No Runny Eggs

In case you missed Shoebox’s post below, go read it. There is an expansion or two based on what Ed Morrissey found, including a confirmation of the veracity of the YouTubed conversation Shoebox and Erick Erickson embedded:

Guy Benson not only tracked down the audio to the Chicago Tribune, but he came up with this little gem from the transcripts of the Illinois Legislature (specifically, pages 32-34, from the 4/22/2002 session):

[T]he only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made the assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, is being "” that "” that labor is being induced, that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, and in fact this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that the physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical procedures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.

Now, if "” if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I "” I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects that doctors feel that they would already be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding a "” an additional doctor who the has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.

Now, if that’s the case –and "” and I know some of us feel very strongly one way or the other on that issue "” that’s fine, but I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if these children are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure they’re looked after.

Ed goes on to point out that the above statement came after it was revealed that the doctors at the mis-named Christ Hospital were allowing babies born alive during abortion procedures to die without any care.

To steal from another movie…

Denver, we have a problem. We have a main bus B undervolt. We’ve got a lot of thruster activity here, Denver. There’s another master alarm, Denver. We’ve got a computer restart. We’ve got a ping light. We’ve got multiple cautions and warnings, Denver. We’ve gotta reset and restart.