Wednesday, June 14, 2006

It's about fetal rights

One of the old arguments against abortion bans is that they don't stop all abortions. Okay then, since most laws don't stop the things they're supposed to, why not just eliminate them?

Of course, that's just being facetious. What opponents continually fail to take into account is that this is about FETAL RIGHTS. They cannot fathom, even in the most hypothetical sense that the debate is about the unborn child. Of course they can't. The moment it's about the unborn child, they know they loose. That's why they make it about EVERYTHING else but the unborn child. Unfortunately, for too long, pro-lifers have played that game, too. They call it the "abortion debate" as well, when it's not. So long as it's called "the abortion debate" pro-aborts won't understand what it's about.

This is a human rights movement. This is why we must treat it like one. Not make it about the actions of others, but about the intrinsic worth of the unborn child. That worth is on display: just ask any pregnant woman if she loves her unborn child. This movement is about making that recognition public. Are all these women crazy to love their unborn children? Or are they making stuff in their heads, really knowing it's a "blob of tissue" or "part of their body" or "a potential human" or any of the other erroneous euphemisms people use to justify legalized feticide? Of course women know they love a real being-- smaller and less developed, just like a baby, but still valuable. It is this love that disproves all the lies of the pro-abort movement. How can women who call themselves feminists treat women as stupid enough to love blobs? Clearly, women know that a fetus is worthy of human love.

This is the "crazy agenda" of the religious right. That unborn children are worthy of love. That they deserve respect. And we are met with the same tired excuses that have always justified human subjugation: it's none of your business: my property, my choice; they're not really human;or they're not as human; there's no other choice.

The same arguments over and over. But love wins out, when we acknowledge it.