Abortion is nothing new, including (sadly) the killing of newborn babies. “Deformed infants shall be killed,” said Cicero (106-43 B.C.) “We drown children who are weakly and abnormal,” said Seneca (A.D. 65). Archaeological evidence found at Delphi revealed a census taken of 600 families with only one percent of them having more than one daughter.
So as horrifying as what occurred at Gosnell’s clinic is, it’s a bloodstain that’s very old.
What is new, however, is that we now claim we are more civilized and “evolved” as a culture than past civilizations. Yet, the same horrifying carnage practiced by prior societies is committed today and justified or covered up with the lame excuse that we supposedly do not know when someone becomes a ‘person’. Such thinking is the only thing that keeps abortion from being outlawed via the fourteenth amendment that says: “nor shall any State deprive any person of...