Finally, an honest liberal on abortion

Here is Bill Mahar, telling you to your face what abortion really is.  Murder.

Abortion is an inversion of not only the values that this country was founded on but also the values that built our society.  So the inversions of those founding values is destroying society.  People that built this country for over 150+ years knew life had value.  And they felt that so strongly they would place priority on the lives of the many and give up their own in sacrifice for them. As it’s been said, “plant trees whose shade you know you will never sit under”.  But now we have inverted those values and we now prioritize the self and will gladly sacrifice others for the self.  Even our own children.

You can rationalize it for the next 100 years, but when you support abortion you are submitting that whether a living human has value is based in part on a calculation of how inconvenient that life is to you.

You can talk about well he/she is a “person” here and not a “person” there.  That’s simply cherry picking whatever is the current science to try to paint grey what is black and white because it is supportive of your entitlement.  Making arguments based on nebulous terms is still just rationalization.

Do many people claim to be pro-life and then when they make a mistake they alter their stance temporarily?  Yes.  And that makes them murderous hypocrites.

Does that mean IVF is wrong too (it causes multiple “conceptions”)? Yes.

But what about “my body my choice”?  In the vast majority of cases it was 100% your choice. You chose and now it’s no longer just your body.  If you are driving your car and pickup a friend to bring them to the mall, but halfway there you decide you don’t want to go to the mall, is it ok to just eject them from the car on the interstate?  My car my choice?  No, because you are not the only one in it.

What about when the life of the mother is at dire risk?  This is the only time I invoke “my body my choice” in this context.  If we are in the situation where someone will die regardless then it’s just doing the best you can.  But any mother (or father) that would not sacrifice her life for her child is simply just a pregnant female.

But what about capital punishment, you support that right?  No, I do not.  I am fine with self defense but life and death is God’s territory.

These peripheral discussions do not take away observable reality.  A human in the early stages of development is still a human regardless of what term  you use for that state of development.  And it is most certainly alive.  So stopping he/she from developing and ceasing his/her life is killing  a human.  You can play the whole “he/she is not a person yet” but that’s just more grey in an attempt to obfuscate right and wrong.

Right and wrong are typically fairly black and white.  It normally only gets grey when what we want clashes with what is right. And to a great degree that is human nature and a nature we must always battle to be better humans.

Now someone will say, what about rape and incest?!?!?!?  It’s the same value vs. convenience calculation regardless of the reason.  The difficulty of a situation does not alter the right or wrong in it.  But you know what?  Take that argument.  If we can agree to cease birth control abortion then I will take that exchange since that eliminates the absolute vast majority of abortions in this country.

Life either has intrinsic value or it does not.  And any devaluation of life devalues all life.  Once someone fashions a “not a human wand” so they can kill another human then that rationalization will spread and can then be used by anyone else.  IE Hitler, IE Hamas, IE Mao etc etc

The observable roots of abortion and the birth control pill in this country, in large part, begin at Margaret Sanger.  She thought the world needed to help the poor by making sure there was just less of them to start with.  Unfortunately,  her idea has worked well given that Planned Parenthood (an abomination of a name) is most often in poor areas.  And in New York city they now abort more black children then they allow to be born.

While we began using this formula for the value of life that is based on inconvenience or difficulty for those who cannot defend themselves or even form a union to complain or protest it will not end there.  And it’s already started.  You see it on the news everyday where a person has decided that others are inhuman and their lives no longer have value (no that’s not always or even mostly mental illness).  If you wonder how we arrived at that point, look to where the ability to take away the value of someone’s life began in this country, abortion.

Some say the Devil’s greatest lie is to convince you he does not exist.  This could be.  But I think his most productive lie is that life is primarily about the self.