Planned Parenthood Afraid to Call a Child a Human

South Dakota has been back in the headlines a lot again lately. For such a small state (less than 1 million people), South Dakota is a preeminent leader in the fight for life and human rights.

We’ve made national and world headlines recently for our second attempt to ban most abortions in South Dakota. We’ve also made headlines for our sonograms law to provide more information to women considering abortion.

We’re also making national headlines because of last week’s 8th U.S. Court of Appeals decision lifting the stay on South Dakota’s law requiring abortionists to inform women considering abortion “That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”

From CNS News today:

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds and Attorney General Larry Long, representing the state, argued against Planned Parenthood in the suit, providing evidence that the embryo or fetus is “whole, separate, unique and living.”

The court’s ruling said, “Planned Parenthood submitted no evidence to oppose that conclusion.”

The court cited a bioethicist’s affidavit, submitted by Planned Parenthood, which stated that “to describe an embryo or fetus scientifically and factually, one would say that a living embryo or fetus in utero is a developing organism of the species Homo Sapiens which may become a self-sustaining member of the species if no organic or environmental evidence interrupts its gestation.”

What a tortured definition of an embryo or fetus! All that gobbldygook in a vain attempt to deny recognition of an unborn human as a human. Even the judges didn’t buy it.

And these are supposed to be smart people? I think they’ve managed to outsmart themselves…and that’s all.

If an unborn child has human DNA, and that human DNA is unique from either the mother or the father, then that child isn’t a part of the mother’s or father’s body with which they can do whatever they want.

It is a separate and unique human being, deserving of the most basic of all God-given rights: the right to life.

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