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The trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell has raised issues concerning the safety and “proper operation” of abortion clinics. Yet the press, with a few exceptions, is strangely silent. The press is often eager to do undercover investigations in health care facilities suspected of mistreating patients, but the same press is quick to condemn similar undercover operations by pro-life advocates in abortion clinics. These two instances of hypocrisy reveal the abortion lobby for the evil that it is. Many of them never cared about the health of the woman as they claimed.
During the 1960s debate that paved the way for the tragic Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973, abortion advocates constantly harped about “back alley abortions” and claimed to be concerned about the health of women getting unsafe abortions. They claimed that legal clinics would allow “safe abortions” to take place. After abortion was legalized and became so rampant, the abortion lobby behaved as a set of religious believers, with abortion advocacy becoming canon law in the Democratic Party and abortion itself becoming a liberal sacrament, “the body and the blood.” When there are well-documented claims of safety violations or excessive patient deaths (other than the children murdered) at abortion clinics, the left either ignores or downplays them and tends not to openly advocate aggressive prosecution of offending “doctors.” Even though women die in unsafe clinics, abortion advocates would rather stifle anything that could be used to criticize their evil sacrament than to protect the health of the women about whom they claim to care.
Abortion rights were always about selfishness. The rabid individualism of American society, once it became unfettered from religion, was bound to allow the evil of abortion to be legalized. Couples could then have sex freely, and if birth control failed, abortion was seen as an alternative to allow promiscuity to continue. It is no surprise that a high percentage of abortion supporters are young men aged 18-35. They want to have sex with women without any consequences, and if the woman goes through an abortion, they don’t care. If feminists really cared about male exploitation of women, they would care about the way abortion supports men sexually using women. But most feminists (outside “Feminists for Life“) rabidly support abortion.
Abortion is also about power–power over the most vulnerable members of society. If these individuals “get in our way,” we can get rid of them. That is the real agenda behind many, and I would say most, abortion supporters–power over people who interfere with one’s selfish, extreme individualistic, aims. Even Europe, with its collapsing tomb of Christian belief, has fewer abortions per capita than the United States, and even many secular Europeans (outside the UK) are shocked at the high abortion rate in the United States.
Let’s label abortion for what it is–the murder of innocent human life for our “convenience.” Abortion advocates should stop pretending to care about the health and well-being of the woman who gets an abortion. They are hiding their real agenda in a cloak of lies.
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May 05, 2013 @ 19:55:55
Native Americans, blacks, criminals, unborned children and soon the elderly . . people in these classes have been, are, or will be thinned/culled in the future to solve one problem or another. Considering the cost and nuisance created by most older people, great financial savings could be realized by placing a limit on how much medical care they can receive after they start getting Social Secruity. As a society we have an abundance of evidence that officials in positions of power are willing to come up with the “right” ideas to deal with socially incovenient people.
What has happened is that the perspective of the human being has been replaced by the perspective of the corporation. And the government. The Citizens are no longer Sovereign. Corporate entities do not have innate empathy and see no profit or power to be gained by acquiring it. Readers of science fiction should recognize the world we are in.
The train carrying the Silent Generation will probably reach its destination. Those that follow will find themselves in a strange and rather inhuman reality.
There will nothing to rely on and no safe environements. The realm of Pluto. The life of shades.
May 06, 2013 @ 17:48:53
The course taken by the United States was probably inevitable since the War between the States helped create corporate giants that were precursors of those with such power today. Add American selfish individualism and there is a prescription for getting rid of the inconvenient, those who do not fit into self-centered people’s plans. I don’t know if we’re in Brave New World or 1984 or Animal Farm–probably a mix of all three.
