As many of you are probably aware, or at least should
be, Democrats have long possessed the notion that a fetus is not actually a
human being until after it has been able to successfully navigate it’s exit from
it’s mother’s womb, with, of course, no shortage of assistance from his or her
mother. And even then, there seems to be
some level of doubt among them that even within minutes of making that
previously mentioned exit, he or she does not yet fit the definition of being a
living, breathing human life, and is therefore eligible to be terminated.
Which brings me, of course, to none other than Steny
Hoyer, Democrat from the People’s Republic of Maryland and the principle character
in this continuing series which I refer to as, ‘The Gasbag Chronicles.’ You see, it was old Steny that was recently
asked whether an unborn child at 20 weeks after conception is actually a human
being. Steny, as to be expected,
couldn’t quite bring himself to directly answer the yes-no question, choosing
instead to say that “this is not a real issue.”
I guess I’m just not understanding the liberal logic here.
Hoyer was asked the question at a press event that
followed Barry “Almighty’s” idiotic State of the Union at the Capitol on
Tuesday evening. He was asked, “Do you
believe that an unborn child is a human being at 20 weeks after
conception?” To which he responded,
“Look, what I bel--first of all, a very, very few number of abortions are done
after 20 weeks. And then, almost exclusively for health reasons of the mother.
So I think this is not a real issue.”
Who but a left-wing-nut-of-a-Democrat would think the life of a human fetus
is not a real issue?
And it was then that old Steny went on to say,
“However, having said that, I have long supported the ability of a mom--or the
prospective mom--and her doctor, and her family to make what is a very
difficult decision. And I don’t think that there are any women who at 20 weeks
are looking for an elective abortion."
Hoyer was asked the question again via email through Hoyer’s
congressional press office on Wednesday and there was also an attempt to get an
answer through Hoyer’s office on Thursday. The office was unable to answer this
relatively simple question.
And it was also just this week that the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released what they referred to as being a
“cost estimate” on the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would
prohibit abortions in the 20th week or later in pregnancy, except in cases of
rape, incest or when the mother’s life is at risk. The CBO estimate calculated that the bill
would prevent about 2,500 babies per year from being aborted—out of the 10,000
per year that CBO estimates are aborted each year in the 20th week of pregnancy
or later.
It was in this “cost estimate” that CBO said, “Based
on data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CBO
estimates that, each year, about 10,000 abortions take place 20 weeks or more
after fertilization. Now according to
the most recent abortion surveillance report by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), there were 7,325 babies aborted at or after 21 weeks
gestation during 2011 in the 37 states and the District of Columbia that report
abortions by gestational age to the CDC.
The CDC reported that another 9,709 babies were
aborted in those 37 states and the District of Columbia at 18 through 20 weeks
after conception. The thirteen states
that did not report abortions by gestational age included California,
Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. It is not known how many babies were aborted
in those states at 21 weeks or later into pregnancy. I think in the very liberal of these states
we can assume the number could be quite high.
So there you have it. Who among us would have ever thought that this
nation would one day get to the point where we would have a political party willing
to enthusiastically support the excuse that a fetus, whether after one week or
9 months, is not a human being in order to justify the killing of hundreds of
thousands of babies under the guise of protecting what they refer to as being a
woman’s reproductive right. Is that not one
the sickest most and twisted things you’ve ever heard? And it’s people like old Steny Hoyer who are
members of that political party, the Democrat Party.
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