Posted on 09/11/2013 8:00:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Would you support a “pro-life” bill that banned the killing of all unborn children except those born to parents who are Hindus? After all, only 0.6% of the U.S. population is Hindu, so we’re talking about saving almost 99% of the babies here. Who wouldn’t sacrifice the 0.6% to save the 99%? Don’t the needs of the many out-weigh the needs of the few, or the one? Shouldn’t we save as many as we can?
Or maybe we should put forth “pro-life” legislation that protects all children except those born to Muslims? After all, they’re only 0.9% of the U.S. population, and represent a worldview whose radical elements we’ve been at war with for over a decade. Why not protect the 99% here?
Better yet, if you’re going to leave anyone unprotected to “save as many babies as you can” why not target the Jewish people? No people group has been more targeted for extinction throughout human history than the Jews, so there’s certainly precedent for it. There are whole sectors of the globe that would support us doing so as we speak. And the Jewish people represent less than 2% of the U.S. population, so we could still save 98% of the babies.
This all sounds utterly preposterous, doesn’t it? Nobody in the pro-life movement in their right mind would propose such a thing, would they?
Except many in the pro-life movement already have.
Simply substitute “children conceived via rape and incest” for “Hindu” or “Muslim” or “Jewish” and it’s the exact same exception many in the pro-life movement have put forth time and time again. They use arguments like “why wouldn’t you sacrifice the 1% to save the 99%” to justify it. The question itself admits we’re sacrificing something. So what is it we’re sacrificing? We’re sacrificing innocent human life in the name of political expediency, that’s what we’re sacrificing. I’m no Socrates, but sacrificing the sanctity of life to preserve the sanctity of life sounds to me like an absurdity with no basis in logic.
That all sounds well and good to some when you’re talking about kids conceived in rape and incest. Kids conservative talk radio superstar Sean Hannity refers to as “evil seed.” Kids that Ann Coulter, who wrote a national best-seller called Demonic that chastised the Democrats for promoting a culture of death, doesn’t mind killing.
Obviously nobody would publicly propose not protecting life by law on the basis of someone’s religious belief. Even if they thought such a thing they wouldn’t dare say so publicly because of the obvious and deserved backlash that would ensue. So when the pro-life movement publicly says we’re not going to protect life by law on the basis of the way it was conceived, what we’re really saying is that particular life isn’t sacred.
If you bow to public opinion polls that say children conceived in rape or incest aren’t worthy of being protected, then you are tacitly admitting not all life is sacred yourself. For if the public was in favor of protecting every child other than the one named you, something tells me you’d fight public pressure and not succumb to it if it were your life on the line.
Furthermore, if we agree that not all life is sacred and worthy of protection, then we aren’t really arguing a pro-life position. We’re really arguing the Planned Parenthood position, which is “make every child a wanted child.” Let’s face it, nobody wants a child conceived in rape or incest up front, because that means you had to suffer through something heinous to conceive that child you wouldn’t even wish upon your worst enemy.
But after that child is conceived, why would we execute the child for the crimes of his/her parents? The only justification for doing so is that you really don’t believe all life is sacred, but that life conceived in certain circumstances is unwanted so killing it is an option. Therefore, is it any wonder why after 40 years we have been unable to shut down the child killing industry once and for all when not even those who are “pro-life” are of one mind on whether all life is worthy of protection?
Case in point: if you get elected and try standing for the right to life for all of God’s children, including those conceived in rape or incest, you may get criticized by the pro-life movement itself.
We can certainly agree or disagree with one another tactically about how much incrementalism is practical, and how too much incrementalism at times works against our stated strategy of working to eventually end all child-killing in America. But this is not that debate. This is a debate of principle.
When we say we’re willing not to protect children conceived in rape or incest, we’re agreeing with the child killing industry’s core vision that we mere mortals – not the Creator – determine who’s worthy to live and who’s worthless enough to be targeted for extinction. Make no mistake, when we consent to the execution of certain children because of how they were conceived we are not promoting the imago dei. And the only reason a society would turn away from the horrific selfishness of child sacrifice to the altar of personal convenience is its belief in the imago dei.
