tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141359521914822997.post8010919248248402437..comments2024-01-01T04:01:56.428-07:00Comments on Prose, Politics and Piety: Is It Possible To Be Fair-Minded About Abortion?Alan Metzgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08813820557598963565noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141359521914822997.post-15439243214975553632009-05-21T09:29:36.924-06:002009-05-21T09:29:36.924-06:00With regard to the video I must say, "Ouch".
The ...With regard to the video I must say, "Ouch".<br /><br />The call for strategic rhetoric reduction is, well, nice. I long ago stopped ascribing evil motives to people who disagree with me, though as a conservative if I dare speak up it is taken for granted by most on the left that I am not just wrong, I am in fact evil, and work from a position of either assumed moral superiority or self-gain. I find it so interesting that tolerance is preached so vigorously as a chief tenet of liberal orthodoxy and yet discarded so quickly in the face of any disagreement with liberal orthodoxy.<br /><br />I think people who support abortion on demand truly believe it makes the world a better place, and to be honest, it's the first part I disagree with, not the second. I want the world to be a better place as well.<br /><br />I look at myself and I think, "So, you're opposed to abortion. You think children have a right to life. So why aren't you at least a foster parent? How many kids are available for adoption and are not at your house?" Abortion is a somewhat nebulous political debate for me, but for others it's anything but. I am against it, but there needs to be a committment on the pro-life side, backed by evidence and financial support, that if abortion were ever to be declared illegal that those of us who believe all children deserve a chance at life will do what it takes to give them that chance.<br /><br />It's much more difficult for us, because performing abortions pays, and raising children costs...a lot. In a lot of ways. But I'm less interested in changing the minds of pro-abortion people than I am in squaring my worldview with my actions. As it is, other than writing checks I have to admit that my own three kids are about as much as I can handle, and given my work schedule the burden of another child or three would fall primarily on my wife. I'm not blaming her, the weakness is mine for creating a home situation where the burden does fall much more heavily on her. My job provides ample funds to make additional child rearing in our family possible, but not the time, and the time is more important for that job.<br /><br />The President's words are pretty hollow for me, I never called anyone a baby killer or hooted at women outside an abortion clinic, so calming my rhetoric isn't really necessary. I agree, Alan, that discussing the issue in a calm and rational manner doesn't change the fact that it's still murder as far as I'm concerned, and rational discussion becomes more than difficult at that point. The same people who will ban firearms because they kill would not consider limitations on suction trochars and hypertonic saline solutions. <br /><br />I do feel at least on-par with pro-abortion people who sacrifice lives for their own convenience. It is a similar choice that I make when I don't adopt, or don't foster-parent kids: convenience over the life (or at least life-needs) of another. I guess that's why I am more than a little conflicted on the subject. Of course, it costs pro-abortion people little to nothing to support their position, but then, when did God ever say that following him wouldn't come without a cost?Darren Duvallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14206549297099752092noreply@blogger.com