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Don't be Fooled by the
Nonsense that Abortion is a “Wedge Issue"
Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening. Thanks for taking time to read TN&V. Part Two offers a careful rebuttal of the pro-abortion “documentary" titled “12th & Delaware." Part Three is an examination of the precipitous fall in support for ObamaCare and Obama. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), Wesley Smith talks about Peter Singer, Darlene Hart reminds you it's never too early, and I briefly mention a fascinating article about what might be happening to those of us chained to our computers/iPods. Please send your comments on any of the three parts of Today's News & Views and/or the three parts of National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are now following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha.
Let's think about that for a second--and please chime in with your thoughts at daveandrusko@gmail.com. Sure, I can be so emotional about abortion that I can't reason my way out of a paper bag. I make no apologies for the intensity of my resistance to the morally bereft notion that it's acceptable to take the lives of unborn children. But that gut-level objection to abortion is in support of and works in conjunction with the point-by-point case I make everyday to show why abortion is abhorrent at every level and to everyone involved--including the beleaguered mother. There is no conflict or contradiction between being passionately pro-life and thoughtfully outlining to our neighbors the ABCs of why they ought to become our colleagues. The subtext of the all-purpose “it's just a wedge issue" ploy is that abortion is simply not THAT big a deal. It doesn't rise to the magnitude of an issue worthy of deciding how we spent a considerable portion of our lives (in the case of activists) and certainly not a non-negotiable when it comes to whom we want to see in public office (for the average citizen). But, of course, abortion DOES justify that level of commitment. Tell me, what can be more important--short, medium, and long-term--than how a culture treats its next generation? They are our flesh and blood, whose existence we brought into being, whether intentionally or carelessly. Unborn lives are not like chalk on a blackboard that you can casually erase when no longer “wanted" We affirm with every corpuscle in our bodies that we are obliged to do everything that is legally, morally, and ethically possible to protect the little ones. We cannot accept that abortion is essentially inconsequential--a matter of mere opinion, like whether we choose Coke or Pepsi. To do so would be to diminish our own humanity just as abortion diminishes the humanity of our unborn brothers and sisters. The “wedge issue" stratagem, if you think about it, is about as cynical as it gets. Check your convictions the second you leave your house, we're told, so that their conviction--that it is perfectly acceptable to kill 1.2 million unborn babies a year--conveniently goes unchallenged. I'd appreciate your thoughts at daveandrusko@gmail.com. |
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I think about it, it doesn't really make any difference what the
area the abortion controversy is touching on--politics, ethics,
religion, popular culture--you name it. Backed up against the
wall, pro-abortionists reach for their all-purpose deflector:
abortion is nothing but a “wedge issue," one that is used
cynically. I was reminded of this drivel over the past few
months as we've been told that intense controversy over (fill in
the blank) supposedly had nothing to do with the merits of the
debate and everything to do with “appealing to people's
emotions" for “partisan advantage."