Killing Life
It is certainly a truism that the Corona virus plague is not
only causing difficulties for everyone, people are dying from it. Responses to these deaths, over 70,000 in the
U.S. in early May, are met with horror
in some quarters, with calls to keep the country locked down on the one hand,
and on the other hand, reminders that “conventional” flu, driving a car, and
many other things we do are as just as dangerous as this virus is, or more so..
Both sides forget the most massive plague in human existence;
a plague that dwarfs Covid-19, that dwarfs HIV/AIDS, that dwarfs car
fatalities, that makes firearms deaths miniscule by comparison, that in fact
kills more than all of the pandemics in recent history. That plague is the legal killing of unborn
and nearly born babies. That plague is
“abortion”. Abortion has killed more
than 46 million helpless infants in the U.S. since 1970, and kills over 600,000
per year Makes the Corona virus look
sort of puny, doesn’t it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States
Abortion is killing helpless life. It is not a euphemism like “reproductive health”,
or “women’s rights”, or “sexual health”, or “removing an unwanted biomass”, or
“my body, my choice”. It is killing the
life that science (not religion) tells us starts with the zygote, which
contains all of the new being’s DNA, which forms when the egg divides. Killing the innocent result of extraneous
human actions can only be deemed as immoral.
Killing innocent life is legal in this country and in much
of the world. Efforts to curtail some of
the more gruesome aspects of abortion purveyor “Planned Parenthood”, like
trading in human baby cells and body parts, are met with loud howls of protest
from our increasingly Godless, secular left wing. https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/05/court-hearing-planned-parenthood-employee-admits-trafficking-baby-body-parts/
Remember the Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation hearings? A whole slanderous scenario was concocted by
Dianne Feinstein and other congressional leftists and their media allies, to
literally crucify Judge Brett Kavanaugh because he was thought to harbor legal
opinions that might have been critical of abortion. The confirmation hearings were made lurid by
the irresponsible and fawning left wing media, and all we were exposed to for
months were accusations about the “serial rapist”, Judge Kavanaugh. But the real reason the left went after him
with such a vengeance, is the chance that he may have held anti-abortion views.
There may be medically and sociologically valid reasons for aborting
a birth, including rape and incest, malformities, etc. But even in these cases, the unborn child has
no input into how it got there. So, we
kill it to assuage our own consternation and guilt at the situation, not
because the fetus presents any danger to society.
Roe v Wade drew on the 14th amendment to define a
woman’s right to abortion, but abortion may be restricted by the individual
states to varying degrees. This has
created a patchwork of state laws concerning abortion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States_by_state.
The debate around abortion continues, with heated arguments,
and sometimes, violence, from both sides.
The left is locked into die-hard support of abortion, claiming that 70%
of the country condones it. The right,
and many religious groups are against it, and working to repeal the laws
supporting abortion. Society waxes and
wanes between liberal and more conservative mind sets. The observation is that we inexorably trend
to the more liberal left with time, so one can posit that the killing of life
is not yet done in this country. It may
be interrupted at times, but never fully stopped.
Ray Gruszecki
May 5, 2020
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