“Born Alive” Act Needs Your Support
Representative Dan Ruby is sponsoring a bill which would, in summary, define children still in their mothers’ wombs as human beings with the full protection of the law. Essentially meaning that any attempt, successful other otherwise, to kill them would be illegal.
I think this tact - which doesn’t specifically ban abortion - is the approach those of us who believe that abortion is an atrocious, barbarous act need to take to stopping abortion. Because recognizing that, post-conception, a child in the womb is in fact a human being isn’t superstition. It isn’t religious dogma. It isn’t just some convenient definition. It is cold, hard, verifiable fact.
From an objective, scientific vantage point there is no denying that life is a continuum of growth and development that begins at conception and ends at death, be that death caused by an abortion or some other factor. Any argument which claims otherwise is based not on science, but on emotion and a desire to justify an easy (if monstrous) “out” for people wishing to rid themselves of the responsibilities of unwanted children.
On Monday there will be a hearing at the legislature in Bismarck about this bill. Supporters should attend and show their support, and also contact their legislators telling them to vote for this bill. And contributing a bit of money to the cause wouldn’t hurt either.
