Angelus News | May 31, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 20

another example of linguistic malpractice
which further hampers the
debate, as debate requires logic and
honesty … even in disagreement.
It is obvious there has been another
clandestine conference somewhere
in the bastions of the popular culture
regarding the flurry of new laws popping
up that require abortion limitations
based on the appearance of fetal
heartbeats.
Those who champion any abortion,
anywhere and for any reason, don’t
seem to like the word “heartbeat.”
They have begun using the language
“fetal cardiac activity” instead. Sounds
more clinical and yes, less human.
An article by an Adam Rogers on the
Wired website insists the “heartbeat”
bills go against science by using the
very word “heartbeat.”
To back up his claim he refers to this
quote from a Dr. Jennifer Kerns from
UC San Diego: “The rhythm specified
in the six-week abortion bans is a
group of cells with electrical activity.”
Now I’m no doctor, but isn’t the
heart that is beating inside the chest
of every man, woman, and child on
planet Earth just a “group of cells
with electrical activity?” Orwell strikes
again.
Another turn of a word like it was a
kind of lathe being winnowed of all
its meaning is “viability.” Science certainly
informs us that a 1-month-old
fetus is not viable outside the protective
environment of her mother’s
womb.
But science also tells us that a
1-month-old baby girl, hopefully one
that has escaped the clutches of the
governor of Virginia, is also not viable
without around-the-clock care from
her parents.
Contrary to pro-abortion pundits and
most of the members of the Screen
Actors Guild and the Writers Guild
of America, science is and always
will be on the side of life. The more
developed science becomes, the more
definitive the evidence in favor of the
unborn becomes.
But what this new frontline of the
struggle over abortion in our nation
tells more clearly is that the most important
battle to come will not be for
scientific minds, but for open hearts.
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