Confessions of a Cooperator
Very hard to finish reading this, hard to believe that the proborts are so addicted to their own agenda that they would do nothing to help a dying child.
The Born Alive Infant Protection Act passed a couple of years ago would mandate that baby Rowan be attended to, but according to Jill Stanek the Act is regularly ignored throughout the country in abortion clinics. Stanek is the nurse whose testimony of babies born alive after abortions and left to die did much to influence the passage of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
I suspect there was some kind of cognitive dissonance going on with the abortion clinic staff in this case. They were used to dealing with the nasty cleanup of "expelled material" or whatever else they call the bloody remains of aborted fetuses, but taken aback by a live, moving baby. They were probably in fear of their jobs and trying desperately to figure out how to make the whole thing go away before the higher-ups descended upon them. This wasn't the first baby born alive at this clinic - I did some searching and found that it has been the target of other lawsuits due to babies aborted and born alive.
The whole abortion industry is going to collapse under the weight of the massive cognitive dissonance involved in killing thousands of unborn a day, I am convinced.
An interesting analysis. I'm not very well versed in psychology, so please explain. I guess enough people in the industry feel they are helping women and atively avoid thinking about the babies as babies?
Jo,
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation.
I don't know how often in the course of working at an abortion clinic a staff member encounters a "fetus" that is moving. I am guessing this would be a rare event. What they already know and believe is that what is aborted is "tissue", "potential persons", etc. The new information would be a moving, breathing baby. On top of the impulse of anyone who botches something at work to "cover their ass", the staff members to whom the mother was shouting "Call 911! Call 911!" had to deal with this shock and discomfort of having to process new information about the "products of abortion".
I heard Jill Stanek speak a couple of months ago. She said that in Christ Church Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois where she first blew the whistle on the live birth abortions practiced during her nursing shifts, the hospital now has set up a Comfort Room for parents who abort their children. The parents can have their aborted children baptized, can hold them, have pictures taken, etc. Quite a difference from when they'd put them with the dirty linens in Jill's day. But she says there are still babies aborted alive there and all over the country, and the hospitals routinely ignore the Born Alive Infant Protection Act and allow the infants to die.
One of the first reforms the early Christian churches made was to forbid both abortion and the exposing of newborn infants to the elements to die. The Frances Kissling's of the world who think that Catholic pro-choicers are "enlightened" and "progressive" don't seem to realize that, in fact, they are harking back to a pre-Christian paganism. Talk about traditionalists!
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