Abortionist
Says He Does Abortions Because of a “Life-Altering Conversion” to Christianity
Katie
Yoder Feb 8, 2017 | 7:57PM Washington, DC
One
abortionist is revealing his abortion religion – and one New York Times
writer couldn’t get enough of it.
In a piece
published Wednesday, New York Times Magazine columnist Ana Marie Cox
interviewed Willie J. Parker, a Mississippi abortionist and former Planned
Parenthood medical director, on his upcoming Life’s Work memoir.
During the interview, Parker pointed to his faith as the reason he performs
abortions. And while abortion is “life-ending,” he added, it isn’t “killing a
person” – just a “human entity.”
From the
very beginning, Cox hyped that Parker’s book “is rooted” by his “moral and
spiritual argument in favor of abortion rights.”
Before
working in the abortion industry, Parker said he experienced a “life-altering”
“conversion” that led him to believe that, as a Christian, he should perform
abortions, instead of vice versa.
“I
needed to convert from a religious understanding that left me paralyzed
to act on my deepest sense of connection to one that empowered me to do what
I felt to be the right thing,” he told
Cox.
But, as
Cox pointed out, Parker admits in his book that abortion is a “life-ending
process.” Parker didn’t deny it; but his definition of human “life” wasn’t
synonymous with a human “person.”
“Life
is a process, not an event,” he argued, and so, “A fetus is not a person;
it’s a human entity.” He
added, “If I thought I was killing a person, I wouldn’t
do abortions.”
So, “in
the moral scheme of things,” he said, “I don’t hold fetal life and the life of
a woman equally.” Both have “value,” he conceded, but “I find myself unable to
demote [a woman’s] aspirations because of the aspirations that someone else has
for the fetus that she’s carrying.”
In their
conversation, Cox also referenced Parker’s “verbicaine” method during abortions
where he tries to “lighten the mood” through conversation despite the
“narrative that makes abortion seem morbid and tragic.” She also brought up
Parker’s love of football, a sport that he called “larger than life.” (Ending a
life is OK. But a football game? That’s another question.)
Cox also
asked Parker about his “connection between your heritage as a descendant of
slaves and the idea that abortion is ultimately about ownership of a body.”
(Well, that’s true – ownership of an unborn baby’s body, that is.)
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“I
come from a heritage of people who know what it’s like to have your life
controlled by somebody else,” he
responded. But, instead of the unborn, Parker meant
women, because “if you don’t control your reproduction, you don’t control
anything else about your life.”
But the
“biggest insult,” he told Cox at another point, is the “notion that there’s
such a thing as a black genocide, as if the people who care about abortion
really care about black women and black babies.”
In her
last question, Cox lost all pretense as an unbiased interviewer. “I can’t help mentioning that you’re not married,” she
said before asking, “Is that a choice on your part?
Because you seem pretty cool!”
On that
note, maybe it’s a blessing in disguise if The New York Times forgets
about reviewing stories
telling the truth about the horrors of the abortion industry.
This
isn’t the first time Parker has appeared in the pages of The Times. In
2015, the Opinion Pages published
his piece, “Why I Provide Abortions,” where he insisted that abortion
“respond[s] to our patients’ needs” and therefore expresses “the deepest
level of love that you can have for another person.” He has also appeared in Cosmopolitan,
where he compared
a Planned Parenthood executive to “Jesus before crucifixion.”
LifeNews Note: Katie Yoder writes for Newsbusters,
where this originally
appeared.
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