by Keyster
I realize most of the Manosphere is loath to discuss abortion because they’re either pro-choice or it’s a complicated moral issue, a “rat hole” they’d prefer to avoid, etc. This is regardless of Feminist Inc. putting at least 90% of their unlimited resources behind the “Women’s Reproductive Health Movement” (ie – abortion rights and govt funding). But I’m gonna go there anyway because the Kermit Gosnell case raises some conundrums and paradoxes that have me hopelessly flummoxed.
When a woman has an abortion the baby, fetus, zygote, fleshy parasitic mass – whatever you want to call it depending on your view of abortion – is unceremoniously sucked from the uterine wall and disposed of. This supposedly kills the “mass” as it’s support system for life is taken away, although it’s not clear how long it continues to live afterward, let’s assume it pretty much dies instantly…at least that’s what we’re told.
This takes us to the uncomfortable realm of the late term abortion provider such as Gosnell, where the fetus starts to resemble a human and can quite possibly live outside the womb as early as six months with premature neo-natal care. The late term abortion provider (meant for women who could never get around to aborting at 6 to 8 weeks of pregnancy), must then kill the human formed fetus or “baby” in utero to remain within the legal bounds of our country’s Supreme Court’s rulings on abortion or state law. Once the human formed “fleshy mass” is confirmed dead (or a “confirmed kill” in military parlance), it’s then within our legal bounds to abort or “still born” the baby.
Where Gosnell tripped up was that in at least several hundred late term abortions he performed the babies (typically black) were “delivered” alive, and he killed them by snipping their spines post facto. OH THE HORROR! This was probably easier and came with less risk to the “mother”, hence his very competitive pricing schedule. But at least he was more concerned for the health of the woman (even though one died in his care), which is all that really matters to the pro-abortion crowd. And this guy was no “back ally abortionist from the 1950′s”. It was an established “Women’s and Family Health Care Center” on a busy Philadelphia street corner in business since 1979.
So as long as the fetus is not a baby (as deemed by the pregnant woman or “mother”), and remains inside her body, regardless of trimester and within state law, it can be legally killed. But the second that fetus magically becomes a baby and is birthed live and outside the her body, it becomes an official human able to “walk you to the bus stop” and if you kill it while it lies their breathing and squirming, an official murder in the first degree. Of course the “clients” of Dr. Gosnell aren’t charged as accessories to murder either, even though they agreed to it and paid for it.
As Kermit Gosnell sits in a jail cell contemplating his actions, I wonder if he merely rationalized infanticide as another abortion “technique”, just pushing the boundries a little. I wonder if a moral society contemplates the line between abortion and infanticide that the Gosnell case presents. To give life or to take life. Her body her choice.
