“We are known by the company we keep”
“Birds of a feather flock together”
Mantras like these are told to us at a young age, and repeated as warnings throughout life as we become teenagers and young adults. The same can be said of our country. Consider our “company” and the proverbial “birds” we flock with when it comes to allowing pre-born children to be torn apart in their mother’s womb in dismemberment abortions.
The United States is only one of seven countries worldwide that allow the horror of dismemberment abortions…a horror Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy referred to in Gonzales v. Carhart as “…laden with the power to devalue human life”. These countries include China, Vietnam, North Korea, and Singapore, all of whom perform horrible human rights violations such as political imprisonment, restrictions on freedom of speech, religious persecution, repression of minority groups, and detention without trial. Is this the kind of company the United States wants to keep?
Dismemberment abortions, which are performed on unborn babies as old as 24 weeks in Pennsylvania occur after the baby has brain waves, legs, arms, every organ in place, and have even developed teeth and fingernails. Of the approximately 1 million abortions performed annually in this country, almost 9% are performed on these pre-born babies. Approximately 1,550 Pennsylvanians died from this abortion method in 2014.
Thankfully, there IS something we can do to end our affiliation with the countries that currently allow this atrocity. House Bill 1948 will ban dismemberment abortions in Pennsylvania and lower the age of a legal abortion in Pennsylvania from 24 weeks to 20 weeks.
Call and email your representative in the PA House of Representatives with this urgent message: “Please support House Bill 1948, which bans dismemberment abortions in Pennsylvania. These abortions are brutal for babies and harmful for mothers, and they need to be outlawed.”
If you don’t know who your state Representative is, or you need contact information, click here. (http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/home/findyourlegislator/#address ) Enter your address and a window will pop up with the names and contact information for your state Representative.
We need to act quickly to pass HB1948 to protect those who are most vulnerable among us from a horrible death. Passing HB1948 has the added advantage of removing Pennsylvania from the shadow of these countries with such terrible human rights records.