Wednesday, February 27, 2019

The Japanese Get it Done


This morning the BBC reported about a Japanese baby boy who was born premature by emergency C-section at 24 weeks. Weighing in at a little over half a pound at birth, he was discharged home at a weight of seven pounds after being cared for in the hospital for five months.

He was the smallest infant born to ever be discharged from a hospital.


Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47382058


This demonstrates that we have the medicine and science to keep a baby alive who is born as young as six months.

Last Monday, meanwhile, the U.S. Senate voted (Cf. Sasse’s bill S. 311) against protecting babies born alive following failed abortions (Cf. infanticide).


Source: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-senate-votes-53-44-to-end-infanticide-of-born-alive-babies-but-fai


The wording of the bill was, “If an abortion results in the live birth of an infant, the infant is a legal person for all purposes under the laws of the United States, and entitled to all the protections of such laws.”


So, we have the knowledge and the means to save a baby who survives an abortion. We just don’t want to. Clearly the defect is in the will and in the intention, not in the understanding, the medicine, or the science.