I think we can most productively define abortion in the present era as “an elective outpatient procedure to remove unwanted fetal tissue”.
There was a time we could easily sympathize with women in desperate circumstances, hurting inside, unsure where to turn, deeply conflicted. Now the feeling I get is that most seem to view abortion as of no more moral or psychic importance than buying something from a vending machine.
I remember cringing when I learned about the Spartan practice of infanticide. Such CRUELTY throwing a new born off a cliff and leaving it to die, simply for being born defective.
But we are infinitely worse. We kill babies–as we are seemingly about to find out–even when they are viable simply because they are INCONVENIENT.
Is this not a lesson in alienation? How far from considering babies dispensable, from considering oneself unbound by intrinsic moral obligations, to considering EVERYONE disposable, and of interest only as temporary objects of amusement, emotionally shallow companionship, and utility?
Of such is Satanism built. It is the creed that we are born, live, and die in absolute and ineluctable isolation and solitude.
I read the proceeds of recent donations surrounding the
Satanic statue in Detroit were used to support baby killing. And why not? Such people view life itself as a disease.
I understand why people who self identify as “liberal” want to prevent a return to unsafe abortions, but I wonder if they are up to the moral task of fundamentally questioning the cultural of killing 100,000 or more unborn babies every year. Not all those women were the victims of unfortunate circumstances. It seems, on the contrary, obvious that a great many figured if they got pregnant, they could just get an abortion, which they did.
We see the term “Right to Life”, but it could as easily be respect for life. It seems obvious that Cecil the lion’s death bothered far more people on the Left than the prospect that whole human babies are being served up and paid for to support idiotic fetal stem cell research. Adult stem cells work. We know this. Fetal Stem cells don’t. We also know this.
I have for some time wondered where the fetal stem cells for research come from, and have always assumed something like this was going on. Now we know.