Pro-Life Is Pro-Baby: Mel Gibson And Fatherhood Against Abortion

Toogood Reports ^ | December 19, 2001 | Isaiah Flair

[Starmaker]

"Feminists don't like me and I don't like them...I don't know why feminists have it out for me, but that's their problem, not mine." – Mel Gibson (star of Braveheart, The Patriot, Lethal Weapon; 100% pro-life)

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." – Mother Teresa

"I am dedicated to spending the rest of my life undoing the law that bears my name. I would like nothing more than to have this law overturned." – Norma L. McCorvey ("Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade)

"Thou shalt not kill" – The Holy Bible

"The decision nullifies a law, expressing the will of the people of Nebraska, that medical procedures must be governed by moral principles having their foundation in the intrinsic value of human life, including life of the unborn." – Justice Anthony Kennedy (dissent from Carhart vs. Stenberg, the 2000 case in which five other justices overturned a Nebraska law against partial-birth abortion, the procedure Justice Kennedy references)

"The inalienable right to life is found not only in the Declaration of Independence but also in the Constitution that every President is sworn to preserve, protect and defend.ÿ Both the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee that no person shall be deprived of life without due process of law." – Ronald Reagan

"Each of us has a unique beginning, the moment of conception..." – Jerome Lejeune (Nobel Prize, Genetics)

"A Person is a Person, no matter how Small." – Dr. Seuss

As a pro-lifer, I have to acknowledge that not only does a prenatal baby's life begin at conception, but that there begins fatherhood also. It is at conception that the father and mother are conjoined to produce new life. It is at conception that the most beautiful thing on the planet, the G-d-blessed spark of innocent human life, begins it's journey through existence.

From that moment, every good father loves his baby, and is moved by a need to protect, defend, and care for her from that moment, through all the days of her life. This empathy, this compassion and emotional investment, is a society builder. It is what gives fathers the motivation to work, to build homes, and to make the world a safer place.

It must be sanctioned and endorsed by every legal vehicle possible.

And it is time to define, for once and for all, what "pro-life" is.

Pro-Life is Pro-Baby. It is the understanding that babies have rights, rights worth protecting.

Every baby has a right to grow old enough to...

...gurgle, and smile, and laugh, and do all the silly, adorable things that babies do...

...take those first, halting steps as toddlers do, more waddling than walking, offering heart-melting toothless grins in celebration of their own efforts...

...see a bird, or a tree, or a cloud for the first time, and in wide-eyed wonder, point chubby fingers at each new wonder of Creation, as they discover them...

...know the joy of being protected from all the dangers of the outside world, by someone who loves them more than anything in the world...

This and more, babies deserve.

And the very human life of every innocent, vulnerable, defenseless little pre-natal baby begins with the moment of conception.

Prior to conception, each of the parent's respective haploid gametes contains twenty-three chromosomes, only half of what is required to create new human life. Conception results in a single cell which contains forty-six chromosomes.

These forty-six chromosomes are not only human, but are in a combination distinctly, undeniably different from either parent.

This combination is the blueprint for every biological aspect of the new human's life, and will determine infinite characteristics of the new individual. We all began our unique and valuable lives exactly this way. It is at this point that the processes of life are set in motion. Were they not, there would be nothing to terminate...

Dependency is a quality that extends well into toddlerhood. At conception, the new human life is at once dependent, and defenseless, and utterly vulnerable.

This is science.

This is reality.

It is indisputable.

The anti-baby ice-cold euphemism of "choice" defies science and nature no less than it controverts human decency and morals.

In the name of nature and science, we must recognize the reality that each of our unique human lives begins at conception.

In the name of human decency and morals, the very human life of every defenseless, innocent, vulnerable little prenatal baby must be fully protected.

Legally.

Roe vs. Wade will be overturned during this presidency, given two more United States Supreme Court appointments by very pro-life President George W. Bush.

When that occurs over the next three years, the road will be paved to the enactment of a protective law, reading as follows:

"Where the mother's life is not in danger, the father of every baby consensually conceived shall have the legal right to prevent the abortion of his baby, from the point of conception through birth, provided that he is willing to support and raise the baby."

It is the right thing to do.

Since this essay began with quotes I agree with, I will close it with a quote I do not agree with, but which eerily echoes the position of those on the other side of this issue:

"It had nothing to do with humanity, it couldn't have; it was a mass..." – a reference to the Holocaust by Franz Stangl, Nazi commandant of extermination camps in Sobibor (March, 1942 -September, 1942) and Treblinka (September, 1942 - August, 1943).

Interviewed by Gitta Sereny in 1970, Stangl's comments later appeared in the book Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience (1983).

[glf]

Seems to me that there should be a humongous lawsuit against the abortion industry for the costs of treating women with breast cancer who have had an abortion. These costs would be retroactive to 1965 and into the future as long as abortion on demand is legal.