Just as a bloodied, bruised, and battered Christ on the Cross testifies to what it takes to bring redemption to a world so fallen it would execute its own Savior, so does the hope of a new life brought forth in the tragedy of rape or incest testify to the potential for meaning and redemption in such unspeakable suffering.
If you really want society to protect all life then start making the case that all life is worthy of protection.
It’s the babies who lose...and they lose because they can’t vote and they can’t tithe, so they’re ignored by the politicians and a large part of the so-called Christian churches.
When you are talking about a child conceived in rape you are talking about something very sensitive.
No woman should be FORCED to bear a child conceived by a rapist. That is insane.
Well, you’re talking about killing a child because their father committed a crime. I don’t think the issue is as cut-and-dried as you indicate.
Me. I wouldn't sacrifice people, period.
I suspect that if abortion was banned with an exception for rape, you would see a sharp rise in rape accusations by females seeking abortions.
When you are forcing a woman who suffered through such a traumatic incident to relive that incident for 8 months every moment of her life and then face the child that incident produced, and you are FORCING her to do so, I think its pretty cut and dried.
Where pro-life people loose is where they become irrational and they are irrational here.
Aside from rape or to save the life of a mother, I oppose all abortions.
By your logic, it makes just as much sense to kill the woman.
How very muslim of you.
Right and wrong? Well ... that all depends. I mean, if she was raped ...
So much evil has entered the world through that door.
I don’t see how a ban on the aborting of children conceived without rape or incest is sacrificing children who were conceived under those circumstances. It would be a step in the right direction. As it is, they are all being sacrificed.
To win, we need to focus on CAUSING PAIN TO THE ENEMY!
We will NOT win by trying to protect everyone at the same time. Wars are not won that way, political battles are not won that way.
The “no compromise” crowd, Judie Brown and ALL, FOUGHT the legislation that SMART members of the prolife movement passed, in Kansas.
That legislation, once passed into law, was used to FINALLY prosecute abortionist George Tiller. We did not win in Court, with him, but we DID win in Court, with the abortionist who was required to sign his “second opinions” as the new law required.
The “no compromise” crowd is made up of idiots, and your post is quite offensive.
FDR had to make choices between the Pacific theater and the European and North African theater. EVERY General in the field must sacrifice SOME lives so that others might live.
A Sidewalk counselor, working alone, who sees 2 pregnant women walking to the abortionist's door at the same time will have to decide which one to focus upon. There is no way her attempts will work if they are not personal and specific. Did she “allow” the other abortion then? Of course not!
Get off your moral high horse, stop being so arrogant and learn how wars and political battles are fought.
DEFUND abortionists, who send millions of dollars to proabortion politicians every year. Make it unprofitable to be an abortionist. Cut back on the money that liberal politicians can expect from the abortion industry by reducing the number of abortions. This is how any SMART political operative would face this issue, but ALL and Judy Brown are political and legislative idiots.
That’s insane. If your daughter were raped by some lowlife thug, you would want her to suffer through the pregnancy and raising the result of that experience? I DOUBT it.
What is illogical is carrying arguments to an insane extreme. This is like saying because I support the Second Amendment I should support letting people have modern artillery pieces and guided missiles.
See my response to Joe Six Pack
There’s an easier rebuttal to the pro-aborts.
Ask them if they would support a law that restricted access to abortion to ONLY victims of rape or incest.
Quit letting them put pro-lifers in that spot.
+1
There's a lot of things I don't want to see anybody suffer through. Killing an innocent person is rarely a solution to any of them.
Rape is a serious crime and accusing a person of a serious crime falsely is a very serious crime also. I DOUBT it. And those who tried it would have to face the consequences.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The women has been traumatized by the act of rape, then she kills her innocent flesh and blood.
The abortion may present itself as the best way out of her terrible situation, but once it sinks in that she killed her baby, she will regret that decision for the rest of her life.
She will ALWAYS regret killing the little one she never knew.
Like Crystal Mangum?
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