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By Judie Brown
Janis Joplin’s iconic song “Piece of My Heart” was
never intended to be about literally stopping a beating heart. Rather,
it was about a heart breaking due to unrequited love.
But
in the world of abortion-on-demand, where preborn babies are fair game,
the stakes are a bit different. The results have little to do with love
of the vulnerable but rather self-love.
And there it is. For some, there is no perceived difference between medical services for women and abortion when it comes to “ reproductive health”—the
current code words that include abortion as nothing more than part of
the full range of services every woman should have at her disposal.
At the Women’s Options Center at
the University of California San Francisco, for example, abortion is
the main focus. Several investigative reports into this particular
entity have given us a bird’s-eye view into the dark world where
abortion becomes a marketing opportunity as well as an alleged
reproductive service. While UCSF’s Jennifer Kerns has said that the abortionist who performs a dilation and extraction abortion suffers an emotional burden from
performing the killing, she neglects to note that the burden of death
is actually imposed on the preborn child. Clearly building up a callous
disregard for the human person requires time.
While
we have no sympathy for these practitioners, we can learn that, even as
they allegedly become emotionally disturbed, they train others on how to treat aborted baby body parts as
nothing more than products. This paves the way for the marketing of
baby body parts—a practice that continues to be rampant even after the Center for Medical Progressexposed
the practice and provided undeniable proof that Planned Parenthood and
others were profiting. Though these videos prompted congressional inquiries, the sordid practice has continued.
In an article entitled “ A Real Life American Horror Story,” Pro-Life San Francisco published a comprehensive overview of UCSF’s practices. This excellent report, in part, states:
For
decades, UCSF has been involved in fetal tissue research. Several
high-visibility experiments, with study protocols exploiting aborted
fetuses at a range of gestational ages and hundreds of animal test subjects, have been published online.
The
journey from treating abortion as a medical specialty to capitalizing
on the bodies of abortion victims is not a stretch but a short walk down
a very repulsive path. The 1973 Supreme Court started
escalating the war against the preborn, and over the past 47 years we
have seen that war grow more barbarous as consciences numb.
Doctor
Jewel Brown, Professor Jennifer Kerns, and the folks at UCSF—including
Women’s Options Center—all have one thing in common: They have freely
chosen to break the hearts of preborn babies by killing them. The research on and sale of their body parts became a grisly practice that was not a bridge too far.
The
lesson here is a simple one: Killing people by calling them something
other than people does not change the horror of it. Abortion numbs
consciences and stops beating hearts. As a nation, we have collectively
murdered millions.
The
result: A piece of our nation’s heart has gone missing. The cure: Those
of us who respect life and human dignity stay the course until no
little heart or big heart is cut to pieces ever again.
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