Infanticide. Dictionary.com defines it as “the act of killing an infant”.

It isn’t something we like to think about in “polite” circles. If we do, we consider it something that happens “over there” in “less civilized” countries. After all, we would never kill a baby once he or she has been born…they need our protection and love, right?

The unfortunate and gruesome reality is, infanticide is happening right here in the United States, many times every day, maybe even right in your community.

Consider the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion “doctor” who specialized in late-term “abortions”.  Since Gosnell wasn’t a very good doctor, he didn’t want to go through the trouble of killing the baby in utero (an actual abortion).  Instead, he would anesthetize the mother, induce labor, and after the baby was born, kill him or her…..usually by snipping their spinal cord at the base of their neck with a pair of scissors. Make no mistake about it, these were babies who would have survived with the proper care, but Gosnell lied to his victims and killed their babies.

I can hear the naysayers now…Gosnell was a monster, an outlier…those cases do not happen every day!

The unfortunate, and brutal, reality, is that these cases happen more often than you may think. Granted, most abortionists try to make sure the baby is dead before being removed from the womb, either by pulling the child apart limb from limb, as in a dismemberment abortion, or by burning the baby to death with an injection of saline.  However, there are many stories of babies who survived their abortion.  Worse are the stories now coming out of babies who survive the abortion procedure, but the abortionist takes matters into his or her own hands and kills the baby…either by stabbing the baby to death, strangling the baby, or in most cases, cutting the baby’s spinal cord, as Mr. Gosnell did.  In recent Congressional testimony, current and former abortion workers admit that, at best, if a baby is born alive, they will ignore him or her until he or she dies on his or her own.

None of this is to say an abortion is better than infanticide.  In either case, the life of a living human being is ended against his or her will. The larger point is, we need to realize the horrors of all pro-life issues—abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia and work to help those around us to always choose life