{"id":14902,"date":"2022-08-27T03:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T10:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=14902"},"modified":"2022-08-27T03:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T10:45:47","slug":"aborting-objections-so-hard-even-margaret-would-be-astounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/aborting-objections-so-hard-even-margaret-would-be-astounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Aborting objections so hard even Margaret would be astounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word around the campfire is some folks were none too happy with stuff I wrote in the August Email Players issue about abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Although, technically, I did not &#8220;write&#8221; it.<\/p>\n<p>It was merely a transcript of a former Planned Parenthood doctor\u2019s testimony to The House Judiciary Committee that was televised, who has performed over 1200 procedures. And it simply described in \u201cplain English\u201d what it looks, feels, and sounds like to pull out baby parts limb-by-limb during a second trimester procedure (which was the time Willis not only had a heartbeat, but I remember him keeping Stefania up moving &amp; kicking in the middle of the night, hiccuping a lot, etc), from the clamp-like instrument with teeth used all the way to the the white liquid (the brain) draining out on the table. And, if it was a particularly good day with Margaret Sanger smiling down upon the doctor and blessing his work\u2026 there would be a little face staring back at him on the table while he did the deed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, none of it was my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>And in fact, nothing I wrote argued anything.<\/p>\n<p>It simply \u201cwas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ve been told that wasn\u2019t a \u201cchild\u201d the doctor was describing.<\/p>\n<p>Just a fetus or potential human or something.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, I\u2019m no more a biologist than Supreme Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is \u2014 although I am pretty sure I know what a woman is \u2014 but I think that\u2019s bull shyt, and that it is a child.<\/p>\n<p>And you know who agrees with me?<\/p>\n<p>The President of the United States himself.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a few months ago my President said during a Q&amp;A on live TV:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cI mean, so the idea that we\u2019re going to make a judgment that is going to say that no one can make the judgment to choose to abort a child based on a decision by the Supreme Court, I think, goes way overboard.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe knows\u2026<\/p>\n<p>All right enough embryonic fluid for the soul.<\/p>\n<p>On to the business&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To check out the Email Players newsletter go here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word around the campfire is some folks were none too happy with stuff I wrote in the August Email Players issue about abortion. Although, technically, I did not &#8220;write&#8221; it. It was merely a transcript of a former Planned Parenthood doctor\u2019s testimony to The House Judiciary Committee that was televised, who has performed over 1200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-inner-game"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}