Posted on 07/16/2011 5:12:23 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
There’s an odd history here. In 1999, IPA contributor Ron Brunton admitted: “Since the first suggestion of a link was noted by Japanese researchers in 1957, 25 out of the 31 studies that have been completed have shown some relationship between breast cancer and induced abortion.”
He also conceded, “But the people who are gung-ho about the hazards of passive smoking are remarkably cautious when it comes to the evidence linking breast cancer and abortion. They seem to fear that anything which might reflect poorly on the safety of abortion will give aid and comfort to the wrong kind of people.”
Alas, Brunton couldn’t bring himself to defend life, offering this Orwellian argument: “But whether abortion should be legal or not is a moral issue. Even if the risk of the operation was considerably greater than it now appears, on its own this would be insufficient grounds for banning it.”
“Perhaps” concluded the…libertarian, “activists will only be willing to publicise such information if multi-national corporations take over the abortion industry.”
But aborting a useless eater with a gun to the heads of taxpayers, or scissoring a baby with a privatized scissors, is still a scissoring, in any language.
It’s why I applaud America’s unapologetic prolife movement, and conservative Catholics, in general, the modern abolitionists of our age.
It’s why I wish more free-speech libertarians would run to protect censored babies’ rights, as opposed to Big Abortion’s.
It’s why I believe that the photograph I viewed of a 22-week-old baby burned by saline, is a sign of tyranny and appeasement, thanks in part to narcissistic adults-first libertarians.
“But whether abortion should be legal or not is a moral issue”? Right. But would IPA contributors abandon cultural relativism if an abortionist jammed scissors into the back of their harder skulls?
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