Liberty Minute May 12 2014

Those who defend the practice of discretionary child-killing generally insist that abortion is a matter of tragic necessity for women who chose that option only after grave reflection. This claim was dispelled by the actions of Emily Letts, an abortion clinic escort and horror movie actress who videotaped her recent abortion.

In an essay written by Letts for Cosmopolitan magazine, she made it clear that the decision to destroy her developing child was made for reasons of pure convenience: She had become pregnant as a result of a casual sexual encounter, and didn't want to be encumbered with a child. Her decision to make a video record of the procedure that killed her baby was intended to provide ?inspiration? to other women, presumably to provide more business for the child-killing industry.

After the lethal deed was accomplished, Letts kept a sonogram of the destroyed child as a memento. This was an odd decision if she regarded the child as a trivial wad of tissue: People who undergo tonsillectomies don't keep X-rays of their inflamed tonsils.

Some radical feminists have referred to abortion as a sacrament. Emily Letts validated that view by displaying the same murderous indifference exhibited by ancient Canaanites who sacrificed their children to Molech.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.