Abortion = Murder

Yesterday, after Church, Mrs. PolyKahr and I took our grand daughter out to give daughter and son-in-law a break. We went shopping, had lunch, went to the video arcade as a little treat for the grand daughter, and checked out a neighbor who keeps chickens. Despite numerous admonitions not to chase the chickens, I suspect it is an ingrained instinct for all children to do exactly that. In any case, all of that was to explain why I didn't catch Respect for Life: A Sunday Rumination on Eternity Road. For surely I would have immediately alerted you, to this post. A quote:

Yes, I said killing. There is no deontological distinction between a born baby, whose right to life we would automatically concede, and the unborn infant he was in his mother's womb. Killing the latter is just as morally heinous as killing the former, regardless of what the law might say here, there, or anywhere. There is complete continuity between them, and continuity is identity.

Which is a fancy way of saying that abortion is murder. There is no getting around it as Fran points out above. Go read the whole thing.

An argument that is often made in "defense" of abortion is that a woman should have the same choices as a man when it comes to sex. It isn't "fair" that a man has only such consequences as he agrees to take onto himself, while a woman has to bear 20 years of her consequences for all the world to see.

My,my, where to start?

Cosmic fairness, to use Thomas Sowell's term, can not be achieved in this world. The differing roles of the two sexes is an artifact of our evolution, and can not be changed. To discuss "fairness" in the face of obvious realities is to make an emotional appeal while changing the subject. Now, men do have an obligation here, and to the extent that social norms have broken down and allowed them to shirk their responsibilities, the law must step in and enforce the norms requiring financial support for the woman bearing his child. But the woman doesn't get off the hook either. It takes, as the saying goes, two to tango, and she has already had her choice. She doesn't get a "do over" because it isn't fair and besides, all men are pigs, or whatever the latest feminazi arguments say. Once that choice is made, and a child has formed out of the union of a man and a woman, they each have a duty and an obligation to provide parental care, love and support until the child is grown.

We formed a government in order to secure for ourselves life, liberty and property, I would argue in that order. Isn't it about time our government stood up and started defending life instead of engaging in the culture of death? For more reading from Francis Poretto, aka The Curmudgeon, please check out The Death Cults.