\"},\"headline\":\"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED)\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-06-10T14:00:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-06-12T07:53:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\"},\"wordCount\":866,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Analysis\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\",\"name\":\"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED) - Live Action News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-06-10T14:00:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-06-12T07:53:33+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"name\":\"Live Action News\",\"description\":\"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Live Action\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png\",\"width\":701,\"height\":710,\"caption\":\"Live Action\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b987cbef23e22c25a97a9d732e7c44b1\",\"name\":\"Drew Belsky\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2d4c313f9049ccec2f67b9e820dbc8b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2d4c313f9049ccec2f67b9e820dbc8b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Drew Belsky\"},\"description\":\"Drew Belsky can be reached on Twitter at @DJB627.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/drew-belsky\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED) - Live Action News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED) - Live Action News","og_description":"How disappointed the pro-abortion movement is, and why.","og_url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/","og_site_name":"Live Action News","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","article_published_time":"2013-06-10T14:00:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-06-12T07:53:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":467,"url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/march_group_photo_og-1-700x467.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Drew Belsky","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@liveaction","twitter_site":"@liveaction","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Drew Belsky","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/"},"author":{"name":"Drew Belsky","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b987cbef23e22c25a97a9d732e7c44b1"},"headline":"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED)","datePublished":"2013-06-10T14:00:09+00:00","dateModified":"2013-06-12T07:53:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/"},"wordCount":866,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Analysis"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/","name":"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED) - Live Action News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-06-10T14:00:09+00:00","dateModified":"2013-06-12T07:53:33+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/what-else-is-there-to-say-about-beatriz\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"What Else Is There to Say about Beatriz? (UPDATED)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","name":"Live Action News","description":"Covering Human Rights, Abortion, & Pro-Life Issues","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization","name":"Live Action","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Live-Action-Logo-Black.png","width":701,"height":710,"caption":"Live Action"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/twitter.com\/liveaction","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/liveactionorg\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/LiveActionFilms\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/LiveActionFilms"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/b987cbef23e22c25a97a9d732e7c44b1","name":"Drew Belsky","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2d4c313f9049ccec2f67b9e820dbc8b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2d4c313f9049ccec2f67b9e820dbc8b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Drew Belsky"},"description":"Drew Belsky can be reached on Twitter at @DJB627.","url":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/author\/drew-belsky\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}