Posted on 05/22/2015 6:04:57 AM PDT by Morgana
How many times have you heard a pro-abortion person say that abortion should be rare? The oft-repeated words, notably spoken by pro-abortion president, Bill Clinton, are “safe, legal, and rare.”
Pro-abortion advocates often say this because it makes them look like moderates. But they are also acknowledging that they, like most people, feel uncomfortable about abortion. They may say that abortion should only be a last resort for women, but the policies they support, namely, abortion without any restrictions, actually encourage abortions to be more common.
One response to the “safe, legal, rare” mantra is to ask the pro-choicer why they feel abortion should be rare. They are tacitly admitting that they know abortion is a bad thing (or why should it be rare?), but why is it a bad thing? If abortion is only the removal of some tissue or cells, why would it be a bad thing? It shouldn’t matter if there were 1,000, 4,000, 10,000, or 50,000 abortions a day.
Why would it matter if it were just another operation, akin to wisdom teeth removal or a tonsillectomy? In response to this question, the pro-abortion advocate may be forced to admit that abortion is a bad thing that should be rare because it kills babies.
Claiming that abortion should be rare allows pro-choicers to appeal to those who are ambivalent, or on the fence about abortion. Many pro-abortion writers, activists and politicians have clung to the “abortion should be rare” rhetoric.
But not RH Reality Check’s Aimée Thorne-Thomsen. In a 2010 article that I recently stumbled across, Thorne–Thomsen describes how, instead of there being too many abortions, there are too few.
…if those 1.21 million abortions [performed every year] represent only the women who could access abortion financially, geographically or otherwise, then that number is too low. Yes, too low. If that’s the case, then what is an appropriate response? How do we best support women and their reproductive health? Do we dare admit that increasing the number of abortions might be not only good for women’s health, but also moral and just?…. We say we care about women and want them to have access to all the information, services and resources necessary to make the best decisions they can for themselves and their families. That is at the core of reproductive justice. Not reducing the number of abortions. Safe – yes. Legal– absolutely. Rare – not the point.
Emphasis in original.
Abortion should be “absolutely” legal and, instead of rare, perfectly common. Because apparently, more abortion is “moral” and “just.”
Just to give a reminder of what Thorne-Thomsen believes should be more common, let me share this description from former abortionist Dr. Patti Giebink. Describing an abortion late in the first trimester, at a time when many abortions still take place, Giebink explains how part of the baby is too big to go through the suction tube that connects to the jar which will hold the aborted remains:
And so you could also see that the hands and the feet are going to come through okay. But sometimes the head, which was also known as the calavarium, would not come out through the suction cannula, and I would have to use a forcep or a tool to grasp the head; to pull it out.
One has to wonder why Thorne-Thomsen thinks that this is “moral” and “just.”
Should there be more abortions? The answer is no.
Pro-life groups need to reach out to women who are in crisis and offer them life-affirming solutions. Women in a crisis pregnancy need hope, counseling, and ongoing help with their pregnancies. This is what the pro-life movement must continue to do for them. In contrast, the pro-abortion movement can only offer them a dead baby.
"...but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 8:26
Liberalism (er, “progressive-ism”) is truly the religion of death. In the case of this article, to advocate for unrestrained abortion results in the liquidation of a potential human individual. When carried out as general social norms, results in a rate of live births that is below the rate of death.
As such, this is social suicide.
It gets even worse because of socialism. When government sets up income redistribution programs to fund retirement and turns it into a Ponzi scheme so it needs to have many people working so as to fund the retirement payments to a few, when declining number of workers reaches a certain level, the scheme fails.
And so, the socialists (ever on the lookout for assets to covet and steal), must import workers to be taxed. From where do these workers come, and what cultural values do they bring with them? Well certainly not values that cherish freedom, at least on balance. In fact the current immigration scam is advanced in part exactly because the left expects that the poor and uneducated people from Central and South America who are flooding in are predisposed to socialism and dependency.
So for the left, abortion only has a positive feedback loop. At the individual level, and the level of the national economy and at the level of importing people who will vote for the socialist candidates.
This leads me to state the obvious: however we decide to settle the legal status of those who came here in violation of the law, who stay here in violation of the law, and who work here in violation of the law, we must NEVER allow them to have the right to vote. At the very least this must be the price of their violation of the law, and to not reward the politicians who pandered to their violation of the law and who expected to buy votes through these policies.
Evil rarely wants to minimize evil.
I’m quite sure that most slaveholders also believed that there should be more slaves.
Margaret Sanger to war torn Western Europe (1947) “NO MORE BABIES (for at least 10 years)”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChCjgYGTL4Y
In their eyes, ALL babies should be dead. Safe, legal, rare is a lie just as the homo mantra of “actions of consenting adults in private” was a lie (it is far out of the bedroom these days and pre-K children are instructed in it).
“Choice” is a lie as well. They decided. No!
Slaveowners who were breeding their slaves and selling them didn’t want any more slaves imported.
Just as those with interests in gambling states lobby politicians in neighboring states to block gambling legislation.
Pro-abortion people come in two forms: bitter racists who want to exterminate hated minorities, and those who hate mankind itself and wish to exterminate it.
Sadly, while these sound like extreme or even insane views, they both have wide followings.
That never was a sincerely held position.
As my momma told one of her kind....
“Maybe your mom should have had an abortion.”
Three really. The third kind are just greedy for money.
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