Police and prosecutors in Hialeah, Fla., are investigating an abortion clinic incident that has all the markings of murder. On the morning of July 20, an 18-year-old girl walked into the A Gyn Diagnostics Center to abort her baby at 23 weeks. She had received medication to dilate her cervix the night before. By that afternoon, however, the clinic abortionist, Frantz Bazile, had not shown up for work.

The girl delivered her baby, alive, moving, and trying to breathe. Clinic worker Belkis Gonzalez then allegedly cut the umbilical cord, stuffed the wriggling, gasping baby into a biohazard bag, and sealed the bag shut.

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While I've said before that I don't necessarily agree with outlawing all abortions (specifically first trimester abortions) I do think that travesties like this are directly linked to our society's cavalier attitude towards abortion and what pro-choicers claim are merely "fetuses" and not human beings in the making.

I also think that this once again highlights the absurdity of the pro-choice movement when they make the argument that life begins only at birth (their definition of "birth" being only when the baby is completely born - thus their justification of partial birth abortion as not being murder). As John Hawkins correctly points out:

We may gasp at the cruelty of taking a "wriggling" baby, stuffing it into a biohazard bag, and watching it slowly suffocate to death. But, if the abortionist had shown up on time, cut that same "wriggling" baby to pieces with surgical tools, crushed the child's tiny skull like an eggplant, and then vacuumed the grisly remains out and stuffed the remains into a biohazard bag, the baby would be every bit as dead.

Something that, for me, hits particularly close to home is that this murdered infant and I share the same birthday. Rest in peace, little one.