what’s in the womb is an individual human being (what else would it be, pray tell?); it’s always wrong to kill invidividual human beings (when they’re not guilty of any crime); therefore abortion is always wrong.

Of course, someone might want to say that there are no intrinsically immoral acts, and that good and evil are just a matter of consequences. But that utilitarian logic serves to justify any horror.

The same thing would apply even if someone said that it’s not all acts, but only the ones pertaining to sex and reproduction that are to be judged good or bad by their consequences. And anyway, why single out just those as utilitarian poster-children—unless you’ve got a sexual revolution axe to grind?

Needless to say, it’s God’s business, not ours, to judge the subjective guilt that a woman who has an abortion thereby incurs. But that changes nothing about the evil of the act itself.

Adrian

My thoughts the entire time I watched were of how anyone can see that and believe an abortion is not murder.

Unfortunately, the statistics are for everything, and nationwide they show the same thing: minority women have abortions at far higher rates than our numbers would suggest. Back during the “March for Women’s Lives” (ha) in April, I linked to some of the numbers directly from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research arm. The statistics also show that the *vast* majority of abortions (at least 95%) are not done for “health” issues, but rather reasons such as “already had desired number of children,” “wasn’t the right time,” etc. It’s distressing stuff.

“Evil’s still evil, by any other name”. – Don Henley, All She Wants to Do is Dance.

Michael

NOW represents MEDEA.

Not sure how many of you have seen these photos, they were widely circulated a few years ago. They are of spina bifida surgery in utero that saved a baby’s life. During the surgery, the fetus gripped the finger of the surgeon, and Life Magazine published a photo of it. Truly amazing, and a little grisly – they are surgery photos – but they are photos that I come back to time and again for the sheer miracle of life.

The last time the pro-choice movement converged on the capital for a major abortion-rights rally, in 1992, the scene was very different from Sunday’s March for Women’s Lives. Then, the crowd that filled the Mall was primarily white, female, and baby-boomer. Thousands held round blue signs that read keep abortion legal . Jesse Jackson and Jane Fonda were featured speakers. And the event was spearheaded by the National Organization for Women (NOW), which, after the disappearance of the Equal Rights Amendment as a national issue in 1983, made abortion a raison d’etre.

Cal Thomas – Jesse’s Loss of Moral Authority.”

I hope and pray for the day that this obscene practice will cease.

I watched Father John Neihaus speak today on C-Span. He chided the Catholic Church for allowing Catholics for having things both ways – holding to a theology of death and still receiving the sacraments of the Church.

As an Evangelical I’m also dismayed that far too few of our leaders are really speaking out against abortion. They seem to be too busy building megachurches.

Father Neihaus also sounded the warning that’s been forgotten by too many. Once you take/make the position that “viability” and “choice” are the determining factors in the matter of who lives or dies, you’ve descended into the darkness. It will only be matter of time from there till the old or the infirm or politcal enemies can be determined to be “non viable” the “choice” will be made to do away with them.