The Perverse Logic of Abortion

Crosswalk ^ | Wednesday, November 30, 2005 | Albert Mohler

[Fenris6]

"Homeless: Will Work for Food"

"Pro-Choice: Will Kill for Sex"

[Northern Yankee]

"'Childbirth,' he says, 'should be joyous; a woman should never consider it a punishment or an obligation,'" Simon reports. As Dr. Harrison states, "We try to make sure she doesn't ever feel guilty for what she feels she has to do."

And 10 years from now, how is Dr. Harrison going to meet the needs of a woman's depression, sadness, and in some cases suicidal attempts, when she has to live with this guilt of destroying the life within her day in and day out?

It's a myth to say that all woman/parents should not feel obligation at the moment of childbirth. Obligation starts at the moment of conception.

Childbirth is joyous, but the women will certainly never know that joy when they abort. There is no logic with Dr. Harrison.

[Northern Yankee]

Thought you should see...

[Kelly_2000]

"We try to make sure she doesn't ever feel guilty for what she feels she has to do."

And 10 years from now, how is Dr. Harrison going to meet the needs of a woman's depression, sadness, and in some cases suicidal attempts, when she has to live with this guilt of destroying the life within her day in and day out?

he is attempting to dehumanize people so they do not feel guilt for the ending of a human life?

Does anyone else see an obvious moral issue here? Even if you are not form a religious background this is inexcusable

[Northern Yankee]

I was stunned to see that they use anesthetics to make the patient forget about the procedure. That's all well and good when you're having surgery to remove something detrimental to one's health, but to try and allow the patient to forget something that will come back to haunt them in the years to come, is a whole other issue, don't you think?

How are you?

[WorkingClassFilth]

All pro-abortion advocates claim to abhor abortion. In truth, she was an advocate of abortion - she just wanted it legal (and she thought that would make it safe and clean - little did she know). Her real goal was social engineering based in flawed Malthusian logic and utopian socialism. Her desire to see contraception use widespread included abortion and she saw no consequence other than social stigma.

She was also deeply interested in race and eugenics, but that's another thousand post thread...

[ArrogantBustard]

Harrison estimates that he has terminated at least twenty thousand pregnancies.
Some accomplishment.

Indeed. I wonder how many concentration camp guards (whether communist or national socialist) could claim such an accomplishment? He may well have set some sort of record in the business of industrialized slaughter.

[WorkingClassFilth]

She was a clever propagandist. Just as pro-aborion advocates today claim to regret every abortion, they fight to the death to preserve the same. Sanger was identical in that her thrust was to offer contraceptives to the masses, but legal, safe and medically sound abortion was certainly included in that spectrum.

"We know that abortion, when performed by skilled hands, under the right conditions, brings almost no danger to the life of the patient, and we also know that particular diseases can be more easily combatted after such an abortion than during pregnancy allowed to come to full term. But why not adopt the easier, safer, less repulsive course and prevent conception altogether?" -- M. Sanger (ibid, p.200)

It seems quite a stretch to me to hold that a woman so bent on supposed safety and certainty would be opposed to abortion. The fact that abortion, in that day and age, was tantamount to cannibalism makes a strategy that puts incremental options first and forward so-o-o-o reasonable. Unfortunately, her offspring, Planned Parenthood, is evidence that the real agenda is reversed. That is, abortion brings home the bacon but...uh...there are other options, too. In her later years, she also deepened her association with eugenicists even those in Nazi Germany. Never mind that racism and abortion were prominent tools, just focus on the emancipation of women.

[Question_Assumptions]

Yes, first baby. Things going well so far. Thanks for asking.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Perhaps the most shocking dimension of Dr. Harrison's candor is the manner in which he cloaks his practice of abortion in religious language. In the Los Angeles Times article, Harrison refers to women who have terminated their pregnancies as being "born again" through the experience.

In his statement published in the Reproductive Freedom Task Force newsletter, Harrison claimed to have heard "a still, small voice asking, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?' to which I was at last compelled to reply, 'Here am I, send me.'" Here we confront the breathtaking delusion of a man who would cite God's call to the prophet Isaiah as a parallel to his "calling" to be an abortionist.

I don't think is candor, but a twisted and sick mind who enjoys destroying life. He probably sees himself as some kind of divine entity with the power to kill.

[Victoria Delsoul]

I learned the word NO, and I never had to worry about getting pregnant.

You're smart - good for you.

[DBeers]

The very fact that Dr. Harrison has delivered six thousand babies and aborted twenty thousand others, coupled with his shocking candor, means that a look into his practice and philosophy of life offers rare insights into the dark depths of pure evil manifested...

[DMZFrank]

Here is another great example of the down the rabbit hole insanity that abortion "law" is. A few years ago in Chicago, a married manager of a fast food resturant was charged with the murder of his girlfriend and her unborn child. It seems that he knocked her up, and she came to extort him for hush money, part of which was to go for an abortion. He killed her because he didn't want to pay the dough for it.

While the murder charges for the girlfriend are easy to understand, I was struck as to how there was almost no discussion of the fact that he got charged for achieving precisely the same objective for the child that the "mother" was seeking and that she would have been entirely free of legal consequence for by having the deed performed by a medical hitman.

Aside from the grave moral implications, abortion law is also the greatest insult to logic and linear reasoning that was ever perpetrated by man or Supreme court justice!!!

[countess]

In her later years, she also deepened her association with eugenicists even those in Nazi Germany.

This is absolutely not true about Sanger's later years. She gave up on any superior race notions when WWII broke out, and she was personally responsible for enabling many Jews to escape Europe. There were many like-minded folk in the 1920's who thought it was best that feeble-minded and deformed people shouldn't procreate. Hilter made those ideas quite unpalatable.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Of course, just as Soviet and Chinese totalitarianism has made socialism unpalatable to the international left - not. The very idea of abortion opens the door to ALL manner of evils because it justifies the perversity of killing at the most intimate and sacred level - mothers who kill their children. Argued on the economic level, as Sange did, it is even more obscene because it is murder for material benefit only.