Mike Pence Column: Life Is Under Attack. Look at how far the Democratic party has fallen.

National Review ^ | 01/31/2019 | Vice President Mike Pence

[SeekAndFind]

This week, a delegate to the Virginia state legislature introduced a bill affirming abortion up to the moment of birth. In shocking testimony, the delegate admitted that even when it was obvious that a child was about to be born — in the 40th week of a pregnancy, even in the midst of active labor — this proposed law would allow for the child to be aborted, so long as a single doctor approves.

Governor Ralph Northam, a supporter of the bill, went even further in a radio interview the next day. He tried to reassure its opponents that if a child survived an abortion, “the infant would be kept comfortable. [And] the infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue.”

There’s another word for this: infanticide. And it is morally reprehensible and evil.

Virginia’s bill comes just a week after the New York state senate was filled with cheers following the passage of a similar law. Governor Andrew Cuomo declared it “a historic victory for . . . our progressive values” and directed pink lights to shine on landmarks throughout the state, including One World Trade Center.

This shameless embrace of a culture of death is startling to every American who cherishes life. Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s stated position was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” It was this widespread rejection of late-term abortion that led a large bipartisan majority in Congress to pass the partial-birth-abortion ban in 2003. But now look at how far the Democratic party has fallen.

To support, let alone cheer, late-term abortions not only marks a disturbing step backward by so-called “progressives” — it also violates every demand of human decency. As modern science has moved the point of viability ever earlier in pregnancy, most Americans have agreed that a child who can survive outside the womb deserves a chance at life. Only a handful of countries, including China and North Korea, allow late-term abortions.

Until we heard those cheers coming from Albany and the defense of the indefensible over the airwaves in Virginia, we thought states were moving beyond such barbaric practices.

These Virginia and New York late-term abortion bills should be a call to action for all Americans. A society can be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable, and it would be unconscionable for us to let this moment pass in silence. We must recommit ourselves, today and every day, to restoring the sanctity of life to the center of American law.

For my part, I couldn’t be more proud to serve as vice president to the most pro-life president in American history. From his first week in office, President Trump has been a tireless champion of life. He reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, ensuring that our foreign-aid dollars don’t go to groups that promote or perform abortions abroad. He withdrew the United States from the United Nations Population Fund to prevent our tax dollars from supporting forced sterilization and abortion overseas. And he signed a law to empower states to withhold federal funding from abortion providers — and defund Planned Parenthood.

But the commitment to life extends further than our administration. Beyond the White House, state leaders are taking action to protect the unborn. They are encouraging parents to choose life by requiring brief waiting periods, setting ultrasound and other informed-consent standards, and prohibiting abortions based solely on a child’s sex, race, or disability — a measure I was proud to sign into law as governor of Indiana.

And thanks to the efforts of millions of compassionate and caring Americans across the country, we are changing minds and turning hearts to embrace life as never before. Fewer abortions are being performed than ever recorded — a decrease of more than 50 percent since the 1980s. This is a true cause for celebration.

So even in this dark moment in our nation’s history, Americans should take heart. The New York and Virginia bills aren’t some bold departure into a brave new world. They are the last gasp of a dying movement that stands in stark and irreconcilable contrast with our nation’s timeless founding principles.

After all, at the base of the same One World Trade Center that was bathed in pink last week to mark the passage of New York’s law, is the September 11th memorial. There, the names of all who died in the horrific terrorist attacks 18 years ago are etched in stone — including the eleven unborn children we lost along with their expectant mothers.

Our commitment to the unalienable right to life is as sure as the stone in which those names are etched. And our administration, and our movement, will continue to fight until our nation once again recognizes and celebrates the sanctity of all human life.

[Ann Archy]

ALL DEMOCRATS ARE VILE, EVIL DISGUSTING DESTROYERS of GOOD PEOPLE and INNOCENT BABIES!

[Rummyfan]

VP Pence is right. The Dems are the party of death, modern day worshippers of Moloch. The Aztecs and Mayans would be ashamed of such conduct.

[wally_bert]

VP is 100 percent correct.

[rlmorel]

"...This week, a delegate to the Virginia state legislature introduced a bill affirming abortion up to the moment of birth..."

