An abortionist who will not see

[PoliSciProf]

CAF readers will find the following short article from The Weekly Standard issue of 11/19/07 (page 3: the Scapbook section) of interest. I will never be able to understand the failure of abortionists to comprehend what they are doing, especially those like Dr. Wicklund who are repulsed when the see the remains of 21 week aborted fetus. I hope this short editorial is helpful to CAF readers.

Something Wicklund This Way Comes

Last week The New York Times profiled Dr. Susan Wicklund, author of the forthcoming book This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor. It seems like just the sort of book Times readers will want to add to their holiday shopping lists: Wicklund, who describes her own abortion as legal but “ghastly,” was moved to become an abortionist in order to provide her patients with a better experience.

After having witnessed an abortion of a 21-week-old fetus, Wicklund “writes that at the sight of its tiny arm she decided she would perform abortions only in the first trimester of pregnancy.” Not that there’s anything wrong with second- or third-trimester procedures, Wicklund explains. It’s just that she herself can’t handle the sight of something that looks so, well, human.

Asked if delivering babies would be a more rewarding experience, Wicklund replies, “Women are so grateful to know they can get through this safely, that they can still get pregnant again. It is one of the few areas of medicine where you are not working with a sick person, you are doing something for them that gives them back their life, their control. It’s a very rewarding thing to be a part of that.” Sure beats helping sick people.

 

[tm30]

When someone surrounds theirself in evil, perversion of the soul is sure to follow. When one is so inwardly diseased they cannot even connect the natural law of “do not kill” with the arm of the unborn child they just carved up, only the extraordinary intervention of God can save them.

 

[PoliSciProf]

When someone surrounds theirself in evil, perversion of the soul is sure to follow. When one is so inwardly diseased they cannot even connect the natural law of “do not kill” with the arm of the unborn child they just carved up, only the extraordinary intervention of God can save them.

I certainly understand and agree with what you say. Still, I find it incredible that such hardness of hearts exists. I can appreciate how someone can theoretically (but mistakenly) take an abortionist position but I just cannot comprehend how Dr. Wicklund can refuse to do 21 week abortions but still do them at 20 weeks. It does not require a Ph.D. in ethics or theology to reason this through. I think what is at stake is a misplaced compassion and the social pressure of pro-choice ideology. In other words, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Ultimately you are right. Acceptence of grace is the only hope for such people.

 

[RyanL]

IMHO, the whole book is a self-justification / rationalization / confession. At a deep level, the abortionist knows what she did was wrong.

God Bless,
RyanL

 

[Confused_1_1]

Remember what the Bible says about people who confuse everything and see good as evil and evil as good?

Love is in pure sight, an unborn baby, a gift from God, little by little they sin so much that they obstinately refuse their own good conscience which everyone is born with and can no longer discern right from wrong when it’s blatantly obvious and hence they blaspheme against the Holy Spirit who continuously affects their conscience and tries to help them.