On Friday, January 23, Barack Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy -- this means that Americans are now paying for abortions all over the world. Not only this, but Obama's adminstration promises to sign into law the FOCA (The Freedom of Choice Act), an act that would practically remove all state-level restrictions on abortion.
Our president stated in his Call to Renewal address, "Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all."
It seems, then, that our president ought to ban abortion if a valid argument, apart from religion, can be made as to why it is an immoral act. While many would say this cannot be done, it is actually very easy to make such an argument.
In fact, it is not only possible to make an argument, but to make the argument very well, and quite strong. "In his book Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, Randy Alcorn notes a number of completely secular arguments for why abortion should be prohibited by law [one of them being that m]edical textbooks and scientific reference works consistently agree that human life begins at conception. Some of the world's most prominent scientists and physicians' testimonies to Congress have asserted this scientific fact.
One might add to Alcorn's remarks that there is without question considerably more scientific evidence for life beginning at conception than there is for global warming. Yet the president earnestly supports protection of the environment and dismisses the need for protecting the unborn. Is that reasonable?
It seems, then, that our president ought to ban abortion if a valid argument, apart from religion, can be made as to why it is an immoral act. While many would say this cannot be done, it is actually very easy to make such an argument.
In fact, it is not only possible to make an argument, but to make the argument very well, and quite strong. "In his book Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments, Randy Alcorn notes a number of completely secular arguments for why abortion should be prohibited by law [one of them being that m]edical textbooks and scientific reference works consistently agree that human life begins at conception. Some of the world's most prominent scientists and physicians' testimonies to Congress have asserted this scientific fact.
One might add to Alcorn's remarks that there is without question considerably more scientific evidence for life beginning at conception than there is for global warming. Yet the president earnestly supports protection of the environment and dismisses the need for protecting the unborn. Is that reasonable?
"If there is uncertainty about when human life begins, the benefit of the doubt should go to preserving life," says Alcorn. "If a hunter is uncertain whether movement in the brush is caused by a person, does this uncertainty lead him to fire or not to fire? If you're driving at night and you think the dark figure ahead on the road may be a child, but it may just be the shadow of a tree, do you drive into it or do you put on the brakes? If we find someone who may be dead or alive, but we're not sure, what is the best policy -- to assume he is alive and try to save him, or to assume he is dead and walk away?"
What faith group or atheists would honestly say go ahead and fire at the unknown object behind the bush, go ahead and drive into the dark and unknown figure on the road, or even walk away from the person that has questionably fallen dead or alive -- even if it's me? Whether a person of faith or not, the right to life is not something theoretical or hypothetical -- it's personal and fundamental to all...and an unjustifiable or careless breach of that right is universally agreed to be a crime."
President Obama, the case has been efficiently and sufficiently made by many people. Please, look at the facts, and repeal and prohibit those laws advancing the termination of the life within the womb.
quote from Creech. source.
President Obama, the case has been efficiently and sufficiently made by many people. Please, look at the facts, and repeal and prohibit those laws advancing the termination of the life within the womb.
quote from Creech. source.
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