Sorry God has the final disapproval.
Posted on 08/21/2014 7:04:11 AM PDT by wagglebee
In a piece for The Washington Post, blogger Carter Eskew recently argued, “It’s time for a new dialogue on abortion.”
Eskew, director at The Glover Park Group (which lobbies for Planned Parenthood) and former strategist for Al Gore, wrote in response to his colleague Janet Harris, who insisted abortion is never immoral or “difficult.” “Control over one’s reproduction is a deeply affirmative value,” he approved, and “It’s time to assert it.”
Citing Harris, Eskew affirmed, “She couldn’t be more right” and added, “the current political dialogue is even worse than she documents.” “The pro-choice movement,” he lamented, “has been on the defensive” while the pro-life movement is “chipping away at a woman’s freedom.”
Abortion advocates “can’t and won’t win,” he continued, “because they don’t have an affirmative argument.”
But, surprisingly, Eskew got one thing right: “The problem is ‘choice’ will never trump ‘life.’ Choice is valuable, but life is precious. As long as there is no competing affirmative value for abortion, then life will always win.”
That sentiment quickly disappeared as Eskew found his fix: the “small, brave cohort of women” who “affirm the positive value of abortion in their own lives” for “abortion rights, centered on not just freedom of ‘choice’ but on the benefits of the outcome of choice.”
While “the right to control one’s body [which, you know, includes any other body within it] is basic,” he explained, “it remains abstract.” He continued, “More concrete are personal benefits, such as waiting until one is willing and able to care for a child, and societal benefits” for women, including finishing school and entering the workforce.
Convenience, in other words. Think of killing your child as a time-management tool – maybe even a handy app that gets you through your busy schedule with a minimum of hassle.
As far as the “safe, legal and rare” argument, Eskew complained abortion advocates, “might as well wave the white flag because implicit in this formulation is that abortion is bad and shameful.” Whelp, at least he has the media to back him up (see: The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Salon – and even the nets).
He concluded by comparing abortion to “gay rights.” “For years,” he cried, “the public dialogue on gays did not comport with the private reality” and “The laws treated homosexuality as deviant, when it was common; as shameful, when it was human.”
“The gap between repression and reality was bound to be breached,” he finished, and “the same evolution looms on the abortion issue.”
Except that this “repression” is connected to the “reality:” abortion terminates the lives of the most vulnerable – or, in his own words, “Choice is valuable, but life is precious.”
There is NO BENEFIT to murdering an innocent human being and adoption has always been available for those who cannot care for their babies.
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These people are too evil for words.
This isn’t news; this is normal MSM rhetoric. Now show me a liberal MSM outlet that no longer sides with the anti-lifers. Now THAT would be news.
What does a man know about no guilt over having an abortion?
More faggotry masquarading as "honest debate". #THECONSENSUSISINNOWSITDOWNANDSHUTUP
Wow, what a really, really stupid argument.
Only things done by humans CAN be shameful. Animals are incapable of shame. And many, many things humans do are, and should be, shameful.
Sure there is, including those he mentions.
I respectfully suggest that what you are trying to say is that the horrific non-benefit of killing an innocent human greatly outweighs those benefits.
Abortionists are baby killers, period. And one day, there will be firing squads
There is nothing in the least wrong with that statement.
Supporting abortion deeply affirms you believe in doing or supporting evil by killing or approving the slaughter of the most innocent among us that can not defend themselves.
Yes it is a deeply affirmative value in total support of evil. Word games do not make it any less evil.
Abortion is a satanic blood offering, and is the sacrament of the left.
In other words, if you don't want a baby, don't do the baby-making thing. Gol-LEE, these people are stupid.
Like Mark Shea says, "Sin makes you stupid."
women's rights,
"choice,"
freedom or responsibility.
It's about one thing and one thing only
Money!
The Abortion Industry "donates" a percentage of every abortion performed to the Democrat Party.
It's about money!
Abortionists are hired hit-men for Democrats!
Sorry God has the final disapproval.
It's a choice that an muslim makes. Choice is very precious to the muslim thug.
Nothing affirmative for the baby in the deal.
This is part if the ongoing “normalization” of abortion. These people figure, we’ve won every other social issue the last 50 years, why can’t we make abortion as socially sacrosanct (as opposed to legally sacrosanct) as the rest?
But abortion can’t be normalized any more than Islamic beheading can be normalized. People recognize instinctively that abortion is deeply wrong, and all the campaigns against “abortion shaming” won’t change that.
i wonder what would happen if the woman had to ‘confirm’ the success of the ‘procedure’ by certifying the results via visual inspection?
then again i guess i don’t.
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