I have always found it bizarre that my liberal friends, whose vegetarianism, animal rights activism, or environmentalism is founded on their concern for the lives of animals and the health of the earth, can rarely concede that pro-lifers at least have a point about the sanctity of human life. If whales and trees have an intrinsic value worth protecting, why not at least consider the same arguments for unborn human beings? The heated politics of being “pro-choice” has always overshadowed this blatant hypocrisy and has made rational debate next to impossible.
I have also always found it bizarre that some of the most pro-war Americans are pro-lifers. To be passionate enough to protest on a street corner in the hopes that you might save lives is something I can understand. Yet for pro-lifers to consistently and enthusiastically vote for leaders whose foreign policies will admittedly lead to the deaths of thousands of civilians — women, children, babies — in order to achieve political objectives is something I cannot understand. “It’s a Child Not a Choice”? How about “It’s a Kid Not Collateral Damage”?
The pro-lifers I met that day all agreed that when it comes to supporting the Iraq war, the ends justify the deadly means, and yet they dedicate their lives to convincing pregnant women that no matter how desperate their situation, deadly solutions are never acceptable. According to some pro-lifers, political objectives can be worth thousands of deaths, while individual objectives are never worth one.
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A law that establishes human life as beginning at conception is fair only when both men and women are willing to share the same level of responsibility to “life” before and after birth. Such a law would enforce motherhood, of course, but would also require DNA analysis to determine the father and garnishee his wages to pay for half the real cost of rearing a child through college. Otherwise, it’s the same old game of it takes two to play, but only one has to pay.
You are right Jack. It’s a weird position to celebrate the death of thousands of children on the fringe of our Empire, while claiming pro life? And your thoughts on animal activists are spot-on as well. As a christian, I actualy believe that a high percentage of christians actually vote THEIR CHECKBOOKS and talk as much rheteric as the politicians themselves! The christian commands of “Building Treasures in heaven instead of on earth” is lost in America, as we now worship “Democracy and Consumerism.”