{"id":35248,"date":"2019-02-03T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35248"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:50:12","slug":"oh-and-then-theres-this-infanticide-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35248","title":{"rendered":"Oh, and then there&#8217;s this &#8216;infanticide&#8217; matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VA Gov  Ralph Northam Discusses 3rd Trimester Abortion Bill\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UB_MZPTrbpU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the nation gnashes its teeth over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam&#8217;s alleged posing in a racist picture that appeared in his medical school yearbook, there this other matter.<\/p>\n<p>Northam went on a radio talk show and appeared to suggest that &#8220;infanticide&#8221; is an acceptable medical practice if it is done a woman who gives birth consults with physicians, clergy and her spouse.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! I cannot stomach the idea of anyone failing to condemn such an act.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is whether a third-trimester abortion should occur while the mother is &#8220;dilating,&#8221; and &#8220;ready to give birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Northam, whose other day job is as a physician, has uttered a disgusting and disgraceful policy view.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who are &#8220;pro-choice&#8221; but &#8220;anti-abortion&#8221; should be repulsed in the extreme.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the nation gnashes its teeth over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam&#8217;s alleged posing in a racist picture that appeared in his medical school yearbook, there this other matter. Northam went on a radio talk show and appeared to suggest that &#8220;infanticide&#8221; is an acceptable medical practice if it is done a woman who gives birth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, and then there&#8217;s this &#8216;infanticide&#8217; matter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[122,8356,8351],"class_list":["post-35248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-abortion","tag-partial-birth-abortion","tag-ralph-northam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35249,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35248\/revisions\/35249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}