Doctor’s stance ignores the baby’s perspective

Editor,

Dr. Sandra Penn’s letter, “Vote ‘no’ on abortion restriction measure” found in Wednesday’s Daily Lobo, is nothing more than an attempt at the continued promulgation of genocide, dressing it up in the guise of “scientific detachment.”

First of all, the supposed right to an abortion is not a health care issue despite the attempts to portray it as so. This is because being pregnant is not an illness or disease, nor will anyone find it defined as such in any medical textbook.

Second, the government, the city and the state have the right to intervene when the life of an innocent person is at stake. That is why we have the police, the military and the National Guard. And if Sandra Penn is going to argue that the 5-month-old fetus is not a person, she is on very shaky ground. A 5-month-old fetus has a developing brain, heart and spinal cord. In addition, the 5-month-old fetus can feel and register pain.

This, however, is the major blind spot in Penn’s specious argument. Not once in her disguised diabolical diatribe does she consider what late-term abortion is like for the fetus. So I’ll give you one example of what often happens.

The baby’s head is pulled outside the woman’s body, though the feet are left inside so that the procedure — i.e. murder — will not be equated with infanticide. Next, scissors are used to cut into the baby’s still-developing brain. Next, the brain is suctioned out of the still-developing skull, ending the baby’s life.

How, in any way, is this “safe” for the 5-month-old fetus?

Needless to say, the fetus screams loudly during this infanticide — screams that apparently Penn and other pro-choice people are deaf to.

In addition, what evidence does Penn give that the medical community “overwhelmingly” supports abortion, let alone late-term abortion? Any look at surveys from the internet will show deep divisions within the medical community.

Penn also gives the false reassurance that pregnant women who want an abortion will receive the “best, safest and most appropriate procedure for her condition.” This begs the question: What about the torturous and murderous abortion practices of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and others that have left many women severely handicapped and, in some cases, dead?

People should not let themselves be swayed by vacuous arguments meant to conceal inhuman practices. Any discussion of abortion which leaves out the realities of suffering and death for the baby lacks integrity and honesty.

Mark J. Wilson
UNM alumnus