And the “them” you have in your family, do you want outsiders to make life and death decisions for them, though they do not know “them”, do not know what is involved in their condition, and are in truth indifferent to “them” at more than a hypothetical basis, lumped together with every other person that they think is out there that they think is like them?
The emphasis here is not on life, or even the decision to choose life, but on those who make armchair decisions about the lives of others *without thought* and *without knowledge*.
This is one of the biggest failings of the left. That they must assemble what they know in terms of groups of people, because they cannot handle the complexity of individuality. So they are both intellectually dependent on government for all things, and because “government can control it” is the simplest way to have simple solutions to complex problems.
Even if government *can’t* control it, and fouls up in every way imaginable, hurting and even killing people in the process. The left doesn’t care, because it is a simple solution, even if it is a final solution.
All so they don’t have to think about it. Incredibly lazy.
The bottom line is that from a human point of view you are right. Life deserves respect. But it is also beyond us, in that we don’t really control it. When life is given up, it is done beyond our control. So ceding control of life, one way or another, to government, is a vain thing to do.
A choice we shouldn’t make, but must. Choosing life must be done with humbleness.
I can get the sense of everything you’re saying there, with a certain heat which I can appreciate as well.
My point is that nobody —— not the church, not the state, not the military, not the medicos, not the man and not the woman -— nobody gets to choose death for the baby.
Agreed?