Yes, People Believe Abortion Is Murder

The Federalist ^ | 08/12/2014 | Rachel Lu

[SeekAndFind]

Writing at Mother Jones, Kevin Drum poses a great question. Actually, he has a couple of questions:

Do anti-abortion activists really think abortion is murder? Or is their opposition merely an expression of their broad discomfort with modern sexual and gender mores?

I appreciate Drum’s forthrightness. A lot of liberals wonder why pro-lifers rally and lobby and stand in the rain outside abortion clinics: can it really be that they care about babies? No, pro-lifers probably do these things because they have old-fashioned views about sex. They know that abortion has enabled modern women to lead a “sexually liberated” lifestyle. And they want to stop it because they do, in fact, want to see wayward women “punished with a baby.”

It’s rare for someone to pose the question as directly as Drum has. But I know he’s not alone in thinking this way. I see the contempt with which liberals accuse conservatives of caring about children “only before they’re born.” Obviously that smear reflects other policy disagreements as well, but it still speaks to a real skepticism about the authenticity of conservative concern for unborn life.

Drumroll, Please

Okay, then. Are you ready for this, Mother Jones readers? I’m going to answer the question.

Yes. Pro-lifers really believe that abortion is murder, i.e., the unjust killing of an innocent human being.

Why would liberals doubt this? I’ll just cut to the chase and admit right now: I think it’s partly just bad faith. It can’t feel good to be the guy in favor of killing (at parental convenience) something that really does look quite a lot like, you know, a human baby.

[Graybeard58]

Affirming what you said by pointing out Jeremiah as an example, that unborn babies have a soul, as you stated, only in Jeremiah’s case, it was God Himself stating it.

I really don’t see how any other thing could be read into it

[cloudmountain]

That post had already faded from my mind.
But, thank you for the quote anyway. It was uplifting.

[Slyfox]

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[Balding_Eagle]

Do Pro-aborts really think abortion is a legitimate form of birth control?

In keeping with the theme of the original column it would be correct to say "Do Pro-aborts really think murder is a legitimate form of birth control?"

[Theodore R.]

For them - its all about the sex. No consequence - be as freaky as you want as often as you want with whoever you want.

Now you have described the American people to a T.