Posted on 08/06/2004 6:22:14 AM PDT by dukeman
Hearts of stone
Millions of Americans accept that life begins at conception and still support legalized abortion
John Kerry says that life begins at conception. He says that while he would not dream of imposing his beliefs on anyone else, he remains at heart a good Roman Catholic and agrees with his church’s teachings about when life begins. But he still supports all abortions, even partial-birth abortions.
If he believed that a fetus is just a clump of cells, then support for abortion makes sense. That belief is wrong, based on a perhaps willful ignorance of medical science and common sense, but at least it has a certain logic. If the fetus is not a human being, then abortion is no different than—as I heard someone describe it—removing a wart.
Pro-lifers cast much of their argument against abortion on showing that the fetus is, indeed, a human being, just as much a baby as an infant in arms.
When people realize the humanity of the child in the womb—such as when a pregnant woman feels her baby move, or when a couple sees an ultrasound image of their baby—they often change from being pro-abortion to pro-life. In Britain, a BBC documentary showing ultrasound images of babies in the womb sucking their thumbs, moving around, making faces, and otherwise acting like babies, has created something of a sensation. Parliament will soon consider revising the country’s abortion laws—not prohibiting abortions, but allowing them only in the first few weeks after conception, before such uncomfortably human pictures would be possible.
But in a major paradox of the abortion controversy, pro-lifers may be winning the debate on when life begins, but for an increasing number of people it doesn’t matter. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans agree that life begins at conception. And yet, as many as two-thirds of Americans believe abortion should be legal through the first three months. A large percentage of the public, like Sen. Kerry, believes that a fetus is a living human being, and yet can be aborted anyway. Forty-eight percent go so far as to say they believe that abortion is murder. And yet, many of the same people believe that such murder should be legal!
It is bad enough to believe in abortion under the assumption that a fetus is not a human life. But to believe that a fetus is a human being and still to believe in abortion is monstrous.
Sin hardens the heart. The author of the book of Hebrews urges “that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13). The deceit of sin, persisted in and rationalized, makes a person less sensitive, less feeling, less compassionate. Their “consciences are seared” (1 Timothy 4:2).
Amy Richards writes in The New York Times about learning that she was pregnant with triplets. With no outward remorse, she blithely tells how she made the decision to abort two of them. She realized that with three babies, she would have to give up her New York City lifestyle: “I’ll never leave my house because I’ll have to care for these children. I’ll have to start shopping only at Costco and buying big jars of mayonnaise.”
She had wanted to have one baby, but having three would just be too lower class. Never considering adoption, she finds a doctor who can do a procedure called “selective reduction.”
They do a sonogram—so she sees her three children as on British TV—and she chooses which one to keep and which ones, in her words, to “get rid of.” She sees the three beating hearts. She knows exactly what is going to happen to two of them: “The procedure involves a shot of potassium chloride to the heart of the fetus.”
She does it. She feels a lot better. She worries that this might come back and haunt her—might it cause her to miscarry?—but everything is fine. She has the one baby. She says she would do it again, though if she ever has twins she might keep both of them (giving her three babies again). But she doesn’t know.
Perhaps Ms. Richards is not as callous as she seems. Maybe her non-repenting confession was an attempt to come to terms with what she did, under the façade of the currently hip coolness and cynicism, and with the support system of her city’s liberal self-righteousness.
But her only hope—and that of Sen. Kerry and the millions of people whose hearts have become so hard—is in the action of God: “I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh” (Ezekiel 11:19).
I understand you point (i don't agree with it) and while I think it is Vicious, at least it's consistent.
But that wasn't enough. They wanted a "saving the health of the mother" exemption. That way, virtually any inconvenience, however trivial, could be construed as detrimental to the mother's mental health.
That would make abortion on demand, for whatever reason whatsoever, the law. Anything short of that and the abortion Nazis would fight it with maniacal frenzy.
Here i the real point. Kerry says he believes life begins at conception. He also believes abortion is OK. Kerry believes nuder is OK if someone else's life is inconvenient to another's. That is unacceptable
If some moderator in the Presidential debates does not frame this question to Kerry (IF LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION, as you stated, THEN HOW DO YOU SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS), then we will have seen Media Bias at it's worse.
It needs to be asked by someone. I know he'll slither out of the question but that's okay, the flip-flop-flim-flam political contortionist will be exposed once again.
What a war these tiny babies are in.......God keep them in his tender loving care.
He knows each one of them, sweetiepiezer. Each one....
This is one instance in which the enlightened, sophisticated, "evolving" pro-aborts would have us all be Luddites.
This is what puzzles me about the abortion proponents - they don't seem to recognize that every state had a "saving the life of the mother" exemption in their abortion ban.
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The problem is of course that the Black Robed Gods think that that phrase means there is a "saving the SOCIAL life of the mother" exemption in their abortion ban.
Satan couldn't say it better.
Satan couldn't say it better.
Why, thank you.
So9
What does the "9" stand for?
What does the "9" stand for?
Nine.
So9
You're the Servant of number 9? What does that mean?
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Satanists and the Number NineI have a feeling about this guy, based on his previous posts.Satanists take delight in the number nine for a couple of reasons. First, Satanists enjoy reversing, mirroring and inverting symbols, letters and numbers. When you turn the number "9" upside down you get "6" which makes up the number of the Beast (666) as revealed in Revelation 13:18 in the Bible. Second, Satanists take perverse pleasure in commemorating the death of Christ and the death of Christ is associated with the number nine. Mark 15: 34-37 reveals that Christ spoke his last words on the Cross of Calvary at the ninth hour and "gave up the ghost (died)."
So9
So9
Why not just answer the question? Are you ashamed of it?
John Kerry is trying to be all things to all people. In the process if you listen to him on a consistent level. He makes no sense, and he is not trustworthy.
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