While we’re talking about Northam, I read what he’d said that set all the wingnuts off earlier in the week, and I gotta say their reaction makes it utterly clear that they have ZERO empathy for parents, or indeed for the nonviable fetus Northam was talking about.

Here’s what he said:

“[Third trimester abortions are] done in cases where there may be severe deformities. There may be a fetus that’s nonviable. So in this particular example, if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen,” Northam, a pediatric neurosurgeon, told Washington radio station WTOP. “The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired. And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

So, in their zeal to require birth under any and all circumstances, they would require the doctors to keep the nonviable fetus “alive” for as long as possible by whatever means, no matter how much pain that might inflict, on the baby or the family, no matter how futile it would ultimately be.

Northam’s a pediatric neurosurgeon, so I’m guessing he’s seen his share of babies born with no chance of surviving, but not dead yet. It happens, and since forever, they’ve been kept comfortable till they inevitably die. That’s clearly what Northam’s talking about.