Celebrating death.

Yale’s Reproductive Rights Action League has planned a series of events this week to celebrate the 34th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortions.

As abortion has become enshrined as a right, now we have an unholy day (unholiday?) in its honor.

I found this part very interesting:

On Wednesday, there will be a screening of three documentaries that follow three pro-choice Yale students as they interview the pro-life “sidewalk counselors” that protest outside of Planned Parenthood and Women’s Health Services. Emma Clune ’07, one of the filmmakers, said while she still believes these "sidewalk counselors" are "misguided," she empathizes with the strength of their convictions.

"If you feel like abortion is a genocide in America, you better be out there on the sidewalk, you better be protesting on the sidewalk because what else can you do?” Clune said. “I admire their willingness to step up to what they see as an evil even though I fundamentally disagree."

This is a pretty bold thing to say, but it's true. If we truly believe that abortion is murder, how can we stand by silently and let it continue. This is something that many Christians (including myself) need to take to heart.

But then that slight glimmer of hope was followed by this lovely conclusion:

On Thursday, the Yale Medical Students for Choice will host workshop on manual vacuum aspiration for medical students, using a papaya as a uterine model. Manual vacuum aspiration is a surgical abortion method that uses a syringe to remove the fetus from a woman’s uterus. Merritt Evans MED ’09 said she thought it was important to have the workshop because the procedure can be used for a variety of different purposes - including miscarriage management and the treatment of a failed medical abortion or ectopic pregnancy - and is inconsistently taught in medical school.

While the workshop is targeted towards medical students, undergraduates are also invited to attend.

"The reason I wanted to include other people is that it is such a simple procedure, but the media attention around it - makes this an emotionally traumatic and a complicated thing," Evans said. "It’s just to be like, ‘Here is what actually happens, here is what the medical procedure is like, this is what an aborted yolk sac looks like.’ It looks like a piece of cotton."

Gag.

For some real facts about the holocaust of abortion, check out the USCCB's Second Look Project.