11 September 2010

"Dropping the Mask" by Timothy J.A. O'Donnell

Imagine performing an abortion while you are pregnant. Imagine your baby kicking inside your womb as you dismember the child in your patient's womb. Unthinkable? Or is it courageous?

Read this New York Times article for the grisly and shocking reality of two young female doctors that perform abortion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/magazine/18abortion-t.html

In what follows, you will read my letter to the editor of the NYT to this article.

Dear Editor:

Thank you for dropping the mask.


The New Abortion Providers gives ample evidence of how journalistic standards have been compromised. It is hardly surprising to find a NYT article careening portside, but the shallowness of thought and lack of balance is stunning. Lifting Terry Randall, a known crackpot, as the Pro-life figurehead and juxtaposing him with Tiller (considered by many as a killer and extremist) polarizes rather than clarifies the issues. Moral equivalency is on display; the number of abortionists killed without any reference to the millions of dead children – victims of abortion and a false choice - , the mothers who have severe spiritual, mental, and physical problems from abortion, or the violence against Pro-life supporters is a vacuous and misleading caricature of the facts and the principles involved.

Abortion is a ghastly industry that harms women, steals fatherhood, and kills children. In a recent change in strategy, exemplified in this article, the fact that the abortion industry is increasingly more explicit and direct about the aim of abortion: the killing of the child. Biology, embryology, philosophy, and theology all present strong reasonable arguments and evidence against abortion because it is a grave injustice to the children killed.

Ask the tough questions: What is the unborn? Is the unborn a member of the human family?

"If the unborn are not human, no justification for elective abortion in necessary. But if the unborn are human, no justification for elective abortion is adequate." (Koukl, Precious Unborn Human Persons, p. 7)

Note too that there is zero reference to the baby having intrinsic value, special dignity, an unrepeatable gift, and made in the image and likeness of God.

Sadly, the article makes clear the gruesome reality of abortion as dismembering a little person alive and vulnerable in their mother’s womb, yet they are ok with that.

The mask if off.