Virginia Abortion Law Controversy: Pro-Choice Zealots Claim Moral Low Ground | National Review
The fight over a Virginia bill that would have legalized abortion past the point of fetal viability exposed the procedure’s most zealous fans for what they are.A bill proposed by Virginia state delegate Kathy Tran — ultimately voted down — would have made certain forms of baby killing legal. The proposed law would have reduced the number of doctors required to sign a baby’s death warrant and expanded the number of excuses for why a mother could choose at the last minute to ask for one. A video of Tran explaining how, under her bill, a fully developed baby could be terminated even during labor, ignited a burning controversy.The flames shed light on movements in other states, particularly New York and Rhode Island, to make abortion legal past the point of viability, meaning past the point where the baby could live independent of its mother.Virginia governor Ralph Northam threw gasoline on the fire when he defended the legislation clumsily (to put it charitably), making it sound like he believed a viable baby could be fully delivered before the doctor and mother decided whether it should be permitted to live.Many in the mainstream media — who often treat conservative reactions to an outrage as the “real” story rather than the outrageous thing itself — have been falling over each other to demonstrate how much more complicated and nuanced this issue is.And they have a point — or points. Tran now says she misspoke and acknowledged that the way she had described the law would have run afoul of anti-infanticide laws.
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Tran did not misspeak. She misjudged the virulent reaction to her horrendous admission that she has no problem with killing infants upon birth. The Governor, who has a serious racial problem in addition to his abominable lack of respect for human life made in the image of God, was being careful not to offend and even to impress his audience of evil, who think abortion at any time is to be promoted. If this is not dealt with severely and immediately by the political powers in both major parties, it will be assumed to be the new norm on the moral scale in this country. We cannot let the Catholics carry the ball alone on this fight. Speak up and speak out. We must defend righteousness as the standard or face the national judgment we will deserve.