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Governor Romney who is strongly pro-life, has vetoed the bill. The legislature is poised to override his veto. The bill not only makes the morning after pill legal in hospitals for rape victims, but to be dispensed by pharmacists to the general public without a prescription. The pill is controversial because a woman takes the pill after having sex to prevent any fertilized egg from attaching itself to the uterine wall, thereby preventing pregnancy. Medical experts say that the majority of fertilized eggs gestate out naturally and never become embryos. Some pro-life advocates (including Governor Romney) are adamantly opposed to making the morning after pill legal, calling it just another method of abortion and drawing no distinction between early term and late term abortions. Their position is that any human action which prevents a fertilized egg from fully developing and maturing into a human baby is murder, plain and simple. So, let’s assume for a minute that they are right. Let’s also assume for the sake of discussion that birth control pills are really chemical abortions, that the morning after pill is also just another method of abortion, and that any human interference in the development of a fertilized egg is murder. Those who hold such an opinion are outraged at what they consider legalized murder inside the womb. But, to use that pro-life stance to also oppose legalizing the morning after pill is misguided by the belief that this is a debate over whether or not we should legally sanction abortion. That debate is long over. Since Roe v. Wade, abortion is the protected law of the land and is legally taking place at a rate of 1.4 million procedures per year. That didn’t happen overnight, and reversing it may take a little longer. If the morning after pill is defeated in the Massachusetts legislature, it will not prevent one abortion from being performed. The torture of a human life inside the womb will continue unfettered. The real debate is not whether “to kill, or not to kill,” but whether or not the morning after pill can prevent later term abortions — abortions where excruciating pain is inflicted on a developing baby who already has nerve endings, pain receptors and possibly self awareness. Currently, the standard methods of abortion are: #1) saline
injections which act like acid on the nerve endings of
the developing baby, slowly eating away the flesh as
he/she thrashes around in severe pain until dead, and #2) inserting
a vacuum tube to suck out the baby’s limbs one at a
time (again, while the baby thrashes in excruciating
pain) until he/she is dead. Not to mention the inhuman
practice of partial birth abortion where the baby is
partially born, a sharp instrument is used to stab the
baby in the back of the neck, and a vacuum tube used to
suck out his/her brain. If you were
given the choice between being tortured by terrorists and
then killed, or taking a bullet to the head and dying
quickly, I doubt even one of you would choose to be
tortured first. Those who truly value human life must understand that the choices before us are not between life and death, they are between “death with torture and death without torture.” Unfortunately, many well meaning and sincere pro-life advocates are stuck in an ideology where they can only advocate for the ideal (the banning of all abortions) and oppose anything that falls short of that ideal. In this case,
that will result in the torture of more innocent life
before it is legally killed anyway. How could anyone
support such horror in the name of preserving and
protecting life? *Send your questions
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The Massachusetts legislature has
passed a measure making the morning after pill legal in
Massachusetts.