1. Lying About What Abortion Is
Perhaps the worst part about the entire discussion is the refusal by one side to admit what it is we’re actually talking about. While the pro-life side says, “Hey! This is human life!” the other side says, “No it isn’t,” and refuses to debate. But science and technology don’t lie. There are a few intellectually honest pro-choicers out there who start their argument from an “Okay, this is the ending of life, but here’s why I support its legality.” Give me a nation full of those kind of people! There is room for this debate. It needs to happen, but when one side is refusing to acknowledge that water is wet how do you move the conversation forward?
The best conversation starter I’ve seen is Gianna Jesson, abortion survivor. It’s pretty hard to look her in the face and explain to her why you think she should have been killed and that other babies just like her should face that fate. The following is a true story that happened on the floor of the Colorado congress thanks to Representative Ted Harvey. After hearing his congress was going to celebrate Planned Parenthood’s 90th anniversary, Harvey felt compelled to act. He brought Gianna Jesson to session with him. Before they began he slipped the speaker a note to ask if Jesson, who has cerebral palsy, could sing the national anthem. She stunned the session with her beautiful voice. Harvey then told her amazing story of overcoming her disease and the many accomplishments she’s achieved. After the entire congress was in awe of this girl, Harvey asked for the floor one more time to finish the story.
“The cause of Gianna’s cerebral palsy is not because of some biological freak of nature, but rather the choice of her mother. You see when her biological mother was 17-years-old and 7-and-a-half months pregnant, she went to a Planned Parenthood clinic to seek a late-term abortion. The abortionist performed a saline abortion on this 17-year-old girl. This procedure requires the injection of a high concentration of saline into the mother’s womb, which the fetus is then bathed in and swallows, which results in the fetus being burned to death, inside and out. Within 24 hours the results are normally an induced, still-born abortion.
As Gianna can testify, the procedure is not always 100 percent effective. Gianna is an aborted late-term fetus who was born alive. The high concentration of saline in the womb for 24 hours resulted in a lack of oxygen to her brain and is the cause of her cerebral palsy. Members, today, we are going to recognize the 90th anniversary of Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood…
BANG! The gavel came down.
Just as I was finishing the last sentence of my speech — the climax of the morning — the speaker of the House gaveled me down and said, “Representative Harvey, I will allow you to continue your introduction, but not for the purposes of debating a measure now pending before the House.”
At which point I said,Mr. Speaker, I understand. I just wanted to put a face to what we are celebrating today.
Silence. Deafening silence.
When faced with the truth of what abortion is even the staunchest defenders are silent. And silence isn’t what we need right now but an open and honest discussion.
