Infanticide
Does it Exist in America?
My intent on writing this article is to share my research. This topic would have never crossed my mind had it not been for my utter shock and disbelief, when in the Presidential debate between former President Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris, on the topic of abortion, there was a statement made by Conservative Trump in regard to "babies being executed" and "laughed off" followed by vehement denials (both by Harris AND so-called "fact checked" ABC moderator, Linsey Davis.)
POINT number 1 :
*(For a moderator to "fact check" in a debate is highly suspicious for bias and is professional in poor taste, to say the least)
Come to find out, Linsey Davis & Kamala Harris are sorority sisters from AKA, albeit from different schools. Yet, consider this only after you read the article I found written before the debate and "think" about those messy implications:
Call me old-fashioned, but I never trust someone to do my fact-checking. I will do my own, thank you very much! I can critically think. I do not allow others to think for me...
Point number 2:
What did the previous governor from West Virginia actually say? Well, you can read it and make your own take-away as to what the actual truth about abortion semantics is BEFORE you call it a false claim like CNN does in their title ...
Point number 3:
What is truth? Is there a current practice that exists in America that would allow babies to be neglected to death???
Is "execution" too harsh of a correct term?
Perhaps this next article, written by:
Charles C. Camosy is a professor of medical humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine and a moral theology fellow at St. Joseph Seminary in New York
will serve to give the deepest amount and most valid representation of the TRUE FACTS to the question, "Is there a current practice that exists in America that would allow babies to be neglected to death???"
Point number 4:
Does America know the whole truth about where Harris stands on abortion?
It seemed like the question that Trump begged the moderator to ask of Harris:
(“Will she allow abortion in the eighth month, ninth month, seventh month — OK, would you do that?” Trump said.) Harris did not answer. The moderator was also silent...
Maybe her choice in Vice-President is a clue? Is her stance the same as his? Please answer the question, Kamala.
Point number 5:
Trump may not get all his facts correct 100% of the time, he may be blunt, he might think America has been just as informed on what's going on in America and around the world thus (over-estimating that we have researched) and come to the same conclusions of which he has, but is he wrong?
Is America only being "fed" and not "feeding" itself on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth...?
Most likely why I was in shock and didn't want to believe that infanticide in some form or another might be occurring.
But now I know....
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*I had not heard about cats being eaten in Ohio, either. But that is for a deeper dive in a later conversation. To even think about either of these two practices of appalling topics (infanticide or cat-eating occurrences) will cause normal, moral individuals to wince and automatically want to reject the idea that they can be going on. But as an American voter, we cannot turn away in good conscience. We have to have informed knowledge to make the correct choices. So, my urging to you is:
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We are thinking about the same things apparently! Great job here.
The thing is, we really can't fact check ourselves, because we bring bias to our own search and reading of information. It does seem wrong that Kamala had personal links to the fact checker though.
Please forgive my ignorance, but does abortion count as infanticide? If yes, does it also count as infanticide if it's done to save either or both the mother and baby's life? Or done on a rape victim?