It says so, right there in the Declaration of Independence, in case you're wondering.
Ann Coulter's new book is out, and I'm loving it so far. GODLESS expounds quite a bit on what I've talked about on this web site for awhile. Namely, liberals don't believe in God. When you have no accountability to a higher power, you can pretty much do whatever you want to.
One of the things she discusses at some length is abortion. I confess, this is a topic that I didn't give much thought to until recent years. It didn't really affect me, one way or the other, or so I thought.
All that has changed, fairly dramatically. I used to think it was probably an ok idea. I mean, our population is drastically swelling, the people who seem to reporduce the most seem to contribute the sorriest people to the world, etc. I never really thought about the moral implications.
If one subscribes to the idea of a higher power, then abortion is murder, pure and simple. Let's use the word "murder" in its proper context. When I say murder, I mean a completely unjustified killing of an innocent life. You don't get any more innocent than a baby. And I also don't care what you say, when a woman gets pregnant, she's carrying a life. Not a fetus. Not a random collection of cells. Not anything else other than a baby. A person. Calling it something else is just a poor attempt at rationalizing its destruction. And I can think of no more selfish act than to have an abortion to avoid the consequences of casual sex. It goes back to ducking responsibility, to avoid dealing with the consequences of your actions. Again, if you take God out of the equation, justifying bad behavior comes pretty easily.
I guarantee that once you hear your baby's heart beat within the womb on a heart monitor, you can never again rationalize an abortion. Early within the first trimester, an ultrasound will show you a perfect little person developing in there, complete with facial features, hands, feet, and sexual organs. Tell me it's just a blob of cells, and I'll call you a liar and a fool. Because if you tell me there's any reason in the world for extinguishing this tiny, innocent, perfect life, you haven't thought it through. Either that or you're in the thrall of evil.
I'm all for killing in self-defense. I'm all for putting criminals to death. We need to do it a lot more than what we do. I'm even for preemptive killing of an enemy when it will save innocent lives on my side. Because that's what we should be all about: the preservation of innocent life. Break into my house and threaten my family, you deserve it when I shoot you. Attack my country, and expect the wrath of God to fall on you via the armed forces (thanks again guys). Kill somebody with no justification, expect to be killed back. You earned it.
A baby is tabula rasa. Its whole life is a glorious realm of endless possibilities. It could be the baby that cures cancer. It could be the person who solves the energy crisis. It could be the next Mozart. It could be just about anything, with the right guidance. There's the problem. You actually need a parent or two to help the child reach its full potential. That's a whole other post, though. However; even with the sorriest parents on the planet, there's a chance for that baby.
A baby has done nothing wrong. It didn't ask to be born, but it will fight with all its little heart to hold on to life, once it has it. It has done nothing to deserve death. To speculate that it will suffer if allowed to live in a bad home is claiming that you can see into the future. We can't say that with any certainty. Because where there's life; there's hope. There's a chance for God to work one of his patented little miracles. There's a soul that the Holy Spirit can touch. That's worth preserving, at all costs.
Ann Coulter makes another great point in her book. How odd is it that liberals can justify the murder of a purely innocent life through abortion, yet cannot abide killing those who actually deserve it? She further postulates that liberals might buy into the death penalty if we simply label it, "late-term abortion."
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Like you, my view of abortion has radically changed. In college, I didn’t give much thought to it. When, by chance, I did think about it, I thought it would be okay because a pregnancy, and hence a child, would trample on MY goals and MY future plans. There would be no college degree, no grad school, and no obtaining professional licenses if I had a child at that point in my life, or it would take much too long to achieve those goals. Thankfully during those years, I was never in a position where I had to make that decision and am not sure if I could have gone through all that the abortion procedure entails (which is a whole other blog posting/comment that would be too gruesome to read).
So, I was able to pursue MY dreams and more schooling, which taught me new thought processes and enlightened me on what abortion really is: the killing of an innocent person who is defenseless to protect himself/herself. I look back in disgust on those days when I thought any other way.
The thing that sticks out, and that I want to highlight, is the selfishness of abortion. That was what led me to initially hold a viewpoint that it was okay; it was all about ME and what I wanted. The majority of abortions are based solely on that proposition–-the parents’ belief that their agenda and plans are more important, for whatever reason, than this new life and what he/she could do. And, along with this selfishness comes the desire to avoid the consequences. As we all know, one potential “consequence” of sex is a baby. This isn’t anything new; yet so many act as if they can just do away with this consequence, not with protection/prevention but with destruction after the life has already been produced. How sad this is in light of the number of couples waiting to adopt a baby.
This was the long way of saying that from what I’ve heard about Ann Coulter’s new book (via her interview on a Christian radio station), she’s right on the mark and people need to start calling a spade a spade and hence a liberal an atheist.
I agree completely. It's funny; but at the time, you don't really think of it as selfishness, it's justified in so many ways: I need to get through school, what kind of life will I have otherwise, etc. Maturity; fortunately, brings with it a whole new persepctive.
I do wish at times that I could go back 15 years and live it with what expereince has taught me. I'd be better off, and be a better person. But that wasn't the plan.
I learned one thing, though: don't beat yourself up over what happened in the past, or how you thought in the past, or how you could have changed things if you got the chance to do it over again. That's the way we get lured away from God's purpose for us. We all have to learn, unfortunately.
As to calling a spade a spade, that's exactly right. People nowadays are lambasted because they speak out on things, and it hurts somebody's feelings, or it doesn't sound politicallty correct, etc. It's time conservatives started calling things what they are: illegal immigrants are criminals, liberals are atheists and/or socialists. We need less political correctness, and more honestly confronting problems. That means calling things by what they truly are.
Again, I agree. Following your lead, I would urge conservatives to stand up for the movie that rec'd a PG rating a few weeks ago for its spirituality content. See http://newsbusters.org/node/5801
Yet another sign of how the movie industry atheists are simply out of control. How far will they go to get their agenda to the people? Will they ban movies with conservative values from the theatres? Surely the pendulum will swing back at some point, but I think it is going to take some conservative uproars to get it going.
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