Re: This is it.
I'm not sure if it's "it", but it is pretty spot on in many ways.
Most of the hard-core pro-life advocates don't give a rat's ass about circumstances or the future.
You don't know that. Heck, no one can know that, pro-life or anti-life. In the first place, "circumstances" can ONLY refer to the present in this rationale - but it's a very poor excuse for justifying the terminating of life - and second only to the rationale of "the future."
Anyone who presumes to know the future, theirs or anyone else's, is putting themselves into the role of an all-knowing, all-seeing god - which is the epitome of irony in this discussion, given how those same people express utter disdain for those who do hold human life sacred on the basis of their belief in God.
They have a very black & white view that clouds the rest of reality.
Life or death IS black and white my friend. There is no in-between. Either one holds human life as sacred and precious or they don't. Period.
The alternative is to hold that some human lives are less important than others - and to justify such belief on the basis of arbitrary, wholly subjective criteria.
This is exactly why some are opposed to aborting pregnancies that result from rape and/or incest.
Again, life or death isn't relative, it's an absolute. Moreover, rape or incest is a crime committed against the woman; the baby that may result is a completely different individual. Executing the baby because of a crime committed against someone else is the height of injustice.
It's also why some oppose the use of Plan-B which prevents conception, but don't you dare tell them facts like that, they just call it abortion regardless of facts.
Again, it either is a human life or it isn't. There is no in-between. By such rationale as the pro-abortion crowd dogmatically proffers, toddlers [must] rate differently on the scale of "being human" than adolescents, or adults, or the elderly. There's just no rational way of getting around that fact - having been
conceived is a common denominator of ALL levels of humanity. You either "ARE" or you "AREN'T."
They screech about welfare, taxes, education, single parents, drug abuse, alcoholics, lower-class/poverty, personal responsibility, and the morals/ethics around social programs and in the same voice, regardless of a woman's situation they rather force her to have a baby than allow her to terminate the pregnancy.
Well let's be perfectly clear [and fair] here - the other side screeches just as much about welfare, taxes, education, single parents, drug abuse, alcoholics, lower-class/poverty, personal responsibility and morals and ethics too, do you not?
But let's be honest, those are completely different arguments and issues than the prevention of or permission to terminate the life of a baby.
They'd prefer that a prostitute, strung out on crack-cocaine, who's also living on welfare and who can't take care of a cat let alone a baby be forced to see a pregnancy through to delivery than have access to Plan-B.
They don't really give a flyin crap what kind of life the baby might have to endure. The levels of abuse or neglect the child might have to suffer.
One, you don't know that.
Two, you can't possibly know that.
Three, you can't possibly know what kind of life the baby (and thank you for acknowledging it for what it is - a baby) may or may not have to endure, what abuse or neglect it may or may not have to suffer.
How can you possibly know that?
And EVEN IF we were somehow able to divine the "kind of life" a baby "
might" have - is that really an excuse to terminate its life? Is the POTENTIAL for struggle, for suffering an excuse for killing? More than that, such a "final solution" presumes NO POSSIBILITY of rising above such suffering or abuse, NO POSSIBILITY of improving their lot in life.
You couched your own argument with indefinite terms ("may," "might," "may or may not") and so are using indefinite rationale to justify a definite "solution." How is that remotely just or fair? I mean, good grief.
All they care about is sitting on their little sanctimonious soapbox and trying to force their religious dogma down other peoples throats.
And how, pray tell is YOUR stance not equally sanctimonious and dogmatic? Honestly, listen to yourself. Read your arguments, your tone, your utterly intractable stance.