Why Abortion Will Always Be An Important Issue
You have heard me say that liberalism is a threat to the fundamental American way. But the dangers of its threat go far beyond just a battle of ideas. The American left threatens even our rights as human beings by threatening the right to life itself. Without our freedom to live and pursue happiness, all other rights mean absolutely nothing.
The genius of our founding fathers was in creating a system of rights afforded to every American citizen without those rights ever infringing upon the rights of another. I cannot steal your property because you have the right to keep your property. I cannot take your life because you have the right to live. Our rights always end where another person’s rights begin. Legalized abortion destroys that entire constitutional system we have long believed in and upheld.
American liberals would love to see the issue of abortion swept under the rug once and for all. There is no issue in the politics of today that better illustrates their complete lack of values and their utter hypocrisy. They embrace the ideas of Margaret Sanger and Adolf Hitler and call it “progressive” and “compassionate”.
They pretend to shed tears for the unwed mothers and rape victims who have become pregnant with no care at all for the murdered millions. They fight for laws to protect children from secondhand smoke but support babies having their skulls crushed in the womb. They protest every death sentence given to a murderer but consider an innocent life nothing more than property of the mother. They will even get upset when we start cutting down trees as if the value of a tree is greater than the value of a human life.
Liberals hate to hear conservatives bring up the issue of abortion. They begin to frantically try and divert our attentions elsewhere by shouting ludicrous statements like, “What about the economy? What about health care? Why do you conservatives only care about abortion?” Issues like the War, the economy, and health care are extremely important issues but never in comparison to abortion. Abortion should be a prominent issue always because it is an attack on our most fundamental right: Life. Who cares about the economy when people are not even given the right to live?!
I care about all of the issues and I address them, but you cannot pretend the issue of abortion does not matter simply because it makes you or your candidate look bad. Every person with any common sense knows that “abortion rights” is an oxymoron generally spewing from the mouth of a moron. The reason this issue of abortion is so important is because we are denying the value of human life and allowing the rights of one person to infringe upon another without any consequences. How could that not be an important issue?
I know we are a selfish people but have we honestly given up altogether on defending the helpless? Are our hearts really so hardened that we don’t care as long as it doesn’t affect our own personal rights?
In 1973, we saw a mere seven men accomplish the greatest attack on our constitutional rights that we have ever seen in our history. While men of the past and present have given their own lives to defend our individual freedoms, we repay them by completely disregarding the liberties of millions of unborn children. You may try to convince yourself that the unborn are not human, but what makes the unborn less of a human than those who are already born?
Is it their size or physical appearance? Well, do humans lose value when they are smaller or don’t look the same? Is it their level of development? Well, do we forfeit our rights as human beings because we don’t have the capabilities that others have? Is it their environment? Well, do humans forfeit their worth when they change locations? Is it their degree of dependency? Well, is human value determined by our degree of dependency on others? We all depend on someone in some way. Any argument you could make to suggest the unborn are less human or of less value than anyone else is absurd and has no place in logical reasoning.
Anytime the rights of two or more people stand in contradiction to each other, it is the role of the government to protect the one with the more fundamental right. For instance, pedestrians in the street have the right of way because they have far more to lose if a car fails to yield. When it comes to the issue at hand, the unborn child is the pedestrian. In order for a mother to invoke her “right” to convenience, another human being must die. That’s legal insanity!
For starters, no one has ever been given the right to convenience. On the contrary, we all have the right to live according to the Constitution and good old fashion common sense. Secondly, the unborn child is protected by law through fetal homicide laws and so forth. Only in the case of a mother who, even if it is on a whim, decides she doesn’t want to carry the child for the full term, is it legal for an unborn child to be harmed. Does that make sense?
How about this? If a woman is on her way to the abortion clinic and a strange man punches her in the stomach resulting in the death of the unborn baby, he will be charged with “killing a human being” according to the law. He hasn’t violated the rights of the woman because she wanted the baby dead. He violated the rights of that unborn HUMAN BEING. That child is an American citizen, protected by the Constitution and the authority of the law, with one ridiculous exception. If a selfish, disgraceful mother decides a child is nothing more than “her property” then that child loses all rights.
