One of the hardest truths to face in the abortion debate is the deception. Advocates of legalized abortion keep beating the “choice” or the “rights” drum. If you think about it, that is not the issue. After all, everyone likes to have the freedom to make choices.
Conversely, pro-life people keep beating the “life” drum. Persistently we talk about brain waves and heartbeats. But that is not the issue when the other side already recognizes it is a life.
The issue is whether we should be able to kill some human lives.
In 1995, abortion rights advocate Naomi Wolf wrote, “I still maintain that we need to contextualize the fight to defend abortion rights within a moral framework that admits that the death of a fetus is a real death.”1Naomi Wolf. “Rethinking Abortion Rhetoric: Our Bodies, Our Souls.: The New Republic, October 16, 1995.
In 2008, abortion rights advocate Camille Paglia wrote, “I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue.”2Camille Paglia. “Fresh Blood for the Vampire.” Salon.com September 10, 2008. [ https://tinyurl.com/ykkafzdy accessed 11-6-23]
In 2013, abortion rights advocate Mary Elizabeth Williams wrote, “Here’s the complicated reality in which we live: All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.”3Mary Elizabeth Williams. “So what if abortion ends a life?” Salon.com January 23, 2013. [ https://tinyurl.com/ywkymsus accessed 11-6-23]
Some women have fallen for the lie that what is conceived is nothing more than a blob of tissue or a piece of parasitic growth within a woman. Once they learn about fetal brain waves, heartbeat, and fingerprints, many are overwhelmed with sorrow for having had an abortion.
Those driving the abortion rights movement, however, believe some lives are expendable. Some have further argued for the right to terminate defective newborns.4Virginia Ironside. October 4, 2010. [ https://tinyurl.com/yrklrupb accessed 11-6-23] Others advocate that the aging should die and get out of the way.5Richard Lamm. [ https://tinyurl.com/2682ofrw accessed 11-6-23]
So where does it end?
Who decides which life is valuable and which is not? Does being “wanted” or “unwanted” justify continued existence or termination?
God said, “There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life.” (Deuteronomy 32:39)
Advocates for killing of any sort, in the womb or outside of it, must be held accountable for their standards. What makes the unborn child more expendable than the born child, or the disabled child less valuable than a healthy child? Who decides? What are the criteria?
The time has come to demand the standard, which must be more substantial than just opinion.
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