The Refusal to Assist Babies Born Alive Denies their Humanity, and Our Own

Protestors dressed as abortion pills at the Democratic National Convention

Are we only now beginning to realise that two deaths - not one - occur when a baby is aborted?

Could it be that abortion kills not only the baby, but that something also dies within the culture that permits it?

The answer became plain yesterday when the Queensland Parliament held an inquiry into the plight of babies born alive after failed abortions.

At present in some states and territories, there is no requirement for ghouls or their imps - by which I mean abortionists and their staff - to provide treatment, or even care for these babies.

The inquiry heard that, typically, babies born alive after a failed abortion are placed in a container, moved to another room, and left to die.

Unwanted.

Unacknowledged.

Unloved.

Queensland MP Robbie Katter brought on the inquiry in the hope of convincing his fellow MPs that babies born alive deserve care - to at least to be held and comforted as they take their final breath.

Midwife Louise Adsett told the inquiry …

“These babies deserve better. They deserve to have the same rights that all of us human beings have.”

Which, of course, begs the question, why don’t these babies get better?

Providing care to a newborn should not be a contentious or controversial idea.

It is the very minimum of decency; the very least we should do as people who like to think of ourselves as civilised.

What does it say about our culture that we collectively shrug our shoulders and turn our backs on a newborn child – unmoved by his or her cry, and unconvinced by his or her humanity.

To be left cold by the plight of a helpless child, especially when it is within our power to render aid and assistance, is evidence that something in ourselves has already died even before breathes its last.

And this is the unacknowledged tragedy of abortion ...