{"id":1389276,"date":"2022-03-19T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389276"},"modified":"2022-03-19T07:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T11:14:48","slug":"lizzos-vision-of-progress-includes-disposing-of-the-most-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lizzos-vision-of-progress-includes-disposing-of-the-most-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo\u2019s Vision Of \u2018Progress\u2019 Includes Disposing Of The Most Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flizzos-vision-of-progress-includes-disposing-of-the-most-vulnerable%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389276&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Singer Lizzo railed against Texas\u2019 abortion ban this week, indicating that it was a\u00a0\u201cregressive\u201d attack on long-established access to the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not proud to rep Texan politics right now,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lizzo-slams-texas-anti-trans-143323600.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall\">reportedly said<\/a> Sunday at the SXSW film festival. \u201cThere are very regressive laws being passed.\u201d The 33-year-old entertainer pointed to Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s fight against hormone therapy for minors, and attacked the state\u2019s heartbeat law, which she described as \u201catrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In making those comments, Lizzo may have unknowingly honed in on a critical question for the party that claims to champion human rights: Has the so-called \u201cprogressive\u201d movement lost its humanity?<\/p>\n<p>For Lizzo, progress and freedom entail politicians staying out of a woman\u2019s uterus. \u201cMind your business,\u201d she said. \u201cStay out of my body. This is not political,\u201d But it would be a mistake to define \u201cprogress\u201d as throwing off the shackles inhibiting our freedom to do what thou wilt.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"abortion-is-regressive\">Abortion is Regressive <\/h2>\n<p>Progressivism itself was born in the excesses of industry and sought to use the law as a means of restricting how much business could exploit human beings through practices like child labor. By contrast, today\u2019s progressives make the <a href=\"https:\/\/rhiaventures.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Hidden-Value_The-Business-Case-for-Reproductive-Health.pdf\">\u201cbusiness case\u201d<\/a> for abortion and browbeat corporations into supporting cost-effective slaughter\u00a0 \u2014 whether that manifests in Planned Parenthood\u2019s budget, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fauci-nih-funding-fetal-tissue-studies\">millions in federal grant<\/a> money, or the balance sheets of major corporations.<\/p>\n<p>A more accurate framing would portray liberal abortion access as regressive since it evokes an ignorance that preceded advances in detecting the humanity of unborn children. Abortion, as pro-choice advocates will note,<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/abortion-is-as-old-as-pregnancy-4-000-years-of-reproductive-rights-history\/\"> isn\u2019t a recent development<\/a> for civilized society. Neither is <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/northman-on-40-week-abortion-bill-infant-would-be-delivered-and-then-a-discussion-would-ensue-between-the-physicians-and-the-mother\/\">letting disabled or unwanted children die after birth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is new is the level of sophistication we\u2019ve employed for ending life despite having an unprecedented window into the reality of its existence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly 50 years of scientific advancement have literally unveiled the humanity of the unborn child,\u201d Dr. Tara Sander Lee of the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mississippi-tate-reeves-science-abortion-supreme-court\">told Fox News<\/a> last year. The Harvard-trained physician added that before Roe \u201cthe unborn could barely be seen inside the womb via grainy black and white ultrasound images while now-debunked science claimed the unborn couldn\u2019t feel pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Roe, advancements in fetal ultrasound developed rapidly, paving the way to see the unborn with clarity, allowing the diagnosis of fetal malformations with more accuracy and surgical repair of some conditions inside the womb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Decades of scientific observation after Roe have led to a slew of pro-life laws that find their basis in biological facts. Texas\u2019 six-week ban is one of many that have been passed with the justification that at that point in a pregnancy, babies harbor one of the most basic signs of life \u2014 a heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>Bleeding-heart social justice warriors should ask themselves: Is it progressive to poison an innocent child\u2019s vital organ or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\/\">crush the skull<\/a> of someone who has their own, unique set of DNA? Never mind the dehumanizing process of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/where-desensitization-to-killing-leads-poc-rooms-fetal-parts-for-sale\/\">sifting through their body parts<\/a> in order to ensure an arm or aorta weren\u2019t left behind in the process of dismemberment.