Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Calif.) is catching a lot of flak from pro-abortion activists for some comments she made in a recent Q&A with New York Times Magazine this week, in which the DNC chair accused women born after Roe v. Wade of being complacent in standing up for abortion rights.
Here’s the excerpt from the article:
Question: Do you notice a difference between young women and women our age in their excitement about Hillary Clinton? Is there a generational divide?
DWS: Here’s what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.
Yep. Complacency. That’s why you’re seeing major pushback against abortion mills like Planned Parenthood, as throngs of people, many of them women, fight for the lives of the unborn -- because women are complacent.
It’s not because, since Roe v. Wade, ultrasound technology has improved to the point where women can now see 3D images of their children from the time they’re the size of a coffee bean.
And it’s not because medical science is now allowing doctors to save premature babies born as early as 21-22 weeks after fertilization, or perform surgery in utero to repair birth defects on an unborn child, thereby proving them to be human beings in their own right.
It’s certainly not because science now tells us babies can feel pain as early as 8 weeks – even though some states still allow unwanted children to be aborted by dismemberment without anesthesia during the third trimester.
And that complacency? It’s certainly not being demonstrated by the tens of thousands of women of all ages, races and backgrounds who march in the streets of Washington, D.C. every single January to protest the annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of babies.
Giana Jessen certainly wasn’t complacent when she testified before Congress last September about how she survived a failed abortion attempt in the 1970s, in which she was slowly burned alive by a saline injection, only to be born with cerebral palsy from the botched procedure.
Neither was Melissa Ohden, who lived through a similar abortion attempt and now speaks out for the most vulnerable.
Neither is Jill Stanek, a former nurse at Christ Hospital in Chicago who quit her job and became a pro-life activist after she held a baby born alive after an abortion procedure until he died, as she was not allowed to give him medical help. Stanek isn’t complacent in her stand on “women’s rights -- in fact, she was part of a group of pro-lifers who were arrested outside former House Speaker John Boehner’s office last year as they prayed for the lives of the unborn.
Perhaps most notably, Nancy McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” of that historic Supreme Court case that secured a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy on a national scale? She’s pro-life now. And she hasn’t been complacent in her fight to overturn the decision she once supported.
Then again, Debbie Wasserman Schultz can’t even deny that her own children were human beings before they were born. So maybe she should check her own dedication to the pro-abortion cause.