OPINION: A New Abolitionism, It is Time to End Abortion

Catholic Online ^ | 7/24/08 | Deacon Keith Fournier

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South Dakota is only the first State to pass such legislation. many must follow. The legislation was well drafted and supported by a record of legislative findings of fact that includes unassailable medical science which unequivocally affirms that children in the womb are, in fact, human beings and therefore persons.

The legislation had and still has overwhelming popular support. That is why it survived efforts by “pro-choice” (read “pro-feticide”) extremists to defeat it through a referendum.

Several other States are now said to be ready to follow this example.

Some within the pro-life community have speculated that such a courageous act by a State legislature is ill conceived. I have heard the arguments that the incremental approach stands a “better chance” and that somehow the South Dakota approach will harm the inevitable incremental curtailing of abortions.

I say nonsense!

Human Rights activism always requires an asymmetrical approach. The choice is not “either/or”, it is always “both/and”.

I have long supported incremental efforts geared toward the limitations and curtailment of abortion. I was a practicing pro-life lawyer for a very long time. For seven years in the last decade I led the American Center for Law and Justice which used such incrementalism in securing the protection of pro-life speech.

However, pitting these complimentary strategies against one another is wrong. It also fails to comprehend the gravity of the moral evil that is legal abortion.

That is why I have now chosen to use a new term to characterize my own opposition to legal abortion. It is time for a new abolitionism. It is time to end abortion!

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Savage Texan-—That genocide supporter scum is a goner. Thank God.

Ditto!

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Awesome post. Thank you Humble Servant.