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.

[B4Ranch]

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

[bimboeruption]

I think abortion is PREMEDITATED MURDER.

[DManA]

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

[yarddog]

Abortion is one of those things which seems so obvious that I can’t believe there is any debate.

Of course it is murder. How could it possibly be anything else?

[cloudmountain]

Fetuses have heartbeats.
More importantly, they have souls.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— Of course it is murder. How could it possibly be anything else? -—

If it’s just a blob of tissue, why are they so intent on killing it?

[GeronL]

Tell them it is settled science, those are human babies

[BeadCounter]

Amen to all here.

[lightman]

I think abortion is PREMEDITATED MURDER.

Amen.

[yarddog]

It is not only premeditated, it is committed against the most innocent of human life.

[Louis Foxwell]

Liberation? From what? Commitment, responsibility, compassion, dignity, the joy of birth, loving a baby. Yes, that is what we are liberated from.
Liberation? For what? A self unencumbered by the fruit of the womb. Me first and only me.
Is that freedom? It is a curse, a lie preached from pulpits of evil.
The death of innocents is the primary work of satan.
When we no longer desire to protect the lives of babies we are at one with those who cut off the heads of children and mount them on posts.
We have become the minions of horror.

[Graybeard58]

“More importantly, they have souls.”

Jeremiah 1:

4 Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

[Theodore R.]

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

Yes, that's the line the American people have embraced for decades now. It's not just a line, but a lie, but the American people don't know that.

[Theodore R.]

Do you think the women are deciding themselves to kill their offspring, or is the men behind them pushing them to do so. That way the men can avoid making child support payments. It’s all about sex and money, but the American people are too shallow to understand.

[DManA]

The American People have not had the power to do anything about this since the Supreme Court removed their power to act.

I don’t believe they’ve embraced it.

[Theodore R.]

There’s “debate” because the souls of men and women are dark. Thomas Paine’s old quote comes to mind: “the times that try men’s souls”.

[Theodore R.]

Even “pro-life” people continue to support pro-abortion candidates all the time, whether it was a John Tower and Lloyd M. Bentsen in TX or a Mary Landrieu in LA.

[Scotswife]

The way the question is posed reveals the FOCUS of the Culture of Death. Sex.
For them - its all about the sex.
No consequence - be as freaky as you want as often as you want with whoever you want.

If you oppose the destruction of human life that results from this sexual activity - then clearly you must be a judgey scoldy prude who doesn’t want anyone to have any fun

[cloudmountain]

What is your point to me?