We Must Keep Fighting Abortion

Why do the Republicans keep going back to the well on abortion? All the recent activity on the matter is bound to go for naught; it's likely that any pro-life measure anywhere will be taken to the courts and found unconstitutional. So why bother?

To begin with, because abortion is a moral evil of so grave a nature that it must be fought. A pregnant woman is carrying a human baby whether she wants to admit it or not, and that life merits the same protection as any other life. Indeed, if you are unwilling to protect human life at its frailest, it is fair to question whether you have any real conviction towards the dignity of life at any other stage or under any other circumstances. If you will not protect life in the womb, then everything else you stand for is subject to question and doubt.

The abortion issue must somehow be kept on the table. To have many state legislatures working against it ensures this, even if they are subject to rejection by the courts. But keep pushing the question and one day, perhaps, the pro-life laws will actually be upheld when a better court is available.

Another reason is that the abortion issue is one of the few where the we have a cut and dried dispute between the two major parties: the GOP is against it, and the Democrats for it (by and large; we realize there are exceptions). Voters need clear choices so far as they can be had. This issue is an example of that, one which, again, we can draw useful conclusions about what else the parties might do or favor.

These may be the key reasons we must keep up the fight against abortion. The list is not limited to them nor exhausted. But it does give us starting points, and from there we may eventually end this modern American holocaust.

Selective Sex Abortion

We all knew it would happen. That is, any of us with a rational mind could see it coming. Now that abortion is so well ensconced as the law of the land, now women or couples (most likely women, because they hold the power within the issue) seek abortion simply because they don't like the sex of the child. Yet even the Republican controlled House couldn't see fit to stop the practice, and the feminists could care less, because to argue against such selective abortion would undermine the presumed right to one. Because if an abortion is okay, then the reason behind it is irrelevant.

Even if it's the selective abortion of girls. You know, the female humans who might take advantage of the procedure if they were allowed to be born (what a delightful irony that is; your own feminist mothers are taking away your rights, potential women!). The Chinese do it, because sons are seen as more valuable and, in a further condemnation of a world which sees birth control as a duty towards society and abortion merely an offshoot of that, wants to limit family size anyway to the point of enforced abortions. But again, if abortion is okay, what does that matter?

Even an aspect of the issue which libertarians might point towards, that forced abortions are bad because they violate personal rights, fails to show an adequate understanding of personal morality. They would, most libertarians would, anyway, allow selective sex abortions if unforced. The only difference between them and the Chinese is degree, and that ain't much. The tyranny of the individual is as bad as the tyranny of the state.

We are hard pressed to think of something more appalling than abortion simply because you don't like the gender of the child. Even abortion as abortion does not reek of, we will say it, the nonchalance of the evil involved when aborting simply because it's a girl when you want a boy, or vice versa. Abortion as abortion is simple murder. Selective sex abortion is worse than callous. It is social engineering writ small. It allows anyone who wants to be a little Hitler to be exactly that.

Yet we wonder what's wrong America, what's wrong with the world, today.