A Texas courtroom completed a five-day trial last Wednesday discussing the ethics behind second-trimester abortion procedures, a case that could set the precedent for how lawmakers see the highly debated status of the human fetus.
In a Washington Examiner opinion article, Nicole Russell stated that the case Whole Women’s Health v Paxton revolved around the abortion provider's argument against a Texas law that banned “dismemberment abortions” usually performed on a live baby in it’s second-trimester. Basically, they argued that they shouldn’t have to kill the baby before removing its limbs and removing it from the mother’s womb.
Believe it or not, this is the first time such a case has gone to trial.
The case exposed the falsehood of the pro-abortion movement’s attempt to truthfully explain what actually happens in an abortion procedure. Supposed legal experts for WWH argued that dismemberment was the only way to cause “fetal demise”- or kill the baby, for those of us who have our feet firmly planted in reality.
Not only did they use the doctored term “fetal demise” to deceivingly describe killing the unborn child, a common deceptive practice, they lied about it being the only way to do so.
The Federalist reporter, John Daniel Davidson, explained how Texas State attorneys argued for a variety of of safer options than the medically termed “dilation and evacuation” procedure:
You can inject a chemical called digoxin into the unborn child. You can inject potassium chloride directly into the child’s heart, which causes it to stop beating within minutes. Or you can simply sever the umbilical cord and allow the child to bleed to death. It’s all rather straightforward.
Davidson also reported on how the Texas case is exposing the gruesomeness of dismemberment abortions to an audience that probably hasn’t questioned the morality of such abortion practices. The defense’s first witness, Dr. Anthony Levatino, described why he stopped performing abortions after losing his six-year old daughter in a car crash:
I really, truly looked at that pile of body parts on the side of the table. I didn't see [the patient's] wonderful right to choose; I didn't see what a great doctor I was helping her with her problem; and I didn't even see the $800 cash I'd just made in 15 minutes. All I could see was somebody's son or daughter.
It absolutely boggles my mind how such a gruesome practice can still be legally endorsed in America, but with quotes like “liberation must come from within” written on the walls of abortion operating rooms, it isn’t hard to see how such an abominable lie came to be peddled as the truth in our day and age.