It was never about choice
A long time ago I asked a pro-choice friend, that if technology advanced to the point where an unborn baby could safely be transferred to the womb of another woman, allowing the original mother to "terminate" her pregnancy without terminating the life of the baby--would she then agree that abortion should be illegal. Her answer surprised me. She said no. It was still the woman's "choice", and that "choice" shouldn't be taken away.
I imagine if one were to pose that same question to the vats majority of pro-choice people, you'd get the same answer. Given the ability to end the pregnancy without ending the life of the baby, they'd still demand the right to end the life of the baby.
Because it has never been about choice.
China forces women to undergo abortions on a daily basis. Does Planned Parenthood or NARAL care? No.
Because it has never been about choice.
Underaged girls are being forced to have abortions by their molesters, a practice that can easily be stopped, but pro-choice forces scream bloody murder whenever anyone tries to ensure that underage girls are not forced to have abortions. Why?
Because it has never been about choice.
The real reason has always been that many people do not want there to be any power higher than the state. If there is nothing sacred, nothing define, then they can pretend that they themselves are the ultimate value, the highest authority, and that imagined autonomy would be reinforced by the state. That that actually makes the state god, they ignore, as long as they can maintain the illusion that there is no higher power than that which they can convince themselves that they can control. The one and only reason to not allow abortions would be that human life possess a value beyond what any single person or group of people can designate. The alternative would be to acquiesce to an authority outside our control.
The illusion that we are in control is too alluring for some people, and therefore they denigrate anything sacred to common. As C.S. Lewis put it...
"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful."
What the pro-choice crowd may never get is that by denigrating the value of the unborn, they denigrate the value of themselves as well. It's not a matter of gaining height for yourself by pushing down on another person or group, because when it comes to human dignity, that method always lowers both parties.
Posted by Danny Carlton at August 28, 2008 8:46 AM