By Judie Brown
Kamala Harris tends to exaggerate, but she is also a bit out of her league when it comes to using the English language. For example, a recent ABC News article stated, “Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday that Republican former President Donald Trump was ‘cruel’ for how he talked about the grieving family of a Georgia mother who died after waiting 20 hours for a hospital to treat her complications from an abortion pill, as she put combating restrictions on reproductive care at the center of her pitch to voters.”
Harris was referring to the case of Amber Thurman, a young woman who died after complications allegedly caused by the abortion pill. Harris used Thurman’s tragic story in one of her campaign ads, focusing of course on the safety of abortion as a reason to vote for her and not her opponent. But the truth is usually distant from the political rhetoric, and so we take a moment to consider it here.
The sad truth is that Amber Thurman’s twin babies died during an abortion, and she also died from abortion complications. These deaths are not a matter of politics; all three deaths are tragic and could have been prevented if life had been affirmed and welcomed. But that truth does not sit well among those involved in politics.
Amber Thurman died from sepsis. Realizing that the abortion pills were not working properly, she went to the hospital. According to LifeSiteNews, “After Thurman went to the hospital, the doctors delayed performing a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure to remove the infected fetal remains from her body, which ended up killing her. . . . The D&C procedure wouldn’t have been illegal under Georgia’s abortion law because the unborn children were already dead. The doctors simply waited too long, which tragically resulted in Thurman’s death.”
The truth about her tragic death does not serve the abortion cartel narrative, and thus few learned the entire story. This is the way it goes in a nation where abortion is zealously protected, regardless of truth. Apparently this is also why terms like “Zombie abortion laws” can be used with impunity. Conjuring up the image of a zombie makes it easy for abortion advocates to demonize laws or other actions designed to protect the preborn.
Riders on the abortion bandwagon are rarely concerned with facts. These most recent stories remind us that actual cruelty is never admitted in the age of language demolition. After all, the cruelest thing a mother can do is agree to the direct killing of her own baby. However, to admit that this is precisely what every abortion does would be to confess to a truth more and more Americans refuse to accept.
But in the final days leading up to the election, we are obliged to take a step back and examine real facts instead of those manufactured for the purpose of deception, greed, and power brokering. Cardinal Raymond Burke sees this clearly and recently provided Catholics with a document entitled “Moral Questions Regarding Voting.” He wrote, in part, “We must further consider whether it is reasonable to hope that a candidate in question will, at least, hear the voice of a rightly formed conscience on questions like procured abortion, sexual reassignment, and religious persecution.”
And that is really the most urgent question of all because a properly formed conscience would require an understanding of what is really cruel, what is always inhumane, and what is therefore abhorrent in a civilized society.
Cruelty, inhumanity, barbarism. They are words that accurately explain what the act of abortion is, even in this era of political correctness and gamesmanship.
Murder is always wrong, and one wonders why not a single candidate is willing to say so.
“You are so cruel” are words a preborn baby might say to the morally blind. That is, if she weren’t condemned to death.
