Good News for Children

The U.S. Supreme Court today decided in a close 5:4 vote that the U.S. Congress actually did have the power to outlaw a particularly-heinous method of performing a late-term abortion.

What upsets me about that particular method of killing a baby is that it is a grotesque parody of actual birth, done on a child far enough along in its development that if the doctor stopped then, the baby might live. Instead, what I, the U.S. Congress, and now the U.S. Supreme Court consider murder is then committed by poking an instrument into the infant's head and sucking out its brain.

This strikes me as being much the same sin as cooking a baby animal in its mother's milk, in that what is intended to nourish and protect is instead used to destroy.

If anyone advocated doing the same to unborn animals, P.E.T.A. would do almost anything to avoid such a horrid violation of animal rights.

And how could an almost fully developed human baby not feel pain during such a process?

Here's my previous comment on this particular method of late-term abortion: "I can't imagine how any moral person can support a form of abortion that intentionally murders an almost-fully-developed infant, merely to ensure the child doesn't enter the world alive."

More of my previous thinking on abortion issues is here.