Most of that stuff is pro-metabolist propaganda.
Cutting the foetus to pieces is an emergency procedure used very, very rarely when a late term abortion is immediately necessary (outside of the normal legal window) to save the life of the mother, and where trying to preserve the foetus intact could cause unnecessary risk. There is absolutely no reason to cut a foetus apart to remove it during the normal window of legal pregnancy. It would just be ridiculous, fiddly and unnecessary. The moral calculus of that situation is always going to be difficult and it's obviously one of the more controversial forms of abortion, but at the end of the day the mother is a conscious living being and the foetus, for all its complexity at that point, is not. If you eat meat, you certainly have no grounds to complain. The animals who are killed in a slaughterhouse to make your burgers are far more conscious than that foetus.
The idea of abortionists "killing" foetuses on the operating table is essentially just a myth, and yes, the myth has led to "born alive" laws being adopted by some states. The thing is, there is basically no evidence that "born alive" laws actually achieve anything in the case of abortion. Even at the very latest point that an elective legal abortion is possible, killing a foetus after it is "born" is entirely unnecessary. Even with the most aggressive medical treatment available, which would certainly leave the resulting child horrifically damaged and permanently disabled, the chance of survival would be negligible and unprecedented. Without the provision of that intensive medical treatment, death is inevitable. "Abortion survivors" do not actually exist in any kind of routine or conventional sense. Abortions at that stage are already incredibly rare, and given the extreme harm involved conventional medical ethics would not dictate trying to keep a foetus "born" in that state alive at any costs. Born alive laws represent an attempt to override the normal process of medical ethics, but given the extreme difficulty involved I'd genuinely doubt that any person has actually been "saved" under born alive laws who wouldn't have been "saved" anyway.
Of course, doctors break the rules sometimes, and there can be pressure to violate medical ethics, but that's hardly restricted to abortion and isn't always a bad thing. Certainly in deathcare, doctors will often be put in the position of having to "covertly" euthanize people because frankly, the limits placed on doctors in that regard are ridiculous. Two of my grandparents had to be starved to death, because their minds were gone and yet that was the only legal way to kill them. The cruelty and indignity of that situation has never been lost on me. At that point, it's not loving life, it's just being afraid of death.
Last edited:
