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What
Planet Are They Living On?
Part Two of Three
Since today's edition is a three-parter, let me make Part Two
brief. In Part One I talked about
the mantra certain segments of the pro-abortion leadership of
the Democratic Party are chanting.
It goes by lots of names but exists to serve only one purpose:
to pretend to be serious about reducing the number of abortions
at the same time it attacks measures already proven to reduce
the killing and propose legislation the only possible result of
which would be a huge increase in the number of dead babies.
But even though this is enough to give insincerity a bad name,
some of the "pro-choice" set find this evidence of
"a certain creeping Religious
Rightism in the Democratic Party," as one blogger put it with (I
assume) a straight face. I found a particular amusing example at
something called "religiondispatches," home to such "pro-choice"
religious luminaries as Frances Kissling, formerly President of
the oxymoronically named Catholics for a Free Choice.
There are lots of
interesting arguments, none of which particularly persuasive,
but one that piqued my interest. It underpins so much of the
pro-abortion view it is worth taking a moment to at least
discuss briefly.
It is what the authors of
the piece [found at
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/humanrights/1290/grasping_at_straws%3A_the_problem_with_common_ground_on_abortion]
ever- so-moderately call "the fifth-century religious view of
women." By that they mean presenting women "as victims, unable
to make choices about what is best when they decide to be sexual
and when they are pregnant. In the truly progressive faith
community, we hold that women have a right as moral agents to
decide what is morally best when they face unintended pregnancy
and we believe that women are not by and large victims. They are
the authors of their lives."
This would be almost funny if it were not so
dangerously unconnected to the world. The irony is that
pro-abortion critics of pro-lifers in general and crisis
pregnancy centers in particular puff their chests out in pride
at their supposedly superior worldliness. They understand the
way the world "really works," unlike those sheltered pro-lifers.
But if you've worked at a CPC for more than about
ten minutes or listened to the stories of women emotionally
scarred by their abortion for more than a nanosecond, you know
the "moral agents" gibberish is as irritating as it is
delusional. You know that (a) so very often pregnant women are
emotionally and financially blackmailed in the most unsubtle
ways imaginable into abortions they desperately do not want,
and (b) it's awful hard to be the "author" of your life when
virtually every significant person in your life is telling you
it's "better for everyone" if you "get rid" of "it."
My goodness, what planet are they living on?
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comments on any or all of the columns to
daveandrusko@gmail.com.
Part Three
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