Guest Column: safe, legal and what?
by freesnake on Jul.22, 2009, under National
The following presents an excellent argument regarding abortion, and is reprinted with permission from WhoisJohnGalt.com (a site worth a look):
For the libs, a question: Abortion, we are told, should be “safe, legal and rare.”
Why “rare”? Why not routine?
When Obama describes abortion as a “heart-wrenching” decision, why is this so? Why is it any different than trying to pick out a pair of shoes to wear?
You either believe it’s a human life, or you do not. If you do not believe it’s a human life, then there’s no reason for abortion to be “rare”; no reason for abortion to be a “heart-wrenching” decision. If you do believe a fetus is a human life, then aborting it is murder. Period.
One last question: When a woman has consensual sex (safe or otherwise), isn’t she exercising a choice? And if pregnancy is a logical result of her choice, isn’t it a bit hypocritical to argue that the right to life is an attack on choice?
Liberals wish to argue that abortion is a matter of “choice,” yet in the case of most pregnancies a clear choice has been made to risk conception. Pregnancy is not a denial or threat to choice, it is merely the reality of that risk.
Finally, there are supposedly two “irreconcilable” positions in play here. One claims that “it’s not a baby” while at the same time admitting its desire to make abortion “rare.” The same camp likens the consequences of choices to being denied a choice.
The other viewpoint says abortion is murder, and approaches the matter as such — consistently, and on principle.
I won’t take the position here of when life begins, or whether a fetus is a life worthy of protection. I don’t need to. All I need to see is that the liberal position, as usual, is complete rationalization; intellectual dishonesty.
Reconcile that.