May 11, 2013 @ 04:36:27
Along those lines: “Truth talker Chris Hedges describes the symptoms of the rapidly approaching last stage of Bondage ~ for it will indeed be marked by The Death of Truth “The world has been turned upside down. The pestilence of corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly over the earth. The criminals have seized power. It is not, in the end, simply Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative, to expose the big lie of the global corporate state. The persecution of Assange and Manning is the harbinger of what is to come, the rise of a bitter world where criminals in Brooks Brothers suits and gangsters in beribboned military uniforms ~ propped up by a vast internal and external security apparatus, a compliant press and a morally bankrupt political elite ~ monitor and crush those who dissent. Writers, artists, actors, journalists, scientists, intellectuals and workers will be forced to obey or thrown into bondage. I fear for Julian Assange. I fear for Bradley Manning. I fear for us all”” from The Nine Stages of Civilization – We’re Entering the Eighth, Dependence http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/10/the-nine-stages-of-civilization-were-entering-the-eighth-dependence
An interesting article.
May 14, 2013 @ 19:24:59
John, that was a depressing article, but I’m afraid it’s accurate. The writers of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, have also noted that 200 years is about the maximum duration of a Republic, and that we are nearing the end of Western Civilization. Shamefully, so many of the barbarians destroying the United States, Canada, and Western Europe are from academia, the area in which I work. With the Obama Administration (the Justice Department and the Department of Education) now requiring all colleges and universities receiving federal funds to set up speech codes, including overly-strict sexual harassment policies that make everyone guilty, American academia is in its last gasp before the barbarians finally win. I don’t even recognize my country any more. God help us.
May 14, 2013 @ 21:08:15
Yes, it is pretty astounding what these people have gotten away with. Recently I placed a comment on a political site–The Guardian, which has commentors from all over the world that read English. I challenged the idea that slavery was the real issue of the Civil War or better War Between The States. I said it was money. Unfortunately at the time I did not have For Good And Evil on hand by Charles Adams. Later a chapter in that book was turned into another book: When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession. That plus Lincoln Unmasked presents a very different picture but one that does not support the virtue of the North or Lincoln. And the blacks get lied to to make them feel good? This is contemporary education. Not truth but good feelings.
At a minimum an abortion in the third tri-semester should require a doctor’s and judge’s okay. Maybe all abortions should be videoed. It’s bad business no matter how you view it.
May 31, 2013 @ 04:02:09
For rather obvious reasons many articles are now appearing on usury. Usury was once considered a sin on a level with murder! But gradually allowed by the Church in a sly fashion I would say, Here is an excellent article with quotes from Aristotle, Aquinas and even linking some modern attitudes on sodomy and usury to Bentham. Sex, Economics, and Austerity—http://prospect.org/article/sex-economics-and-austerity The author is a Canadian scholar. Once one little thing slips then another and another does.
I think you will find this article quite illuminating with its connection to Adam Smith.
I see abortion as simply part of this whole trend that started probably with the Renaisance. Or earlier?
Jun 08, 2013 @ 20:49:21
Judge John Noonan argues that the church’s changing its teaching on usury was a compassionate change analogous to the church’s changing its position on slavery. I would have to read his overall argument to see how well it works.
Jun 04, 2013 @ 03:21:57
This is the best thing I have come across on abortion: Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr. writes: “The underlying premise in the arguments pro-abortionists give against fetal personhood is that non-persons can change into persons. They are saying that a living being can undergo a radical, essential change in its nature during its lifetime. But there is a logical problem here. If the change was biologically inevitable from conception, given time, then this change is not a change in essential nature. This is because if the being naturally initiates the change, it must be in its nature from the beginning to do so. If it is in its nature to do so, then despite any changes in such characteristics as independence, place of residence, physical development, or demonstration of mental ability, what the being is in later life is what the being is from the beginning of its life. This means that if we are persons with the right to be free from aggression later in life, we are persons even at conception.” 12
Jun 08, 2013 @ 20:43:11
Thank you for that quotation. It cuts through the bull on this issue. I doubt those who deny there is such a thing as human nature would but they are so irrational about the only thing to do with them is have a beer with them.