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Gianna was at the receiving end of a saline abortion, a ghastly procedure which, thankfully, is becoming rarer, though is still not illegal. Listen to her story HERE.

However, partial- birth abortion has taken its place in terms of  ‘dealing with’ older pre-borns,  and is appalling on other counts. Partial-birth abortion and the rights of aborted babies to receive care (if they manage to survive their ordeal, that is) are issues in the present election.  

According to Bill Muehlenberg, a saline abortion ’is usually done in second and early third trimesters.  A hypertonic saline solution is injected into the amniotic sac.  This burns and poisons the baby for many hours.  The baby breathes and swallows this solution which results in dehydration, convulsions and brain haemorrhage. Afterwards a dead baby is expelled by natural labour  … Saline abortion victims are sometimes referred to as “candy apple” babies. That is because “the corrosive effect of the salt solution often burns and strips away the outer layer of the baby’s skin.  This exposes the raw, red, glazed-looking subcutaneous layer of tissue.  The baby’s head sometimes looks like a candy apple.  Some have also likened this method to the effect of napalm on innocent war victims. This technique was originally developed in the concentration camps in Nazi Germany."’ Many argue that ‘pro-life’ becomes a single-cause issue — and of course we know that reality is far more complex than that!  I completely agree - it is.  Pro-life is committed across the board to quality of life for all, the already-born, the child, the adolescent, the adult, the elderly.  Perhaps this concern has not been adequately communicated.  However, why this one issue is of utmost importance is that only those who are allowed to be born can be the object of care at any other  time.  And each year in the US 1 and 1/4 million (or so) preborn end up as tiny, often shredded or dismembered corpses or slightly larger  ‘candy apple’ babies or those whose skulls have been pierced and emptied through partial-birth abortion.  Just how is this not the ultimate in legally and culturally sanctioned child abuse?  

One final point here.  One could argue that, well, abortion is important but other issues count more, and perhaps tackling them matters most in the long run.  That rather reminds me of how Germany in the 1930s could overlook the anti-semitism (and other appalling social engineering projects) of its Fuhrer because he was actually doing some very beneficial and necessary things for the country as well.  Had this not been the case, he would not have been able to stay in power for as long as he did.  Looking back now, we do not give credit to Hitler for how advanced he was in certain of his social and economic policies, do we? 

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