Some of them anyway: "Pro-abortion New Mexico governor shocked as Democrats sink bill to kill born babies," a bill that would have legally authorized infanticide. It passed the NM House but failed in the Senate, where Democrats hold a decisive majority.
No one was more surprised by Thursday night's vote than Governor (and abortion extremist) Michelle Lujan Grisham (D). After the House had sent the bill on with a 40-29 vote, the Democrats' stranglehold on the Senate was supposed to mean that the New York-style H.B. 51 was a done deal. But despite the party's 26-16 edge, the vote fell far from party lines. In a stunning victory for pro-lifers, eight Democrats crossed over — killing a bill that would have legalized infanticide and given abortionists the right to destroy babies up to the moment of birth.
Governor Grisham, who hadn't counted on the intense lobbying from pastors and state conservatives, was astounded. "That... it was even a debate, much less a difficult vote for some senators, is inexplicable to me," she told reporters. By a 24–18 tally, Democratic Senators Pete Campos, Carlos Cisneros, Richard Martinez, George Muñoz, Senate President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen, Ramos, Clemente "Meme" Sanchez, and John Arthur Smith proved what a complicated issue abortion is becoming — even in liberal states.
Infanticide has been argued as justified and morally unobjectionable for many years now. As I documented in 2012, "First, we kill all the newborns."
Academic philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva—shockingly working in Australia, a land where commonsense was once held sacred—have written a peer-reviewed paper in which they say that killing newborns is A-OK, and even in some cases to be encouraged.Much more at the link.
Their “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” is in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
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