Friday, October 19, 2007

Jay at LTI says it all about abortion

There is very little argument that the unborn, the terminally ill, the severely brain damaged, and the extreme elderly are not human beings. Some others may wish to quibble over their utility or their inclusion into the moral family of personhood, but no one really argues that they are not human beings. So what are we doing? In the case of abortion, we are terminating the lives of human beings in gruesome procedures because we find ourselves pregnant as a result of sex. Who cares that we all know that sex is the leading cause of pregnancy? We end the lives of human beings on a massive scale because the natural and expected human life that was begun as a result of our actions is not wanted. I know that there are hard cases such as rape and incest, but only an idiot would pretend they represent abortion. About 95% of the time, we just don’t want the baby. And so we kill the unborn human being. All of the rest of the arguing is to explain why that is okay. What we are doing is ending human life for convenience.

That's what it's all about. The woman is supreme, she gets to kill her baby for whatever reason she chooses. She's important because she's able-bodied and can speak and can invoke abstract notions like equality and autonomy.

The unborn child is just a blob. He's a nothing.

The abortion mentality assumes that human life is cheap.


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