WHERE THE HELL ARE THE AMBULANCE CHASERS ? !!

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

I support every argument in favor of life, and oppose every one against. Real pro-life folks would never support State-forced abortion. The "pro-choice" contingent however, lack the moral fortitude to stop any abortions...life leads to life, death leads to death.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

Regarding the earlier ad hominem bit, I invite everyone to check out the profile, and agree or disagree with the contentions found therewithin. Just double-click on "Dr. Good Will Hunting" at the bottom of this message.

[Elsie]

Let's look at this abit differently.....

You pro-lifers are living in a fantasy world if you think that abortion is going to be outlawed. Face it, women want and DESERVE control over their own bodies.

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You pro-arm folks are living in a fantasy world if you think that cutting off your arm is going to be outlawed. Face it, women want and DESERVE control over their own bodies.

Face it, if a woman DID want her arm cut off, she'd be tossed in the looney bin

Face it, it's NOT control of HER body, it's someone elses!

[sayfer bullets]

The issue here is which side will have enough political savy to make civil law concur with their side.

One rub is that murdering the innocent is not a civil issue. "What to do" about it is the hangup, not whether it's right-or-wrong. If it were undoubtedly "right", then the abortionists wouldn't mind everyone knowing all of the details.

[Elsie]

A tiny clump of cells in a womb is NOT a living, breathing human being.

You are right here!

But it IS a living human being!

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But, why then is there a law against FETICIDE?
Unless done by an 'abortionist'?
Shouldn't that merely be 'practicing medicine without a license'?

[Elsie]

Isn't it odd how these so-called "pro-family" conservatives forget about the child once it's born? They'll work themselves into a froth trying to defend a tiny clump of cells in a womb, but once the baby is born they really don't give a damn what happens to it.

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Oh, you REALLY believe this?

Do you have any FACTS to support your belief?

I guess it must be Pro-Choicers that are manning the adoption-not abortion alternative centers.....

[glf]

I think you have hit on something which will be of immense value in the battle against abortion. Relative to politics of incremental change, this would indeed be a large increment. Thanks for the post.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

BUMP....

It' funny how the pro-abort fanatics label every pro-life goal not possible...

They underestimate us, drastically.

And overestimate themselves, drastically.

We have genetics and morality on our side.

They have feminism and immorality on their side.

They will lose.

And then, there's the clincher:

God is on our side.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

I think you have hit on something which will be of immense value in the battle against abortion. Relative to politics of incremental change, this would indeed be a large increment. Thanks for the post.

Thank you. I am not surprised at your combination of sense and compassion. I figured you were such a quality person when you addressed your message to GoodieD, who is all that as well.

God Bless!

Merry Christmas,

---Wil

[glf]

Also if women want and deserve control over thier own bodies then why is prostitution not advocated by feminists?

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

Elsie, to affirm your point, you are 100% right: pro-lifers volunteer their time at Crisis Pregnancy Care Centers, while pro-death Planned Parenthood rakes in the cash for doing what they do.

[ostephani]

I have 5 children Stewart and was lucky enough to see my youngest when he was just 12 weeks in the womb. He had arms, legs, hands, feet, and he was bouncing off the wall of my uterus. He also rubbed his little head. If you dare tell me that you have seen the same and consider yourself informed AND STILL PRO ABORTION, I will pray for you. I had to say that lest I say something far worse :( SO

[sayfer bullets]

Isn't it odd how these so-called "pro-family" conservatives forget about the child once it's born?

This is your standard "shift the focus" tactic for abortion supporters. In most disputes, the one who runs out of meaningful supportive arguments first often reaches for the ad-hominem or non-sequitor to keep it going.

It can happen to anyone, but you'd have to have been in a cave not to have caught this one at least a few hundred times.

There is no rationalization for the killing of innocent life. Ending a child's life because you don't trust others to shell-out sufficiently for them is not even close to worthy of discussion.

[soccermom]

Where did you hear that? That's the first time I've heard he cheats on his wife.

[soccermom]

#49 -- I LOVE IT!!!

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

He doesn't...anyone as famous as Mel Gibson is will be the subject of libel.

[soccermom]

That's what I would think. I don't know Emma's friend, so I won't accuse her of lying. But I imagine it would be quite exciting to tell friends you were propositioned by Mel Gibson. My dad is quite outgoing --- some would call it flirtatious -- but he would never cheat on my mom. Sometimes people misinterpret things. (Then again, I've heard Michael Medved be surprisingly cool to Mel. So maybe they know something we don't.)

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

I've seen Mel Gibson in interviews, and he clearly enjoys flirting with female interviewers. Such flirting could be subjectively misinterpreted. He would never actually cheat on his wife of nearly 20 years though. He is a good and moral man.