{"id":94581,"date":"2016-05-18T17:27:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=94581"},"modified":"2016-05-18T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T20:54:11","slug":"new-book-equates-killing-a-baby-with-removing-a-wisdom-tooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-book-equates-killing-a-baby-with-removing-a-wisdom-tooth\/","title":{"rendered":"New book equates killing a baby with removing a wisdom tooth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Sunday, Glamour published<\/a> an excerpt of feminist writer Lindy West\u2019s just-released book\u2014and of course, the part deemed most share-worthy is the story of West having an abortion, because pro-aborts just can’t get enough<\/a> of telling each other how brave they are for telling each other about their abortions.<\/p>\n

What the snippet lacks in originality, though, it more than makes up for in inadvertent examples of why abortion shouldn\u2019t be normalized.<\/p>\n

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So I did what I always did when I needed a common, legal, routine medical procedure\u2014I made an appointment to see my doctor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ever notice how common the phrase \u201ccommon, legal, routine medical procedure\u201d is? It\u2019s like a magic chant, meant to ward off evil spirits by imbuing abortion with unquestionable legitimacy.<\/p>\n

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[I was] wobbling on the edge of hysteria. Not for all the reasons the fanatics would like you to think: not because I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about my \u201cbaby\u2019s\u201d tiny fingernails but because I was alone and it was hard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Who are the real fanatics? Pro-lifers, or people who put scare quotes around a term that Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, WebMD, and US Department of Health and Human Services all use to describe fetuses<\/a>? People who reference destroying something that has \u201ctiny fingernails\u201d without batting an eye, or people with the crazy idea that having human characteristics might mean you\u2019re human?<\/p>\n

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I had to talk to a counselor, I guess to make sure I wasn\u2019t just looking for one of those partybortions that the religious right is always getting their sackcloth in a bunch over.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, let\u2019s keep on pretending it\u2019s all just a religious-motivated fuss and there are no secular reasons to be against\u00a0abortion<\/a>. Apparently packaging propaganda as personal experiences or perspectives exempts an author from having to be truthful.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the truth, pointing out that most abortions are sought<\/a> for reasons less dire than health isn’t even close to suggesting women get them for anything resembling parties. But since she brings it up, pro-lifers weren\u2019t the ones who suggested that having to buy new clothes<\/a>, traveling, being spontaneous, “pushing the boundaries of selfishness,” “drink[ing] as much moscato as I damn well please<\/a>,\u201d and getting nose jobs<\/a> were perfectly valid reasons for having abortions.<\/p>\n

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The doctor told me my embryo was about three weeks old, like a tadpole [\u2026]That night, after taking my first pill, as my tadpole detached from the uterine wall [\u2026]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Repeatedly calling your live, human son or daughter a \u201ctadpole\u201d doesn\u2019t change what he or she really was<\/a>.\u00a0As Micaiah Bilger at LifeNews notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[H]er unborn baby\u2019s heart probably was already beating. A baby\u2019s heart begins to beat 18 days from conception<\/a>, and by 21 days the heart is pumping blood through a closed circulatory system. Her baby already had his or her own unique DNA that made him or her different from any other living creature on the planet. That DNA already determined whether her baby was a girl or boy, what color eyes and hair they would have, and a whole list of other traits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

West continues:<\/p>\n

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The accompanying pamphlet warned that, after I took the second pill, chunks \u201cthe size of lemons\u201d night come out. LEMONS. Imagine if we, as a culture, actually talked frankly about abortion. Imagine if people seeking abortions didn\u2019t have to be blindsided by the possibility of blood lemons falling out of their vaginas via a pink flier. Imagine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what West is really imagining, because frank talk would also entail speaking uncomfortable truths like \u201cyour little boy or girl was real, and abortion killed him or her.\u201d Imagine, indeed.<\/p>\n

Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino describes in the video below what actually happens when a woman takes the abortion pill:<\/p>\n