No Exceptions
You could call my views on child killing radical.
Even in cases of rape and incest, I do not believe the unborn baby should be killed. Is that clear enough? I’ll make it clearer. Even if a man rapes his 13-year-old daughter and impregnates her, the baby should live. He should not be “terminated” because of how and under whatever circumstances he was conceived. I see no justification, no matter how tragic the events, for killing the innocent, unborn baby.
It’s all black and white for me, no shades of gray. If you call yourself pro-life but make an exception in cases of rape and incest, you’re not pro-life. Dig?
I can see the e-mail now: “A child giving birth to her father’s child? You’re sick!”
Yes, I am sick. Sick of child killing, the self-centeredness, the disposable mentality, the lack of faith…
Margaret Sanger of the Blogosphere
Blogger Dawn Eden invoked the “feminist” Planned Parenthood founder and eugenicist in a post titled, “Margaret Sanger is alive and well and living in the blogosphere.” She linked to a blogger calling herself Radical Mother Mama [Update @ 1:11 p.m.: The blogger replaced the post with a Sylvia Plath poem. Had a feeling that would happen. Here's a copy of the original post.], who’s trying to convince a 15-year-old girl from a poor family to kill her baby. Dawn writes:
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger had a simple solution to poverty: kill unborn poor children.
Her spirit lives in blogger Radical Mama who, in a post called “Breaking the Cycle,” boasts of her ongoing attempts to convince a 15-year-old girl to abort against her mother’s wishes.
Radical Mama knows the girl, Julia, through the 4-H group to which the teen belonged. “I am trying to think about this [pregnancy] objectively, but I just can’t,” the blogger writes. “This is one of my kids. Isn’t this why I volunteer? To prevent this sh– from happening?”
(See my review of Dawn’s book, The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On)
Apparently, the pregnant girl’s father is an abusive drug addict. The girl would consider giving the baby up for adoption, however, Radical Mother Mama says:
I think that would be great except…She’s fifteen. How likely is it that after 9 months of pregnancy, and a labor, and then a little adorable baby being placed on her tummy…how likely is it that she will say good-bye?
Or will she think, “Hey look at that little thing that I made! I can do this, no problem.”
But as we all know, that adorable little baby turns into a tantruming toddler (at which point Julia would only be a senior in high school). And that’s just the beginning. What are the odds that the child turns into a 15-year old announcing her pregnancy?…When does this end?
Perhaps my focus is too laser sharp. In situations like this, I see THE BABY. From my perspective, the circumstances surrounding a pregnancy can never justify murdering the child. And I think it’s absolutely inhuman to believe otherwise. No set of facts, not even a deformity, would ever change my position: the unborn baby must live. At the very least, the pregnancy should be carried to term.
(More envisioned e-mail: “But what if the mother’s life is in danger and the only way to save her is to abort the baby?” I believe such cases are very rare in America in 2007.)
Also see:
- A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die
- Prenatal Test Puts Down Syndrome in Hard Focus
- Demand grows for children with Down syndrome
Why are my views so radical? Because I’m a Christian who trusts God (and I mean fully), even though my puny intellect can’t comprehend why things happen the way they do. I can’t see myself explaining to him, with a straight face, that the baby he placed in my womb had to be slaughtered because of X, Y, or Z.
But then again, I’m a relic, a weird-looking anachronism with strangely retro ideas. Born too late? Too soon? On the wrong planet?
The Real Margaret Sanger
In her 1922 book Pivot of Civilization, Sanger called for segregation of “morons, misfits, and the maladjusted” and sterilization of “genetically inferior races.” She also came up with a plan to reach the black community with her message. Under the “Negro Project,” she hatched a scheme to use black preachers and doctors to hype contraception, sterilization, and child killing.
She wrote, “The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want the word to get out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
(See Marching for Life and Against the Negro Project)
Ticks and Contraception
Last year I blogged about a pregnant “feminist” blogger who called her unborn child a “tick” She’s since password-protected her blog, so I have no idea if her precious baby got sucked through a vacuum, or what.
Over the years, readers have asked me about my views on contraception. I have mixed feelings about that. Here’s a rough outline: I think natural contraception is OK. Under the so-called fertility awareness method, for example, a woman abstains from intercourse when she’s most fertile if she wants to avoid pregnancy. Women can and should learn to read the signs of fertility. I won’t get into the particulars here. Suffice it to say, natural birth control probably is more effective if you’re with one, steady partner, i.e., your husband.
Birth control pills? I don’t know. Wait, yes I do. I believe life begins at conception. Once that sperm penetrates that egg, it’s on. If there’s a birth control pill on the market that impedes the sperm’s penetration every time, I grudgingly say, “OK.” But if there’s even the remotest possibility of fertilization, and the fertilized egg gets flushed out, I say, “No.” I’ve heard people refer to these as “mini-abortions.” I agree.
Look, I don’t run anything but this blog and my own life. Unfortunately, it’s legal in the United States to kill unborn babies for any reason. Do whatever you want. It’s your body. I’m not your judge. Just know this: the wrath is coming…
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