Posted by
KsReaganite on Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:37:16 PM
I have been asked, and have a received an email or two in pursuance of that query as well, if I find any arguments of the self-declared 'pro-choice' camp intellectually or morally viable. Now, the moral part, I won't address because that is based on deep beliefs anchored in faith. The intellectual part, I shall comment on because it will come as a surprise to many of my readers. There is one line of argument amongst the 'pro choice' advocates that I find very compelling and intellectually rigorous. Unfortunately, perhaps because of the need to keep appearances in a society given to appearances, few make this argument publicly. One person who did make this argument is a woman I met in college (she was in grad school at the time), who was a downright radical feminist and wore black clothes all the time as a mark of that feminism. Perhaps the only thing she and I agreed upon was that the sun comes out in the East. Today she is an administrator in one of those taxpayer funded east coast colleges and still a full fledged feminist, I am sure.
To this woman, until a a baby was actually born and severed physically from the mother, it was not a life or anything like that, but simply a blob of tissue. She did not believe that life began prior to birth. Hence, it became a matter of individual liberty for her..the freedom to do what you want with your own body since nobody's elses' life was involved there. In other words, her beliefs were anchored in an internal integrity that withstood the test of intellectual rigor. It was an argument I found chilling but very well reasoned and steadfast. And I will always respect that argument because it is very impolite, politically incorrect, and yet bold and made with seamless reason. What I find very hard to fathom, is the politically correct stance that 'I personally believe that life begins at conception but....'. But what? If it begins at conception according to you, you should be doing everything possible to extend legal protections to that life; if you don't believe it begins at conception, you should be doing everything possible to protect the personal liberty of the expectant woman.
Be like Martin Luther, who some believed was right and others thought was wrong. Few, if any, doubted his intellectual integrity when he calmly told the assembled earthly powers of Europe, to their faces, that 'This is what I believe, here I stand; I can do no other!"
Ich nicht kant anders!