Strategy for success evades pro-lifers

RenewAmerica.us ^ | November 5, 2007 | Judie Brown

[EternalVigilance]

Ping to a great article, from one of the wisest individuals in America.

[upsdriver]

Very good article. I am reminded every time someone brings up the fact we haven’t had another 9/11 attack that we have the equivilant of that every day via abortions. Not by terrorists but by our own citizens and we sit idlely by allowing it to continue. Shame on all of us.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah, this piece slipped by me earlier in the month. When someone brought it to my attention earlier, I thought it was definitely worthy of putting up on FR.

As to the continuing daily holocaust, amen. It’s horrendous.

As Lincoln said, this country will never be destroyed from without. If we’re going down, it will be from forces within.

[labette]

...and below.

[Lexinom]

If we were talking about any other class of citizens and the violent act of murder being perpetrated against them daily, would the public be happy with regulating how or when the murders took place?

Says it all...

[garylmoore]

Plain truth:

cold-blooded murder — which is precisely what an act of procured abortion is

[do the dhue]

bump

[EternalVigilance]

You betcha.

[EternalVigilance]

Judie Brown is, in my estimation, one of the three most principled, dedicated and knowledgable leaders of the pro-life movement.

As an evangelical, it’s sad in a way that I have to admit that those three are all Catholics.

Judie Brown
Alan Keyes
Charles E. Rice

[EternalVigilance]

It doesn’t get much plainer than that.

[Lexinom]

The Catholics are staunch on life. I’m not an evangelical, but am a Protestant and a conservative in the Calvinist tradition. All of us, regardless of our beliefs seen as though through a glass darkly, must unite as co-belligerents in this greatest moral battle of our time. God will judge and have the last word, but we too will be called to account for the roles we played in the battle.

[EternalVigilance]

Agreed. I can make common cause with anyone who agrees with, and advocates for, the American creed:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

[Drew68]

we face a slaughter with numbers so mind numbing that nobody can even begin to imagine the piles of dead bodies about which we speak.

Piles of dead bodies? Where? Is there a mass grave somewhere? Oh, you must mean those piles of microscopic cells. A little hyperbole today? It is this kind of rhetoric that has so many mainstream Americans rolling their eyes the pro-life movement.

[Drew68]

cold-blooded murder — which is precisely what an act of procured abortion is

Most Americans disagree and thus... Strategy for success evades pro-lifers.

[Lexinom]

I do have a question for you: Would a pile of dead n bodies from dwarves constitute any less of a tragedy than a much larger pile of the same number of bodies from giants? Is the giant inherently of more value than the dwarf?

On what basis do you seek to draw artificial lines of valuation based on size or age, given that life is a continuous, dynamic, gradual, smooth process with a real beginning, having no spikes or jumps?

[Lexinom]

Many Americans are ignorant of the true violence of abortion, and most are not as politically active.

How many times have you seen an abortion on TV - the immediate physical results, the intermediate psychological results, the long-term pain suffered by millions of women? And why would women want to speak about such a deeply hurtful and personal matter? And lastly, why would you seek to condone a climate of tolerance for something so brutal in severity, pitting mother against child?

[EternalVigilance]

One murdered child is an abomination.

Fifty million is beyond human imagination.

And your attitude, translated into public policy, is why they have occurred.

[Drew68]

do have a question for you: Would a pile of dead n bodies from dwarves constitute any less of a tragedy than a much larger pile of the same number of bodies from giants? Is the giant inherently of more value than the dwarf?

I would think that most Americans would agree that there are no piles of dead bodies. This statement is pure hyperbole and is designed to appeal to emotion. Face it, most Americans don't view abortion as cold-blooded murder. Poll after poll after poll will attest to this. As such, they're not seeing any piles of dead bodies.

[Lexinom]

There are approximately 47 million dead bodies - 1/3 of my generation, perhaps the friend I never helped, perhaps the woman I never married. Whether they are physically arranged in a pile or not is immaterial.

Polls are meaningless as public opinion is in constant flux on a phalanx of issues, and does not determine truth. Your statement "they're not seeing any piles of dead bodies" may have something to do with this public opinion. The question is, why are they not being shown it? Given that 47 million murders have taken place - more than were killed by Hitler and Stalin combined - on what moral basis can we condemn any genocide or evil in the world, given that none can approach those numbers? On what basis should anyone care, as long as this is taking place?