{"id":53229,"date":"2014-09-06T16:21:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=53229"},"modified":"2014-09-07T00:16:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T04:16:51","slug":"the-infanticide-in-the-giver-was-an-abortion-as-far-as-planned-parenthood-is-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/the-infanticide-in-the-giver-was-an-abortion-as-far-as-planned-parenthood-is-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"The infanticide in “The Giver” was an abortion, as far as Planned Parenthood is concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-life advocates have widely celebrated the new film,\u00a0The Giver,<\/em> a screen adaptation of the novel by Lois Lowry. An overview of the plot and more in-depth examination of the pro-life themes in the film can be found here<\/a>. In the film, a turning point for the main character comes when he begins\u00a0to understand that infanticide is regularly practiced within his community. At one point, he witnesses one of these killings, which certain care-giving members of the community had been trained to carry out. The book <\/a>describes the scene as follows (and the film\u00a0was true to this depiction):<\/p>\n

To his surprise, his father began very carefully to direct the needle into the top of the new child’s forehead, puncturing the place where the fragile skin pulsed. The newborn squirmed, and wailed faintly. \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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Still in the special voice, his father was saying, “I know, I know. It hurts, little guy. But I have to use a vein, and the veins in your arm are still too teeny-weeny.”<\/em><\/p>\n

He pushed the plunger very slowly, injecting the liquid into the scalp vein until the syringe was empty.<\/em><\/p>\n

“All done. That wasn’t so bad, was it?” Jonas heard his father say cheerfully.<\/em><\/p>\n

A recent piece on Vox<\/em><\/a> insisted that this infanticide is\u00a0not the same as<\/em>\u00a0abortion. The trouble is, Planned Parenthood<\/a>, abortionist Kermit Gosnell<\/a>, and abortionist Douglas Karpen<\/a> all seem to think that it is. Last year, Planned Parenthood\u00a0spokeswoman Alisa LaPolt Snow had this to say <\/a>about infanticide following a failed abortion:<\/p>\n

We believe that any decision that’s made [about infanticide] should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n