The Virginia Governor seems to think the baby can be "aborted" even it has already been born healthy (from Allie Struckie's TownHall article:

"...In fact, Virginia governor Ralph Northam explained clearly that this abortion bill would indeed allow doctors to kill the child after birth. In a radio interview, Gov. Northam said: “If a mother is in labor. . .the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

[miss marmelstein]

NR allows a member of the Trump administration to speak???!!

[frank ballenger]

ALL DEMOCRATS ARE VILE, EVIL DISGUSTING DESTROYERS of GOOD PEOPLE and INNOCENT BABIES!
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True!

As Freeper Mrs.Don-o sent to me once:

Those who are kind to the cruel,
in the end will be cruel to the kind.
(from the Talmud).

I no longer tolerate and try to understand the leftists.
If siding with the babies is restrictive of the freedom of the feminist mothers , then too bad.

[refreshed]

Killing babies legally since 1973. Was there ever any doubt breaching the cervix was an artificial and temporary barrier to infanticide? I feel as if the restraint of the Holy Spirit’s presence is lifting off our land. I suspected conservative ambivalence to social issues would hasten this. Be prepared for judgment. Are you ready? Have you received Christ?

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12: Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

[Buckeye McFrog]

The Kavanaugh hearings have triggered them in very ugly ways.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Since federal law bans late term or partial birth abortion, how can states pass laws allowing for same????

The partial birth abortion law was upheld by the Supreme Court.

So considering all of this, how can states ass such laws??

[I want the USA back]

He’s right.

It’s completely against human nature to murder babies. The democrat party is the denial of human nature.

[SeekAndFind]

Here’s the problem as I see it today — EVEN IF WE OVERTURNED ROE vs WADE, what does it do?

Conservatives have been arguing that we have to leave it up to the states. Well there you go — NY and Virginia are but two of the states that have/will allow the killing of infants up tot he moment of birth ( in the case of Virginia, the governor, a Doctor, even discussed about leaving a baby to die AFTER birth if the mother decides that she does not what the baby ).

Overturning Roe vs Wade only gives power to the states to continue this abomination.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: NR allows a member of the Trump administration to speak???!!

If you have been reading them for a while, NR allows BOTH anti and pro Trumpers to speaks.

[Terry Mross]

Lots of women end up regretting getting an abortion. Murdering their babies will lead many to suicide. I weep for the child. Not for a mother who kills that child then kills herself.

[tuffydoodle]

Partial birth abortion was as the name implies, the babies are partially out, then killed by the doctor using a sharp pair of scissors into the skull. In order to get around a law banning partial birth abortions, they are now killing the baby while still in the womb. A large needle of some kind of poison is inserted into the baby while still in utero to kill him or her, then delivery of a dead baby.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Lots of women end up regretting getting an abortion. Murdering their babies will lead many to suicide

There already is a solution that for some strange reason nobody bothers to talk about -— ADOPTION.

Even as we speak, there are 2 million couples in America waiting to adopt a baby. There are as many as 36 couples waiting for every one child who is placed for adoption.

See here:

https://www.americanadoptions.com/pregnant/waiting_adoptive_families

and here:

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/05/17/why-do-more-people-choose-abortion-over-adoption/

[HangnJudge]

..Those who are kind to the cruel,
in the end will be cruel to the kind.

Qohelet Raba, 7:16

כל מי שנעשה רחמן במקום אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel
In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate

[Bob434]

In NY- the left just signed a ‘last second abortion bill’ they also want assisted suicide, and also are banning teachers from having guns in schools in an obvious nod to criminals- putting all those kids that survive abortions and actually make it to school at great risk- they also bar law abiding citizens from owning effective self defense guns and ammo clips-

Yes- Liberals in NY are an obvious ‘death culture society’ with a fetish for endangering life- and protecting criminals who take life-

[Terry Mross]

Sounds like all mothers will make the choice after the babies are born and must tell the doctor whether or not to make the baby breath or to remove an umbilical cord wrapped around the baby’s neck? “Ma’am, do you want this baby to die? It’s your CHOICE.”

I don’t see how any doctor can square this with the hypocratic oath.

[laweeks]

Have these bastards ever heard of orphanages . . . . ones like I, my sister, and brother were put into back in the 40s, where we'd be taken care of until a family would come in and adopt us?