When The Devil Says 'Don't Look'

Abortion and the disingenuous language surrounding the issue

This is the June 6th Properly Subversive report.

Iran still doesn’t have a nuclear weapon, there are fewer criminal illegal aliens on the streets than last week, and a soaring U.S. job market shows the economy is not going to hell in a handbasket anytime soon.

Not a bad end to the week, in which we also say goodbye to our night shift interns from Loyola Chicago today and welcome a new crew from Dickinson State University.

‘Extra Credit’

The Loyola kids, among regular duties monitoring the news for Properly Subversive’s worldwide journalism network, were also asked to explain in contemporary terms this quote from G. K. Chesterton:

“If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.”

They left this short but brilliant note.

Thank you, Properly Subversive, for allowing us the privilege of this journalistic experience. As for your “extra credit” assignment of expanding upon G.K. Chesterson’s quote, we offer you this modern description of abortion:

“A procedure performed by a healthcare professional to remove pregnancy tissue from the uterus."

What that really means, if we were to give it the kind of scrutiny Chesterson says we must, is this:

“The ‘pregnancy tissue’ is sucked out of the womb, body part by body part, with a powerful vacuum. Often the size of the baby requires the spinal cord be snipped, arms and legs severed and the skull crushed for efficient extraction.“

Thanks for the job experience. It was fun. Please drop by the school when you are in Chicago.

— The Loyola Interns

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