In what universe can a pro-abortionist claim to care anything about human rights when they do not even support the right for humans to live? Liberals continue to compose themselves as a people of compassion often suggesting that if we ban abortions then desperate, pregnant women will be getting back-alley abortions all over the country. Are you serious? Getting pregnant is a choice. They may not have wanted to get pregnant but they made the choice to have sex and understood the risks. Even in cases of rape, the rapist is the guilty party, not the baby who was conceived.
Do people honestly not see the slippery slope here? We now have a presidential aspirant who believes it is okay to allow a baby born alive after a botched abortion to be neglected until he/she dies. How is that baby any longer infringing upon the so-called “rights” of the mother? The issue of abortion has never been about rights or privacy. Taking away the glamor of terms like pro-choice, it has always been murder for convenience.
I pray that God will forgive this great abomination of ours. If there is any reason to judge a nation, it would be the killing of more than 1.3 million children a year. While liberals may call themselves merciful, this sin of abortion was born out of pure evil. Mere humans came to embrace the idea that we could play God and build a superior human race by weeding out all of the bad specimens. It’s sad that proponents of eugenics ever gained any ground here in America, but it’s even worse to see it has become commonplace in our society today.
Before anyone leaves a comment in retaliation, I have one request. Answer this question: Can you prove that an unborn child is not yet human or not yet alive? If not, don’t bother wasting your time. I support your right to disagree and say what you want, even if you do not support another person’s right to live, but as it stands in this country, every person is innocent until proven guilty. So, until you can prove an unborn child is not human, we should err on the side of caution and allow all children to live. Furthermore, if you cannot prove that, we have nothing more to discuss.
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I have no comment on this thread because as I learned on the other abortion topic that was posted not even a week ago, its a subject that brings up such deep seeded emotions, and there’s no way either side is going to convince the other any differently.
I always thought of abortion as a basically selfish act—I want to live my life my way without having the inconvenience of a child… Now, I’m starting to wonder if it isn’t also an act of self-hate—no child of mine could really be of enough worth to sacrifice my figure, my life-style, etc.
Extremely well written Jeremy. Spot on!
You’re absolutely right, txtransplant. Thanks, Amanda (our future vice president).
As my husband and I discussed the other thread last night, we struggled to come up with words to express many of the concepts you so eloquently explained in this post. Well, done, Jeremy.
I would like to add one thing, in relation to the argument that if abortion were illegal, there would suddenly be thousands of women dying in “back-alley” abortion. I know a few young women who have had abortions, some who felt at the time that they had no real alternative, and at least one who had repeated abortions because “birth control didn’t work” for her. I have no doubts, though, that if having an abortion had put their own lives at risk, they would not have done it. If abortion is a self-serving act (as it must be by definition), then that woman is seldom going to sacrifice her well-being to a risky abortion. I’m not saying it would never happen (I’m not that naive), but it would definitely be in lesser numbers than the countless babies being lost every day now.
I know as I write this that I’m not going to convince anyone through my words…only by God’s grace will people have light shone on the truth… but I would like to ask anyone who says that they are “personally against abortion” but still believe that it should be legal, and be an individual choice…
Why are you personally against abortion? What is it about abortion that you don’t like? Do you believe that it is wrong? That a living child’s life is ended? If so, how can it be wrong, and yet you still say that it’s ok? There are some issues in this world on which you have to take a stand, and if you aren’t willing to condemn something, then you must be condoning it.
This is my last comment on this blog. It was passed along to me that the reason I’ve had so many problems with Christians is because I was a children’s pastor, and shouldn’t have been one at all because I am female.
Honestly, how dare you excuse people’s horrific behavior because of your sexist views. I have absolutely no time to listen to what anyone has to say who so openly practices sexism.
I’ll tell you why I’ve had problems with Christians. Because they were selfish who cared about no one else but themselves. And my experiences that followed showed me how judgmental they are, which has been shown repeatedly on this blog as well. But, I continued coming for conversation.
But, I’m not going to go somewhere in which I will be judged according to my gender and treated like I am lesser than because of my gender. It’s not 1832. Most people in society have begun to realize how ridiculous the sexism of the past is. Religion is one thing that keeps causing it to remain.
I don’t think Eric quoted me quite right.
First, can I please get an answer from Eric about how I’m not really for Human Rights?
Second, what is Lesile referring to? Where did sexist talk every come up, did I miss something?
Eric and I were talking off-site last night and that’s what Leslie was referring to.