In my last post, I said that I knew that an unborn baby is alive in the womb, and that this baby is killed through an abortion procedure. To some, that’s a pretty big accusation. An actual human baby, killed… through an abortion; a procedure deemed a legal constitutional right to women by the United States Supreme Court. How could there be a law, a national mandate, that allows women to legally kill off their unborn child? It might be easy for one brought under the spell of pro-abortion propaganda to believe that this simply couldn’t happen in today’s sophisticated evolution of social awareness. We as a nation wouldn’t tolerate any law that legalizes the killing of an innocent human being, especially an unborn baby. No, not now. Not in today’s day and age.

But do we?

In the United States a pregnant woman has the legal right to terminate her pregnancy at any time through an abortion procedure. The legality of this right, publicly argued by pro-abortion advocates, is largely based on a claim that the baby being aborted is somehow not really alive, until it is fully born. Any woman who has an abortion has simply made a choice to end her pregnancy, and is hailed throughout pro-abortion media outlets as a woman with true authority over her life, her body, her reproductive rights. A true feminist hero. 

But the story of this baby and heroic feminism takes on a different light if the father of the baby finds out before she has the abortion that this same woman, his wife, is carrying the baby of another man; then in a fit of rage proceeds to beat and strangle this woman, killing both her and likewise the baby inside of her. This horrific event, the brutal killing of a mother and her unborn baby, is rightfully reported as a great tragedy. Headlines, radio and TV anchors across the nation proclaim through the same pro-abortion media outlets that, “The husband of the woman has been apprehended and is now in police custody… the prosecuting attorney is expected to charge him with the double murder of his wife and her unborn child.”

The main question with these two scenarios must be, how is it that the state of life for the unborn baby changes? In the first scenario the actions of the pro-abortion media suggest that the baby that was aborted by its mother was somehow, not alive. Yet at the same time for the father to be charged with the double murder of his wife and the baby, the unborn baby must have been legally considered, alive. This is the same baby, in the same womb, of the same mother. In both cases the baby ceases to live.

How can it be that in one scenario the death of the baby results from the cruel actions of a murderer, and in the other, the triumphant result of a choice made by… a hero?