Heartbeats and Pain;
Time is Not on Their side, Are You?
Kevin M. Nelson 09/16/2011
Meet Monica. Monica is a 19 year old college student from California starting her second year at a University in Ohio.
Monica just found out she is pregnant, and sits anxiously in an exam room of a local clinic, waiting for a doctor to come in and discuss her options. After a few tense moments, the doctor comes in. Monica and the doctor have a brief conversation, he checks his calendar, and tells Monica that she is approximately two weeks pregnant, but an ultra-sound will be necessary before discussing her plans any further. A small amount of cold gel is applied to Monica’s abdomen and the doctor begins the ultra-sound.
The doctor finds the small peanut sized child on the screen and confirms that she is less than eighteen days pregnant. The doctor then resumes the conversation they started earlier, with “You just made it. A few days more and we could not do the procedure”.
Monica aborts the child.
Had Monica only gone to the doctors a week later … The small peanut-sized child would have had a detectable heartbeat and grown to be a healthy baby boy named Jason. Jason would have been adopted by a young couple from Columbus who recently found out they could not conceive a child on their own. Knowing only that his birth mother was from California, Jason would grow up studying geology and earthquakes. He was destined to invent new computer technology that could predict an earthquake three hours before impact. His machine would have saved his mother, who later returned to California. Monica died during a very damaging earthquake, 26 years after the abortion.
Because of the Heartbeat Bill, Jason was sentenced to die via abortion because Monica went to the doctor on a Friday, and not the following Wednesday.
Now meet Emily. Emily is a thirty-four year old journalist from Boston who is in her first year of on-site reporting for a local television station. Emily is already starting to show physical signs of pregnancy, but just found out how far along she is. She is seventeen weeks pregnant. Her friend, who has been by her side for this appointment, tells her “think of your career” as they discuss the option of abortion. The doctor comes in and says “Have you made a decision?” After a long pause… Emily tells the doctor that she is going to keep her baby.
Though her baby now has a heartbeat, fingers, and toes, Fetal Pain legislation would have allowed Emily to abort the child anytime for the next two weeks. Emily gave birth to a baby girl named Allison. Allison would later go to MIT, where she was destined to meet Jason, work with him on his earthquake detection device, and fall in-love while doing so. Allison was at a technology conference in California when the earthquake struck that killed both her, and Jason’s mother.
Do you now understand why I cannot support incremental legislation like the Heartbeat Bill or Fetal Pain Bills? By their unintended flawed design, they still allow babies to be murdered because they don’t meet the absolute criteria of a certain number of days or weeks.
These types of legislation are comparable to the Allied Forces calling up Hitler and saying “Ok, Adolph, we’ll make you a deal. You can keep Poland and Germany, kill all the male Jews and Elderly Jews, but you have to promise not to harm the women and children Jews and pull out of the other places you’ve invaded.”
Many proLifers are jumping for joy over these legislative measures. Why? The moment we publicly acknowledge that the developing child is both Alive and Human, yet put parameters on when it is “OK to kill them”, we should be disgusted with ourselves, not proud!
Time is Not on Their side, Are You?
Kevin M. Nelson 09/16/2011
Meet Monica. Monica is a 19 year old college student from California starting her second year at a University in Ohio.
Monica just found out she is pregnant, and sits anxiously in an exam room of a local clinic, waiting for a doctor to come in and discuss her options. After a few tense moments, the doctor comes in. Monica and the doctor have a brief conversation, he checks his calendar, and tells Monica that she is approximately two weeks pregnant, but an ultra-sound will be necessary before discussing her plans any further. A small amount of cold gel is applied to Monica’s abdomen and the doctor begins the ultra-sound.
The doctor finds the small peanut sized child on the screen and confirms that she is less than eighteen days pregnant. The doctor then resumes the conversation they started earlier, with “You just made it. A few days more and we could not do the procedure”.
Monica aborts the child.
Had Monica only gone to the doctors a week later … The small peanut-sized child would have had a detectable heartbeat and grown to be a healthy baby boy named Jason. Jason would have been adopted by a young couple from Columbus who recently found out they could not conceive a child on their own. Knowing only that his birth mother was from California, Jason would grow up studying geology and earthquakes. He was destined to invent new computer technology that could predict an earthquake three hours before impact. His machine would have saved his mother, who later returned to California. Monica died during a very damaging earthquake, 26 years after the abortion.
Because of the Heartbeat Bill, Jason was sentenced to die via abortion because Monica went to the doctor on a Friday, and not the following Wednesday.
Now meet Emily. Emily is a thirty-four year old journalist from Boston who is in her first year of on-site reporting for a local television station. Emily is already starting to show physical signs of pregnancy, but just found out how far along she is. She is seventeen weeks pregnant. Her friend, who has been by her side for this appointment, tells her “think of your career” as they discuss the option of abortion. The doctor comes in and says “Have you made a decision?” After a long pause… Emily tells the doctor that she is going to keep her baby.
Though her baby now has a heartbeat, fingers, and toes, Fetal Pain legislation would have allowed Emily to abort the child anytime for the next two weeks. Emily gave birth to a baby girl named Allison. Allison would later go to MIT, where she was destined to meet Jason, work with him on his earthquake detection device, and fall in-love while doing so. Allison was at a technology conference in California when the earthquake struck that killed both her, and Jason’s mother.
Do you now understand why I cannot support incremental legislation like the Heartbeat Bill or Fetal Pain Bills? By their unintended flawed design, they still allow babies to be murdered because they don’t meet the absolute criteria of a certain number of days or weeks.
These types of legislation are comparable to the Allied Forces calling up Hitler and saying “Ok, Adolph, we’ll make you a deal. You can keep Poland and Germany, kill all the male Jews and Elderly Jews, but you have to promise not to harm the women and children Jews and pull out of the other places you’ve invaded.”
Many proLifers are jumping for joy over these legislative measures. Why? The moment we publicly acknowledge that the developing child is both Alive and Human, yet put parameters on when it is “OK to kill them”, we should be disgusted with ourselves, not proud!