I wrote this several years ago, and obviously before Roe was overturned.
The case against abortion rightly focuses on the harm to the unborn. But what does the abortion culture do to us?
It desensitizes us. I hardly need illustrate this point. A comedienne recently celebrated abortion via patriotic parody on Netflix. Basically nice people put on vagina hats, put vagina hats on their minor female kids, march them along to protest in the streets, enjoying the tribe vibe, then go back to work and school and friendly society sure of their moral superiority while nurturing a constant state of rage against their family and friends who believe that life is a right belonging to all human beings.
It dehumanizes us. We keep our human status, but we lose the context for what it is to be human. We lose the criteria for deciding what being human is. We lose that because we trash it. We must, if we decide to create castes in which some humans are human and some are not. If personhood must be relative, then we will end by re-evaluating all persons’ personhood, according to what scale I try not to imagine.
It makes us elitists. When we throw in with abortion culture and accept it as necessary, we reveal that we are rank elitists because we have decided that we have the right to declare who is human and who is not, who is a person and who is not, who is “viable” and who is not. Viability is an arbitrary and ever-shifting goalpost if there ever was one. And if the doctor was incorrect about viability, he will sometimes impose non-viability without prejudice. This happens. We decide who lives and who dies.
Abortion infantilizes us. When we grow up, we learn that things happen which we didn’t plan for. Sometimes we should have forseen the consequences of our actions, and sometimes unforseen things present themselves regardless of our actions. Whichever the case, we must meet life’s challenges, take responsibility, and make the best outcome we can, though perhaps no possible outcome is what we would have chosen. Life isn’t perfect.
The abortion culture has taught us that if we face a challenge that we find too great, or even too inconvenient, there is a panacea which will take our circumstances right back to where they were before that interruption. No consequences are tolerated, and if there are consequences we must be victims of an oppressor. Blame must be assigned. We have learned to expect life to clear itself up so we can get back to our comfort. It’s a childish perspective. The abortion culture makes us children.
Abortion culture makes us relativize killing. Is abortion killing? Is this a human, is this living? Is this kind of killing justified? How can I make this killing OK?
It’s a bad place to find ourselves.
Abortion destroys us. A culture which endorses abortion destroys itself. Proverbs 8:36 declares: Those who hate me love death. That culture has put death on the menu. It has made death one essential option. And once we approve of death as a tool, an instrument of expedience, a means to an end, we cannot put it away. We give death a kind of life and it may have its way with us.
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Madblog this was extremely well written and even more relevant I’d say today than when you first wrote it. My views have shifted quite a bit about abortion over the years. My first thoughts about it defaulted automatically to “my body, my choice” and I thought pro lifers were ignorant and wanting to control women. I look back at how selfish and I grant I was back then and just cringe. I ow think very ifferently about it.
Abortion is such a complicated topic and requires nuanced, critical thinking, something the left is just incapable of doing. I’ve been telling people that this decision, is good for the country as a whole, whether you are pro life, or pro abortion. The debate we needed to have 50 years ago can finally occur and expel can decide for themselves who to vote for in their respective states.
SCOTUS’s decision will bring less aborted babies and more freedom for the individual. That’s why the left hates it so much,
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That’s a big like I gave your comment. NOW we can get to work on supporting women who were given no other options than abortion in a troubled pregnancy. Now we can actually have debates and reasoning and get the un-misinfirmation on the table, at least. Now the people can vote in their respective states I formed about this issue. Roe just made abortion the default and just stopped the natural course of all this. Its amazing women cannot see what a win this is for freedom, democracy, civil rights and justice.
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*un-misinformation, *informed
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I like “un-misinformation”, thats’a great combo word! And yes, we should be getting the word out on how to help pregnant women and have real debates instead of the silly straw man finger pointing so prevalent today. Many women have been brainwashed for eons but the left, media etc..telling them all sorts of nonsense about abortion. It’s going to be a tough sell that this is empowering for them, but I guess we can help with that.
Yeesh, sorry about all the typos above.
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H/T to https://freedomthroughempowerment.wordpress.com/
Madblog has written a thoughtful post. I am particularly struck by this paragraph.
Taking responsibility is the act that distinguishes an adult from a child. Children want recreational sex. Adults understand that sex comes with unavoidable consequences and obligations. That is why an adult man and an adult woman insist upon the public commitment we make in the marriage ceremony before having sexual relations.
It is worth contemplating the ways in which the two become one. It is worth considering that even when pregnancy does not result from sexual relations, the sex act has serious consequences. That is why even when “sex partners” use contraceptives sex is not for children. Instead, “recreational sex” is the sinful misuse of a God-given gift, a sin against one’s own body.
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H/T Citizen Tom
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