{"id":35500,"date":"2019-01-30T22:21:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T04:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/?p=35500"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T16:33:37","slug":"the-bloody-red-herring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markmallett.com\/blog\/the-bloody-red-herring\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloody Red Herring","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam,<\/em> \u00a0(AP Photo\/Steve Helber)<\/span><\/p>\n

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THERE\u00a0<\/strong>is a collective gasp rising from America, and rightly so. Politicians have begun to move in several States to repeal restrictions on abortion that would then allow the procedure up until the moment of birth. But more than that. Today, the Governor of Virginia defended a proposed bill that would let mothers and their abortion provider decide whether a baby whose mother is in labor, or a baby born alive through a botched abortion,\u00a0can still be killed.<\/em><\/p>\n

This is a debate on legalizing infanticide.<\/p>\n

In a generation where parents or children can go back to work or school with color 3D ultrasound photos in hand of the newest member in the family still forming in the womb… where science and medicine have found ways to save premature babies as early as five months… where research has found that the pain threshold of babies in the womb, because of their thin skin, is much higher than a born child, and that sensory function can begin as early as 11 weeks gestation… [1]<\/sup><\/a>cf. The Hard Truth – Part V<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>