Posted on 04/13/2019 10:31:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
A pro-choice student at Boston College is in the news this week for repeatedly claiming that a baby born after a failed abortion is “not a baby.”
The student made the claim during an exchange with Kristan Hawkins, a pro-life advocate and president of Students for Life of America, during a sold-out stop on Hawkins’ “Lies Feminists Tell” university tour. Hawkins later wrote about the uncomfortable exchange on Twitter.
"There is an abortion crisis of one million killings a year, and it all starts with dehumanizing the unborn," Hawkins tweeted, referring to the heated encounter that occurred between her and the student during the Q and A portion of the event.
The pro-life speaker had been invited to the university by the Boston College Pro-Life Club. During the exchange with the pro-choice student, Hawkins compared the humanity of a child at the U.S.-Mexico border to the humanity of a preborn baby within the walls of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.
“Do you think that children that are apprehended at the border that are in U.S. government care…do you think babies who are going to die should be resuscitated and given care?” Hawkins asked, in reference to children at the border.
"Yes," the student replied.
“Okay. Do you believe that a baby who is born alive during an abortion at Planned Parenthood should get care?” Hawkins followed up.
The student replied, "No."
That’s when Hawkins paused and asked: "What's the difference?"
When Hawkins asked again why the child who survives a botched abortion is not a child, the student doubled down.
“Because they’re performing an abortion,” the student argued. “So, before that, they’ve already determined that it’s not a baby. I know you’re telling me that science has determined one thing, but…”
As the exchange grew increasingly heated another student appeared to want to support the pro-choice student on the other end of Hawkins' questioning, when they both admitted that a baby surviving an abortion is a rare circumstance.
"It is rare but it does happen because a group of abortion survivors were just at the White House," Hawkins responded, but the student insisted yet again that in her mind, an abortion survivor is not a child.
Hawkins also described a third-trimester abortion to the student, explaining that during the procedure, the abortionist injects the nearly full-term, unborn baby with digoxin to induce cardiac arrest so that the baby is delivered dead.
“So this baby comes out of utero,” Hawkins said, “and the digoxin hasn’t been successful in inducing cardiac arrest, and this baby is alive … so, do you think it’s a baby?”
“No,” insisted the student.
Hawkins continued to press, asking the pro-choice student to explain how exactly an abortionist “can determine it’s not a baby.”
The pro-choice student stood her ground, but failed to explain how an infant born alive after a botched abortion is not, in fact, a baby.
Hawkins is no stranger, however, to these sorts of conversations.
“This is the second year of my ‘Lies Feminists Tell’ speaking tour – where I expose the truth behind the self-proclaimed feminists’ lies about abortion, like ‘abortion doesn’t harm women’ and ‘women need abortion to be equal,’” Hawkins wrote in an email to supporters.
How about this? A Feminist is not an actual person
They think they can change reality by playing with words.
That student is seriously botched.
“They think they can change reality by playing with words”
So does half the Supreme Court.
They want to be able to legally murder someone that is inconvenient to them personally.
They dont want to lose that power because they literally get to play god.
If they want it, its a baby. If they dont want it its not a baby.
Logical and legal inconsistency as neither is based on individual subjectivity. We do that, we have no logic and no law and its back to chaos.
A tail is a leg...
Ghouls!
whollycarp these people are evil!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One can only imagine the tortured “logic” she had to use to come up with THAT level of idiocy.
But the leftists are science-deniers.
Boston College?????????? Not a college only an institution.
I have a close friend who is the child of a violent rape. She will talk to you all day about abortion.
She has a very unique and strong held Christian conservative view. And its not from her mother, father or baby daddy.
I heard an argument between two Christians, one was arguing that a person born cesarean cannot be saved because according to his interpretation of the Biblical verse “unless you are born of water” you cannot be saved. I kid you not.
There is nothing feminine about radical feminists.
“Do you think that children that are apprehended at the border that are in U.S. government care…do you think babies who are going to die should be resuscitated and given care?” Hawkins asked, in reference to children at the border.
"Yes," the student replied.
“Okay. Do you believe that a baby who is born alive during an abortion at Planned Parenthood should get care?” Hawkins followed up.
The student replied, "No."
Thanks Kaslin.
“One can only imagine the tortured “logic”...”
Beyond “tortured” and anything but “logic”.
Using the same distorted rational, a person who survived an abortion procedure was never considered a human baby so therefor can be murdered with no legal consequences as they can never be considered a human adult....follows right?
So a person’s humanity is based solely on the wishes of the “mother”?
Here’s Ashley Judd’s newest excuse!
She had her abortion because she was raped ( she says) and she didn’t want the ‘rapist’ to get custody of the child
Here's one that comes close, though: people (I have run into several) who say that killing somebody by strangulation, poisoning, or other non-bleeding means is not murder, since Scripture specified murder as the shedding of innocent blood.
Kinda refutes Scriptural "perspicuity": the doctrine that the Scriptures of themselves are clear enough in their meaning for the ordinary unaided reader to know with moral certainty what to believe and how to act.
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