Seeing that all the "shit for brains" threads have been deleted [[I guess) let's focus on the Religious right. Here in the Netherlands we've more and more turned into a secular nation. the church is far less a power like in America. The American religious right is a mirror image of the Taliban; they have the same urge to bring society back to the stone age.
Rallying against same sex marriage, abortion, euthanasia, all things they consider against the teachings of the Bible, and I might add also the Quran, but they fail to realize that...
Here's a very sad consequence from their war against Abortion. This made my eyes water.
And again, we see the fanatic’s absolute lack of empathy for the woman who was forced to bear a doomed child, and watch it die in agony.Nebraska’s new abortion law forced Danielle Deaver to live through ten excruciating days, waiting to give birth to a baby that she and her doctors knew would die minutes later, fighting for breath that would not come.
And that’s what happened. The one-pound, ten-ounce girl, Elizabeth, was born December 8th. Deaver and husband Robb watched, held and comforted the baby as it gasped for air, hoping she was not suffering. She died 15 minutes later.
The sponsor of the controversial Nebraska statute, Sen. Mike Flood of Norfolk, told the Des Moines Register that the law worked as it was intended in the Deavers’ case.
“Even in these situations where the baby has a terminal condition or there’s not much chance of surviving outside of the womb, my point has been and remains that is still a life,” Flood said in an interview with the Iowa newspaper.
The law, the only one of its kind in America, prohibits abortions after the 20th week. It is based on the disputed argument that a fetus may feel pain at that stage. It took effect last October.
“Our hands were tied,” Danielle Deaver of Grand Island told The Register in a story published Sunday. “The outcome of my pregnancy, that choice was made by God. I feel like how to handle the end of my pregnancy, that choice should have been mine, and it wasn’t because of a law.”
Jesus wept...Julie Schmit-Albin, who heads Nebraska Right to Life, told the AP in a Sunday interview that the tragic outcome was better than an abortion:
“We acknowledge the tragedy that occurs with a poor prenatal diagnosis for the baby. But isn’t it more humane for the baby to die in a loving manner with comfort care and in the arms of her parents than by the intentional painful death through abortion?”
Coincidentally yesterday Dutch scientist revealed a new method to see if a baby was suffering from a birth defect very early on. Previous methods meant that a puncture had to be made to find out if a child was having difficulties. And those methods sometimes lead to terminated pregnancies.
With the new method you can tell with a 100% certainty if a child is having Down syndrome. There is certainty on the condition of the child and a decision to terminate the pregnancy can be made between doctors and parents to be. Abortion is legal over here. It's even covered in insurance.
Over here you can decide yourself if you think your child is worth it living a life in agony and dependency. Bringing a child in need can be a very demanding task. Mind you, the decision to end a pregnancy is still not easy but at least you don't have to make the child suffer once it's born.
Via Littlegreenfootballs.
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