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To: grellis; stands2reason; Hildy; Fishtalk
the whole "baby killer" rhetoric does far more harm to the pro-life cause than it does good.

I think the distinction between those who had committed an abortion and are now pro-life and those who remain pro-abortion is very important here. It is un-Christian in the extreme to hurl invective at a murderer who repented of her act. It is important to convict an unrepentant murderer morally, especially since we cannot convict them juridically.

147 posted on 08/11/2006 9:58:50 AM PDT by annalex
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To: annalex
I think the distinction between those who had committed an abortion and are now pro-life and those who remain pro-abortion is very important here. It is un-Christian in the extreme to hurl invective at a murderer who repented of her act. It is important to convict an unrepentant murderer morally, especially since we cannot convict them juridically.

Bingo. And your original post was absurd--but it was illustrating an absurd position (abortion is ok) by being absurd. As such, it was brilliantly effective.
160 posted on 08/11/2006 10:41:56 AM PDT by Antoninus (Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
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To: annalex; Fishtalk
It is important to convict an unrepentant murderer morally...

Maybe. But only if it could be done without the "baby killer" rhetoric. Look at it this way: This is an open forum, and a pretty decent microcosm of the whole wide world. If we tag someone on the forum as a baby killer because she is unrepenant about what she has done--well, she's not going to be the only one to read it, right? Just like the real world. If we shout those words in the real world, it is not just going to be the unrepenant who hear, right? There will be women out there, just as there are women on this forum, who are still so tattered by what they have done that just a whisper of those words will make them clam up, and that is tremendously sad. It is sad because a lot of these women are good Christian women who are desperately in need of forgiveness, and they do not yet understand how to get on that path (most of them are on it and don't even realize it). It is also sad because they hear or read those words and are terrified of sharing their experiences, lest they suffer the slings and arrows of pro-lifers. It is hard to bear witness to the atrocity under those circumstances, and these women have to be able to speak freely about what having an abortion does to a woman. We know what abortion does to the unborn. It is unspeakably heinous. Most of us have seen the pictures, the diagrams...but we've never really seen a picture of a woman's soul after an abortion has ripped it to shreds, have we?

We simply cannot silence these women, even if it means the unrepenant go unchallenged. In the end, they don't go unchallenged, after all.

167 posted on 08/11/2006 11:12:54 AM PDT by grellis (I don't know, let me ask my I Ching)
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