Posted on 02/16/2018 11:37:32 AM PST by Morgana
As America reels from another mass shooting in Florida, one abortion activist used the tragedy to claim that fewer mass shootings would happen if more babies were aborted.
Journalist Becky Griffin’s tweets about abortion and the mass shooting went viral Thursday.
“Woman puts baby up for adoption, he grows up to be a violent young man who will spend the rest of his life in prison for a mass murder. Tell me more about how abortions are wrong,” she wrote Thursday.
The tweet is a reference to alleged mass murderer Nikolas Cruz’s background as an adopted child. According to the AP, he was living with friends after both of his adoptive parents died. Neighbors said his mother, Lynda Cruz, died Nov. 1, and Cruz had mental health problems.
Cruz allegedly killed 17 people and injured 13 others Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the report states.
Griffin quickly received backlash for her tweets about adoption and abortion. Responding to her critics, Griffin directed “trolls” to an old article claiming that abortions reduce crime. Experts have refuted this claim, made popular in the book “Freakonomics,” numerous times.
While Griffin later clarified that she does not oppose adoption and did not mean to insult any adoptees, she continued to assert that some children should be aborted.
People on both sides of the abortion debate quickly criticized Griffin for using the slaughter of 17 innocent lives to push abortion.
Among them was popular conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.
Abortion activist and writer Robyn Marty also criticized the tweet.
The solution to ending such horrific, massive violence as the Parkland shooting is troublingly uncertain. Politicians and average Americans will continue debating solutions for years.
But one thing is clear. Violence against children in the womb cannot be the answer to violence against children outside the womb. We have no way of knowing if a child in the womb will be a revolutionary like Steve Jobs or a violent criminal. What we do know is every human life has value, and every child, born and unborn, deserves to live and grow free from violence.
The trick is picking the right ones.
Sometimes I wonder if the baby-torturing & killing Carthoginians were more moral than modern day death-worshipping Americans.
:-D
That’s some amazingly (Fill in Blank) logic.
If more kids went to church and thought that killing someone else would send them to Hell for eternity they might think twice.
That worked for the previous 2000 years in Christian nations, too bad we walked away from it.
And just how does she plan on distinguishing the good babies from the future shooters while they are still in the womb?
If there were only a test for Liberalism in the womb
Becky Griffin is a remarkably stupid woman.
Wife and I adopted two children as infants. They were loved as much as their seven younger siblings. However, I do agree with the author that some children were better off aborted. Her, for example. Along with the despicable liberals.
Blacks are the most church going / least likely to be Atheist race. Look at Chicago, Detroit, etc.
How in the world does somebody even come to that conclusion?
as long as the liberals get aborted, im fine.
Wow! What a testimony!
God Bless you and your family!
“Becky Griffin is a remarkably stupid woman.”
she is beyond stupid. However, you have to have some sort of IQ in order to breath and eat. She just made the cut intelligence-wise.
For a people so blinded by their own Progressive political ideology and its tyrannical biases that they hardly can make good choices for their own lives, an arrogant expression of opinion that they can make wise choices of which baby in the womb can be allowed the right to life, liberty and “the pursuit of happiness” rings hollow and supercilious.
Wow, talk about a non-sequitur, Ms. Griffin.
Guess her vast experience as a journalist makes her an expert in everything. ;)
Hmmmm..... Will the extension of this line of thought lead to a culling of the journalist gene from the DNA sequence?
So, Bilger, you prefer genocide over simple massacre??
Can’t remember who said this, but:
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Only the blood sacrifices to Molech will stop the killing and senseless bloodshed. wait . . . .
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