yes it is. and then pushing the "abortion is just like slavery" nonsense.
Did I not accurately record Northam's words?
“If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”
He said, "infant" not "product of conception," not "fetus." He said, "delivered" not "aborted in the womb." He is talking about a child outside the womb.
And in the run up to that quote, he said, 3rd trimester abortions happen when a fetus is severely deformed or nonviable, distinguishing between the two. A baby born with no legs is severely deformed, but is probably viable. Nonviable infants probably do not need to be resuscitated. They are nonviable. That is tragic and sad, but not unheard of. And Northam did not say how long the period would be in which the doctor and parents would be allowed to discuss whether to keep their child alive or not. An hour? A week? Six months? My father, in a letter to the editor of the local paper echoed Prof. Pete Singer's opinion that infanticide should be allowed up to six months. "They are not self-aware" my father wrote. He was just following the logic.
And he referenced Delegate Tran's bill. If 3rd trimester abortion would only be allowed in cases in which the fetus is severely deformed or nonviable, why did her bill not restrict itself to those cases?
Tran's bill would not have been restricted to severely or nonviable deformed babies.
Del. Kathy Tran is wrong saying bill wouldn't change late-term abortion laws
Virginia allows third-trimester abortions in hospitals if three physicians certify that a continued pregnancy would "likely" kill the woman or "substantially and irremediably" impair her mental or physical health. Tran’s bill would have lowered the authorization from three physicians to one. That doctor would only have to certify that the pregnancy would damage a woman’s health. The "substantial and irremediable" threshold would have been repealed.... Tran’s bill would have lowered the requirements to one physician certifying that the pregnancy would damage the woman’s mental or physical health - the "substantial and irremediable" test would have been repealed.
I did not say that "abortion is just like slavery" (I think its worse). I wondered whether in the future, today's abortion advocates would be morally condemned in a way similar to the way we today morally condemn advocates of slavery 150 years ago.