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"discovering-the-womb\">Discovering the Womb<\/h2>\n<p>The surgical precision of abortion procedures betrays any pretense that \u201ccardiac pulsing,\u201das the media describes it, is just incidental to a particular \u201cclump of cells\u2019\u201d existence. Abortionists specifically inject digoxin into fetal hearts in order to precipitate what they call \u201cfetal demise.\u201d Abortion\u2019s mechanistic features \u2013 the surgical dismemberment, heart-stopping injections, and flesh-tearing suction \u2013 are all part of an effort to intentionally end the life of another human being.<\/p>\n<p>As if to make the brutality more obvious, abortionists utilize ultrasound technology to ensure precision in how they dispose of the fetus\u2019 body. That same technology, however, has made converts out of at least one former Planned Parenthood director (Abby Johnson) as well as a former abortionist and co-founder of NARAL. After seeing an ultrasound-guided abortion, Dr. Bernard Nathanson turned away from the practice and produced a documentary highlighting the procedure\u2019s depravity.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gON-8PP6zgQ\">\u201cSilent Scream,\u201d<\/a> his 1984 film put on full display the flailing and apparently desperate movements of fetal life encountering an abortion instrument. Johnson similarly described seeing an 13-week fetus attempt to flee from suction. For some reason, though, those visuals aren\u2019t among the many in progressive media that are apparently used to elicit sympathy for the downtrodden.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzo\u2019s vision for progress harkens back to a time when physicians blindly jabbed a woman\u2019s uterus or grasped inside of her for fetal body parts. The darkness shrouding abortions is what presumably allowed Nathanson to be responsible for 75,000 of them and Johnson to pursue purported quotas for the number of abortions at her clinic.<\/p>\n<p>What appeared to be mere numbers quickly became flesh when she stood in front of the screen of an ultrasound.\u201dNothing prepared me for what I saw on the screen \u2013 an unborn baby fighting back, desperate to move away from the suction \u2026 The last thing I saw was a spine twirling around in the mother\u2019s womb before succumbing to the force of the suction,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/abby-johnson-planned-parenthood-rnc\">said<\/a> during her speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-choice advocates like the American College of Obstetricians Gynecologists (ACOG) have framed the debate over fetal pain in terms of human perception. As one abortionist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mississippi-tate-reeves-science-abortion-supreme-court\">noted<\/a>, fetuses don\u2019t start developing the thalamocortical fibers for processing pain until 23 weeks. Moreover, ACOG says, the \u201cperception of pain requires more than just the mechanical transmission and reception of signals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Dr. Stuart Derbyshire, who previously dismissed \u201cfetal pain\u201d as a \u201cmisnomer,\u201d penned a paper in which he suggested that the prevailing consensus of pain at 24 weeks could be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he evidence,\u201d Derbyshire wrote in his 2020 paper, \u201cand a balanced reading of that evidence, points towards an immediate and unreflective pain experience mediated by the developing function of the nervous system from as early as 12 weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"progress-for-everyone-except-the-unborn\">Progress for Everyone Except the Unborn<\/h2>\n<p>Amid the various conditions that progressives lament in modern America, are there any more oppressive than the potential pain and violence a 12-week-old fetus faces at abortion clinics? How about a fetus at six weeks of pregnancy, when they\u2019ve only begun to have the chance at a beating heart?<\/p>\n<p>In the last century, American feminists have seen an explosion of wealth and technology that\u2019s fueled their ascent in social and economic structures. More recently, other minorities touted by the left have also seen historic levels of purported progress. For example, immigration levels are at a record high while the cap on refugee admissions has been raised to its highest level in U.S. history. The U.S. Supreme Court has also declared a \u201cright\u201d to \u201cgay marriage\u201d while taxpayer money funds the \u201ctransitions\u201d of those who believe they are a different gender.<\/p>\n<p>But the unborn \u2013 in all their helplessness \u2013 continue to face new and bolder threats from politicians, who want to not only legalize late-term procedures but fund them with taxpayer dollars as well. Despite what progressives may argue, the most marginalized, oppressed group you can support isn\u2019t the men leading our cities\u2019 pride parades or the plus-sized black women who are currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/lizzo-cover-october-2020\">en vogue<\/a>. Instead, it\u2019s the unborn \u2013 who can\u2019t even keep their hearts beating after the powerful insist on annihilation.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Sam Dorman is a writer based in the Washington D.C. metro area. His work has also appeared in Fox News Digital, The Washington Free Beacon, Yahoo News, and other outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Lizzo railed against Texas\u2019 abortion ban this week, indicating that it was a\u00a0\u201cregressive\u201d attack on long-established access to the procedure. \u201cI\u2019m not proud to rep Texan politics right now,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}