The Evil Logic Of Abortion

AgapePress ^ | April 22, 2003 | R. Cort Kirkwood

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(AgapePress) - Most people mightn't have thought about it, but it's no surprise that Scott Peterson, whose murdered wife has been national news since she went missing on Christmas Eve, stands charged with two murders.

Laci Peterson was pregnant, a tragic fact that raises the obvious question:

If a man who kills his pregnant wife can be charged with a double murder pursuant to a "fetal homicide" statute, then how can the law permit a doctor and a mother to collude in an abortion?

The pro-aborts, news reports say, are worried about the paradox, and argue that double murder is an inappropriate charge.

Wonder why?

Law and Custom

Before answering, some facts:

Over the centuries, pregnant women, and by extension their unborn children, have enjoyed an exalted station in civilized societies, and the law has always mirrored that exaltation.

Twenty-six states, for instance, have fetal homicide laws, and all of them, because of centuries-old common law, punish the murder of an unborn child. As well, common-law has always spared the life of a pregnant murderess. Executing a pregnant woman would unjustly punish the child for the mother's crime.

Interestingly, a few years ago when pro-lifers pushed for a new federal law to forbid the execution of pregnant women, one writer reported at the time, they offered no examples of a state having done so. In short, it just isn't done.

The pro-aborts opposed this bill, which shows you how extreme they are. A pregnant woman, presidential contender Al Gore said, has a "right" to carry her unborn child to the death chamber. No, Gore wasn't kidding, and neither were the rest of the pro-aborts.

What the Peterson Charges Mean No wonder they worry that Scott Peterson is charged with two murders.

The "right" to murder unborn children tops their political agenda. If you call their unbending dogmas a religion, then "we believe in abortion unto birth" is the opening line in their unholy creed.

Here is what they fear: If Scott Peterson is found guilty of murdering his unborn son, then it follows that doctors and nurses, as well as mothers and fathers and grandparents, who participate in or encourage abortion are guilty of murder as well.

The state would not arrest anyone in the latter instance, of course, but abortion could be stigmatized as "fetal homicide," which is exactly what it is.

Charging Peterson with two murders erects this paradox: A man can be convicted of double murder and sentenced to die if he tosses his pregnant wife into San Francisco Bay. Meanwhile, in an abortion clinic across the street from the courtroom where such a murderer is sentenced, a "doctor," nurses and a mother can openly conspire to murder a child as it emerges from the birth canal.

But no one will be charged.

Law, Language, and Evil Most likely, the feminists needn't worry.

Using the elastic argot of "rights," judges have resolved the legal conundrum. Most recently in January, a judge in Pennsylvania presided over another fetal homicide case.

If someone kills an unborn child while attacking the mother, he reckoned, the mother had no choice in her unborn child's death, so the act is murder. In the case of an abortion, however, a woman is exercising a legal right, so killing an unborn child is not murder.

Such is the Mephistophelean logic of abortion. It conscripts our law, as well as our language, to serve evil.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R. Cort Kirkwood is a syndicated columnist and managing editor of the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He can be contacted at kirkwood@shentel.net. © 2003 AgapePress all rights reserved.

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"Such is the Mephistophelean logic of abortion. It conscripts our law, as well as our language, to serve evil."

God bless Mr. Kirkwood for speaking the truth with such clarity.

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Quote:

"If he had killed his wife then removed a tape worm from her and it died, he would only be charged with one murder," said the Stanislaus County, CA, NOW spokesman. "That is a precisely accurate analogy using irrefutable logic."

To NOW, an unborn baby is the equivalent of a tapeworm.

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Here are 10 reasons why we should be concerned about feminism.

1. "The simple fact is that every woman must be willing to be identified as a lesbian to be fully feminist" (National NOW Times, January, 1988).

2. "Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage" (radical feminist leader Sheila Cronan).

3. In response to a question concerning China's policy of compulsory abortion after the first child, Molly Yard responded, "I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world" (Gary Bauer, "Abetting Coercion in China," The Washington Times, Oct. 10, 1989).

4. "Overthrowing capitalism is too small for us. We must overthrow the whole...patriarch!" (Gloria Steinem, radical feminist leader, editor of MS magazine).

5. "Marriage has existed for the benefit of men; and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women.... We must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women. Therefore it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not to live individually with men.... All of history must be re-written in terms of oppression of women. We must go back to ancient female religions like witchcraft" (from "The Declaration of Feminism," November, 1971).

6. "By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God." (Gloria Steinem, editor of MS magazine).

7. "Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace, and inspiration from real women.... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world." (Annie Laurie Gaylor, "Feminist Salvation," The Humanist, p. 37, July/August 1988.

8. "In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them" (Dr. Mary Jo Bane, feminist and assistant professor of education at Wellesley College, and associate director of the school's Center for Research on Woman).

9. "Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family- maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that." (Vivian Gornick, feminist author, University of Illinois, The Daily Illini, April 25, 1981.

10. "The most merciful thing a large family can to do one of its infant members is to kill it." (Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in "Women and the New Race," p. 67).

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P.S. source for above quote: JWR via FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/898156/posts

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Go back and look at that link. Read the bottom about the author. It's a satirical column.

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[Blood of Tyrants]

Oops! Well, even if they didn't say it, they think it and believe it.

[HumanaeVitae]

The Peterson case perfectly illustrates the absurd positions the government can be put into by trying to simultaneously uphold the value of human life on the one hand, and the most radical version of human liberty on the other.

[frmrda]

Agreed if you follow their twisted logic.

[joesnuffy]

If the Stanislaus mouth had been killed 1 month before his birth or 30 years after his birth would "HE" still be dead?
Even given their stupid logic .....since Laci wanted her baby and it was taken from her neither she nor the baby gave up their lives willingly...so is that enough to make it murder?
The problem with democracy is that when evil men prevail they can make evil legal and good illegal
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There has to be some precedence for this. I can't believe this is the first time a Woman was murdered while pregnant. What was the outcome? Can anyone provide some insight on previous cases such as this?

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

It's all nice arguing points. But there is no constitutional requirement that laws be consistent. Therefore expediency and feel-goodism will reign.

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Bump for the unborn!

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