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Let's Be Honest

Let's be honest, and I mean that sincerely.

I have friends and extended family members that believe it is important that abortion should be a woman's choice and that it should remain safe, legal and accessible.

There are those who argue for abortion rights on the basis that it is a human right and must necessarily be protected in order to achieve gender equality worldwide.

I disagree...completely. I want to be honest about why I disagree with my family and friends who support a woman's right to have access to safe and legal abortion.

Abortion is the act of killing a baby while in the mother's womb. In some cases, the baby is "partially born" before it is killed.

The recent videos filmed and provided by "The Center for Medical Progress" have left no doubt about the premise; abortion kills the baby while in the mother's womb. For it is upon this premise that the parts; hearts, livers, etc. and tissues of the dead baby can be sold, donated and offered to science for research. It must be a baby if the human organs and tissue will be of any use to those who are seeking to acquire them.

There has been and will be a good deal of obfuscation regarding how the videos were obtained. There has been and will be attempts to discredit the people releasing the videos. The political establishment will be falling all over themselves to defend a woman's right to choose or to register their shock at what they hear.

All of this distracts from the point; abortion kills a baby in the mother's womb.
Thanks to the recent videos and to the Kermit Gosnell  trial this is a settled matter.
What happens in a successful abortion procedure is that a living baby is killed in the mother's womb.
An abortion is unsuccessful (or "botched") if the baby is not killed in the mother's womb. If the one performing the abortion, albeit unsuccessfully, chooses to kill the baby moments after pulling him/her from the mother's womb, the abortionist may be charged with, (and perhaps found guilty of) murder.

Abortion kills babies in their mother's womb. Let's be honest about that. With this indisputable fact, let's weigh the words, "safe", "choice", "rights", "legal", "accessible", "human right" and "gender equality".

We may still disagree, but at least we will be starting at the same place; 55 million dead babies and counting.

PS If you want to read/watch more on this, let me recommend the following:

This blog post is much better written then mine. It would benefit you to read it.

This article was written by one who formerly supported abortion but does not any longer.

This is a 90 second dose of profound clarity.

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