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Tuesday, February 08, 2000 Page: 6A
A SAYSO caller said there is no con flict in believing that abortion is
wrong while still supporting a woman’s right to choose. It almost seems as if
the caller is attempting to equivocate with the old saying that was often
quoted during Vietnam hawk vs. dove debates: While I don’t agree with a word
you say, I’ll defend to the death your right to say it. But these two issues
are on completely different planes.
A person cannot simultaneously hold that killing innocent life is wrong,
but that people have a defensible right to choose to do it – without being
morally or logically challenged. Lincoln articulated this principle that you
cannot have the right to do wrong.
The pro-abortion lobby – please don’t waste your breath or my time calling
it the pro-choice lobby – understands this very well and so has worked long
and hard to dehumanize our ideas of pre-natal life. If we think of the
developing life at all, they’ve wanted us to think of it in primitive and
ignorant terms. Rarely do the American media highlight the knowledge pouring
in from the life sciences revealing the previously unknown and unsuspected
intricacy, complexity, uniqueness, awareness and humaness of pre-natal life.
When these discoveries are mentioned it is in the context of cloning and
embryonic tissues for spare body parts and of money to be made in bio-tech
investments.
What is also being dehumanized is our society and our children. Our culture
is now a couple generations into hugely successful efforts to excise the
virtues of chastity and fidelity from that of love. Filling the virtue void
are the modern, savvy and sex-educated kids who “know” that they are subject
to animal-based, hormone-driven lusts and appetites and that to deny them is
to be ignorant, repressed, unfulfilled and unpopular. Sad.
Over 38 million lives are not all that we Americans have aborted.
Mary Blanc
Dallas