Having it both ways

I try to avoid the topic of abortion here for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is the emotions this debate elicit when it is discussed.. I must take a time-out from that today because I just can't stand the hyprocisy any longer.

THIS story makes my head want to explode into tiny little pieces. In it, we are told that no doctor can be found to administer the lethal dose that would execute one pathetic loser named Michael Morales, consistent with California death penalty and execution statutes.

A little research on this case will tell you that Morales was convicted of rape and murder for his part in the death of a 17 year old girl in San Joaquin County California back in January of 1981. As usual, after 25 years in prison at San Quentin, and with time running out, this scum pulled out all the stops after all his previous appeals had been denied, and finally found a US District Judge(Jeremy Fogel) to hear an appeal that the current lethal injection method (3 shots-one to anesthetize, one to paralyze, and one to stop the heart) was a violation of the US Constitution's 8th Amendment which protects against cruel and unusual punishment.

While his execution was upheld, this District Judge (in his infinite judicial activism wisdom) ordered that Prison officials either bring in Doctors to ensure Morales is properly anesthetized, OR skip shot 2 and shot 3, and simply overdose him on a sedative until he dies. Atta boy Judge...rewrite the science of execution chemicals and just let him have some happy juice til his heart and brain explode...but at least he won't feel it! Thank goodness.

Oh, did I mention how long it took for Morales' victim to succumb to the 23 plus hammer blows to the skull...that she was in and out of consciousness all through the beating and the rape and the stabbing? Did I mention that he raped her AFTER the hammer blows...and after he raped her she was still alive so he had to stab her in the chest a few times just to make sure?

Let's not be mean to him JUST because of what he did to her. After all, execution is SUPPOSED to be the carriage of justice, not social retribution, right?

So why does this have me steamed about abortion?

A Wikipedia read will give you the cold hard sterile description of the Partial Birth Abortion procedure, technically known as "Intact Dilation and Extraction". A read at the National Right to Life website puts it in a little more human context though, and leaves you feeling a little sick inside. Another website puts it in REAL LIFE FIRST PERSON perspective. And I quote:

" I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."

Note to class: I am against abortion in almost every case except Maternal Death Risk.

Having said that, I am disgusted that Doctors can't bring themselves to kill Morales because their medical oath prevents them from doing anything but IMPROVE a person's condition, yet they seem to have no problem performing abortions...especially this "Intact Dilation and Extraction", or so-called Partial Birth Abortion procedure, on unborn babies. I'll get no answer, but I feel better for saying this is all a load of activism crap from the Left who has mastered the ability to be FOR Life by being against the Death Penalty while being FOR Death by being in favor of Abortion.

And when you put all this aside, a court order to execute a convicted rapist and murder is not being followed...doesn't that make SOMEONE in contempt of court?