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There are no "pro-lifers". There are anti-abortionists, but being "pro-life" is quixotic at best, usually hypocritical, and always absurd.
The stark hypocrisy of "pro-life" murder should be obvious to all but the idiotic and/or ideological.
It reveals that the real argument is not "pro-life" versus "pro-choice", but guns versus abortion. The actual issue under discussion is; shall killing be permitted prenatally or postnatally? It is a city-versus-country dispute over a detail of timing.
There are other compromises with necessity; self-defense, capital punishment, defensive war. They may be justifiable, but they are by definition not "pro-life", except in the Orwellian sense.
There are no pro-lifers because there is no free lunch. In the absence of infinite wealth, people must pick and choose whom to help and whom to deny, sometimes even in matters of life and death.
Take Dr. Tiller's patients. He treated the hard cases, the obstetric disasters, the doomed pregnancies fated to yield dead baby or dead mother or both. In such cases, there does not exist a "pro-life" medical option; late-term abortion is the least bad choice.
These sorts of bad choices happen all the time. They're natural, they're built into the world. If God exists, and created such a world, then God is certainly not a pro-lifer. Therefore it is folly for mortals to call themselves "pro-life"; for that would be to claim moral superiority over God and Nature.
The stark hypocrisy of "pro-life" murder should be obvious to all but the idiotic and/or ideological.
It reveals that the real argument is not "pro-life" versus "pro-choice", but guns versus abortion. The actual issue under discussion is; shall killing be permitted prenatally or postnatally? It is a city-versus-country dispute over a detail of timing.
There are other compromises with necessity; self-defense, capital punishment, defensive war. They may be justifiable, but they are by definition not "pro-life", except in the Orwellian sense.
There are no pro-lifers because there is no free lunch. In the absence of infinite wealth, people must pick and choose whom to help and whom to deny, sometimes even in matters of life and death.
Take Dr. Tiller's patients. He treated the hard cases, the obstetric disasters, the doomed pregnancies fated to yield dead baby or dead mother or both. In such cases, there does not exist a "pro-life" medical option; late-term abortion is the least bad choice.
These sorts of bad choices happen all the time. They're natural, they're built into the world. If God exists, and created such a world, then God is certainly not a pro-lifer. Therefore it is folly for mortals to call themselves "pro-life"; for that would be to claim moral superiority over God and Nature.