{"id":96093,"date":"2016-06-14T19:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=96093"},"modified":"2016-06-15T08:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:06:53","slug":"buying-gun-getting-abortion-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/buying-gun-getting-abortion-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Why buying a gun and getting an abortion are not the same"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The terrorist attack at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on Sunday morning has fueled the fire of the anti-gun movement. While there is a very noticeable crisis of the heart in the United States, there is also an overwhelming fear of guns, and confusion about how those guns ended up in the hands of someone who had been on the FBI watch list. But now celebrities and others<\/a> are taking this moment to compare purchasing a gun to getting an abortion.<\/p>\n

Nev Schulman, photographer and host of MTV’s Catfish posted this on his Facebook page after the attack:<\/p>\n

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Similar posts have been floating around the web on Twitter and Facebook of people comparing buying a gun to getting an abortion. Except there really is no comparison.<\/p>\n

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  1. When a woman gets an abortion there is a definite and purposeful ending of a human life \u2013 each and every time. Whereas, in most cases when a person with no criminal record goes to buy a gun, there is no deliberate intent to harm another human being. \u00a0In going to get an abortion, it is\u00a0guaranteed that at least one person will die. In going to get a gun, it is\u00a0most likely that not a single person will die.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. If we knew that every young man who wanted\u00a0to buy a gun was going to use it to purposefully kill another human being, then we would NEVER make him wait 48 hours. He would not need parental permission. He would not need a note from his doctor. He would not need to watch a video on gun violence. And he would definitely not need an ultrasound. Why? Because we would already know he\u2019s going to kill someone so he would be stopped from walking out of that gun store. He certainly wouldn’t be given information on guns and then sent free to go do the killing. But that\u2019s exactly what happens with abortion. Women are given information and time to think about their decision to abort. Yet even after a woman goes through all of those steps she is STILL allowed to go through with ending the life of her child. No one stops her. Could you imagine if that\u2019s how it went with guns? What if the authorities said, \u201cWe know that you are about to go slaughter people, or one person, with this weapon but we\u2019ve made you wait 48 hours and we\u2019ve shown you a video of what a gun can do, so now you have full knowledge of the violence and loss of life you are about to partake in. Have a nice day\u201d? \u00a0Obviously there should be restrictions and requirements for purchasing a gun. But if the authorities knew what a gun buyer was going to do \u2013 he wouldn\u2019t be given information \u2013 he\u2019d be stopped. The life of his intended target would be saved. Unfortunately, preborn humans don\u2019t get that help. Their mothers still get to target and kill them in the end.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. If that one woman is an abortionist, then yes, she actually is<\/em> killing a room full of people in one day. And all of the women having abortions today combine to make a total of more than 2,600<\/a> abortions every single day in the United States – that’s a lot more than your average “room full.” That’s 52 times the amount of people viciously murdered in Orlando on Sunday. 52 TIMES. And it\u2019s violent, bloody, horrible, unfair, and heartbreaking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        What it comes down to is that you can\u2019t protest guns and support abortion at the same time. You can’t be anti-violence and pro-choice unless you have no clue what abortion entails (or you\u2019re the abortionist making the big bucks off of those deaths).<\/p>\n

        There is nothing about abortion that is non-violent.<\/p>\n

        A typical first trimester abortion is done on babies as old as 13 weeks, just like these pictured here:<\/p>\n

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        7 weeks. Real human here.<\/p><\/div>\n

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        Annabelle at 8 weeks, 5 days – a common age for Planned Parenthood’s abortions.<\/p><\/div>\n

        One of the abortion methods used on these children is a like form of torture you might have heard of in a distant time or place. Called an aspiration or D&C abortion, a suction machine with a force 10-20x as strong as your household vacuum, suctions the baby out, ripping him or her apart limb by limb.<\/p>\n

        You can learn more about this procedure directly from a former abortionist in this video:<\/p>\n