They make plain that
abortion is a violent act, not against «potential life,» but against a living, growing human being a life with potential.
Not exact matches
This conclusion
is especially poignant in light of the past century, when
violent suffering has taken on the proportion of two world wars, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Sudan, Congo, Hiroshima, the partition of India, the massacres of 1965 in Indonesia, Stalin's Russia, Armenia, Timor - Leste, Bosnia, and the global practice of
abortion.
Granted, we aren't super
violent as a group, but just as a couple of examples: Timothy McVey
was a Christian as
was the Olympic Park Bomber, as
are abortion clinic bombers and doctor killers.
Feminism's
violent legacy
is also a chief driver behind the
abortion holocaust that has deprived so many millions upon millions of unborn children of their tiny, innocent lives.
The fact that the murder of Kansas
abortion provider Dr. George Tiller
is still making headlines nearly two weeks after his death has led some to accuse the media of exploiting the situation to paint all pro-life advocates as
violent extremists.
I personally think the second number
is slightly higher than the first — people who would
be violent anyway, use religion as their excuse — God told them to kill gays, or
abortion doctors, or people of another religion, or atheists or whatever.
I would agree that divorce rate,
violent crime rate,
abortion rate
are good moral indicators, but I do nt see how you can ascribe that to having ~ 5 % more atheists especially when you have countries with 90 % more atheists that ALL have abysmal morals.
I made no such assertion, because it doesn't make the comparison between ra - pe, which
is a
violent act committed against a person's will, and an
abortion, which
is a concious decision made by the woman any more accurate.
And yet these sporadic chinks of light
are couched in the context of heavy and unhelpful language in which
abortion is variously referred to as an «abomination» (p87), «this moral leprosy», «this savage beast» (p175) or «a
violent and soul - destroying act» (p218), to name but a few.
So too can
abortion be shown through rational explanation to
be a
violent attack on a defenseless, innocent person.
Even if today's shooting at the Family Research Council headquarters
was indeed motivated by the shooter's support of same - sex marriage (or
abortion, or anything else the FRC opposes), people should not leap to the conclusion that
violent extremism
is typical of the political....
The issue in Brown
was violent video games, but tomorrow states may seek to restrict speech supporting traditional marriage or opposing
abortion.
When pressed by Cooper, who
is himself gay, Luter said he believes America's problems stem from all its social ills: homosexuality, racism,
abortion, and
violent crime.
Serious, intellectually competent defenders of
abortion no longer claim that
abortion is not, or can not
be known to
be, the
violent killing of a human
being in utero.