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America’s Great Sin

America has always been a nation for good though never perfect. It has a past filled with injustices but has always worked to correct them and make things right. Recently in Florida, something so gruesom happened that it is hard to accept that it was a real even and not something out of a Hollywood movie.

TAMPA, Florida — Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.

Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure.

Only Renelique didn’t arrive in time. According to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.

What Williams and the Health Department say happened next has shocked people on both sides of the abortion debate: One of the clinic’s owners, who has no medical license, cut the infant’s umbilical cord. Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.

Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.

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I came across another story today that gives a glimmer of hope. A 12 year old girl at a school in Toronto won a speech contest after nearly being forced to drop her topic of abortion. This girl made a video of her speech which you can see below.

Whether you agree with her position or not, how did we reach a point both in America and Canada where free thought and the open debate of ideas is stifled because a topic is “controversial”? Why do people on the “pro-choice” side go to such great lengths to silence anyone who dares speak against the evils of abortion with well thought out points, facts, and strong and sincere feelings for the sanctity and protection of human life?

If aborting a fetus was merely a choice to be made by the mother, why is it such a “hard choice” for those who are faced with making it? Deep down, every person knows that the “fetus” is a human being. Every person knows that ripping a “fetus” out piece by piece is brutal and depraved. While that is a “choice”, it is not a choice that be defended as ethical or humane by anyone being intellectually honest.

With the medical knowledge and technology, there is no doubt anymore when life begins. The only doubt comes when people shut off their conscience because they don’t want to address the brutal practice that has take the lives of 3,300 babies each day, 1.2 million babies each year, and 50 million babies since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in 1973.