Let God's will be done!
Allow all babies
in the womb to live!
Posted on 07/06/2010 3:55:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
LONDON, U.K., July 6, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After contemplating the immense mysteries of human life and sacrificial love in comparison to a woman's "right to fertility control," a writer for the Times of London concludes that attempts by pro-aborts to dismiss the life of an unborn child are a "convenient lie" hiding the fact that, "Yes, abortion is killing.”
“But,” she concludes, “it's the lesser evil."
Columnist Antonia Senior in a June 30 column (available by subscription only) says that, despite the fact that the abortion debate hinges upon whether the unborn child is a unique life or not, women who wish to assert the cause of their freedom from male domination "must be prepared to kill for it."
Senior begins by linking the cause of abortion to that of religious martyrs.
“Cradle Tower at the Tower of London is an interactive display that asks visitors to vote on whether they would die for a cause,” she says. "Standing where religious martyrs were held and tortured in Britain’s turbulent reformation, I could think of one cause I would stake my life on: a woman’s right to be educated, to have a life beyond the home and to be allowed by law and custom to order her own life as she chooses.
"And that includes complete control over her own fertility."
However, she admits that her "absolutist position” has been “under siege" since she gave birth to her own child.
She notes how "having a baby paints the world an entirely different hue" by revealing the underlying selfishness in what at first appears to be courageous self-affirmation.
Senior gives the example of Leo Tolstoy’s adulterous heroine Anna Karenina in the book by the same title, writing: “If you read the book as a teenager, you back her choices with all the passion of youth. Love over convention, go Anna! Then you have children and realise that Anna abandons her son to shack up with a pretty soldier, and then her daughter when she jumps under a train. She becomes a selfish witch.”
Senior then launches into discussing abortion, which she says "hinges on the notion of life," no matter what other arguments or tactics are employed. "Either a foetus is a life from conception, or it is not,” she notes.
Senior then admits that: "What seems increasingly clear to me is that, in the absence of an objective definition, a foetus is a life by any subjective measure. My daughter was formed at conception, and all the barely understood alchemy that turned the happy accident of that particular sperm meeting that particular egg into my darling, personality-packed toddler took place at that moment. She is so unmistakably herself, her own person — forged in my womb, not by my mothering.
"Any other conclusion is a convenient lie that we on the pro-choice side of the debate tell ourselves to make us feel better about the action of taking a life.
"That little seahorse shape floating in a willing womb is a growing miracle of life. In a resentful womb it is not a life, but a foetus — and thus killable."
This fact, she says, leaves feminism with a "problem," to which she attributes the "groundswell" of young pro-life feminists.
But, she insists, "you cannot separate women’s rights from their right to fertility control."
"The single biggest factor in women’s liberation was our newly found ability to impose our will on our biology."
She concludes therefore that, "As ever, when an issue we thought was black and white becomes more nuanced, the answer lies in choosing the lesser evil” – in this case in choosing "the expectation of a life unburdened by misogyny," which she suggests can only be achieved through abortion.
Hence, she says, "The nearly 200,000 aborted babies in the UK each year are the lesser evil, no matter how you define life, or death, for that matter. If you are willing to die for a cause, you must be prepared to kill for it, too."
Feminists who consider the unborn non-human have stopped their rational analysis at a point where they can “morally” defend abortion in terms of female liberation. Those who know that the unborn are unique human lives yet insist upon the right to choose abortion have merely stopped the thinking process a little further along the road to Hell.
Just ........
wow.........
I wonder what pro-aborts are going to crawl out of the woodwork and defend this?
I have a copy of John Cleese reading it on CD. He does one heck of a job. I play it on a regular basis - every time there is some nugget of truth God brings to mind for me to apply.
Moloch must be so proud.......
It's from the 1928 BCP (and I presume also in the American Missal), which is still in use in many American Anglican churches including mine. (Don't know about the '79.)
Committed to memory a long time ago for its poetry AND directness. "That he may turn from his wickedness and live" is not an infrequent prayer here.
"Wombs" aren't resentful: self-pitying, self-serving hearts and minds are resentful.
To a "resentful" Nazi, a Jew isn't a person but a wad of disposable tissue. To a "resentful" lecher, a pretty woman isn't a person but a piece of meat. And in the heart and mind of a self-pitying, self-serving, resentful female, a baby isn't a person, and neither is anybody else.
Isn’t it absolutely amazing that the issue of BIRTHCONTROL never comes up for these people?
It’s like women go to sleep, and suddenly bang! wake up pregnant!!!!!
The time for a woman to choose is BEFORE she pulls down her panties!
Satan has toiled tirelessly in this field
It’s very condensed.
I would like a set of the trilogy that starts with “Out of the Silent Planet” for starters. Haven’t read that for a long time. I do have Screwtape on the shelf right behind me.
There is almost nothing that can be said about this crap.
If women don’t want to be used by men, keep your panties on. Stay in safe places. Know a person (and his friends and family) well before you marry him.
Killing babies is so definitely not a solution. Women have all the power they need to avoid being used in 99.9 cases out of 100.
Pope, Epistle to a Lady.
My set is unabridged. From what I understand, it is almost impossible to get anymore. I see they go for hundreds of dollars, even used. It’s so bad it is OOP. That seems so wrong. It is just a wonderful listen.
One of my disks is scratched and I’m missing a few tracts. But the great thing about Screwtape is that while they have a continuity, if you miss one or two, it is ok.
My favorite other CS Lewis read, besides Narnia as a child, is The Great Divorce, with I also have on CD, but not with Cleese. John.
The Perelandra series is around, I don’t think it is too expensive.
I am dense - which is is almost impossible to get? Your set that is unabridged? All of CS Lewis’ works?
And what is OOP?
I should read The Great Divorce too.
Maybe I’ll look on Abe Books. They have a lot that are free shipping right now.
No, it is the Screwtape Letters unabridged. But I was also able to get an unabridged version of The Great Divorce on CD, also. OOP is out of print.
At least she says what pro-aborts are thinking but are too cowardly to say. She doesn’t dance around science. She admits the child is a person, and frankly, she doesn’t care. Twisted, yes, but honest.
Long time since I have been to morning prayer using a 1979 BoCP, but I don’t think it is in there.
I worship in a 1929 parish and love the grace and beauty of the liturgy. Nothing irritates me more than to hear someone say “oh the KJV and the old BoCP are too difficult for people to understand, the language is too formal and archaic”. We raised two children who love Shakespeare and the language of the KJV and older BoCP. They have no problem understanding what is said and meant.
The dumbing down of America has also invaded the churches.
Camille Paglia has been saying much the same thing for years. She does not deny that a life is taken, but recognizes it as the choice a woman makes.
I’ve noticed the same thing among Catholics who dislike the language of the Douay-Rheims Bible. The reverence is lost in newer translations.
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