First…….a disclaimer………I am against abortion. You probably suspected.
I regularly am accused of being a “one issue voter”.
And I am.
I cannot vote for any candidate who supports abortion………no matter how excellent they are otherwise.
WHY?
When making a difficult decision I often list the pros vs. the cons. You should try this.
Take a sheet of paper, make a “Pro” column and a “Con” column. Here is an example.
Pro
Good for the environment
Fights climate change
Pro workers
Good health care for all
Pro women’s rights
Supports LGBT
Grows the “safety net”
Welcomes refugees/immigrants
Helps the poor
Equal rights
Supports fair housing
Equal pay for equal work
Con
Kills 3000 children a day, every day
In order to support abortion, you must believe one of two things.
1. Abortion does not kill a child
or, failing that
2. Killing the child is justified.
Moreover, you have to be absolutely sure…….. because thousands of lives are at stake every day.
My challenge is this:
Spend a day studying a 16 week baby: what he is, what she does…………….what they FEEL.
Then spend a day studying what a first trimester abortion does from the perspective of the baby. Keep in mind that the baby receives no pain relief as he or she is dismembered.
Then answer the two questions. If you cannot say with absolute certainty that abortion does not kill the child……or failing that……..that the killing is justified, then you are endorsing an act that makes the Holocaust pale in comparison.
As of this year 60 million babies have been aborted in America alone (3000 a day). That is 1/3 of my children’s entire generation…….1/3 of the men that my granddaughters could have chosen for husbands have been killed. That is roughly equal to the population of the U.S. west of the Mississippi if you exclude Texas, California, and Louisiana.
Of those 60 million abortions, 30 million were women……..killed in the name of women’s rights.
Almost half of the aborted babies are black. Abortion is by far the leading cause of death in the black community, more than all other causes combined.
During the Civil War, if you asked a southerner what he was fighting for, he would have said “state’s rights”. Sounds noble. But, if you drill down a bit, the specific right that he was defending was the right to enslave a man based on his skin color, to kill him with impunity, to rape his wife, and then to sell her child. We now recognize slavery as a horrible crime. There is no difference between the logic defending slavery in 1860 and the logic defending abortion today. The arguments used to justify slavery and abortion are identical.
The only logically valid arguments in support of abortion are very simple.
Either
Abortion is right because……….we want it.
Or
Killing a child is justified in order to achieve a “greater good”.
As an aside, over 20 million of the children killed by abortion would have been of voting age for the 2016 election. They would have been disproportionately black and would have been disproportionately from liberal households. Did you ever wonder who would be president today, if they had been there to vote?