Saturday, January 30, 2010

Pro-Life — The New Generation

Personhood initiatives haven't had much success so far, but the new generation of pro-lifers doesn't give up:
WASHINGTON, January 21, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Twenty-three year-old Katie Walker is part of the new generation of young pro-life activists who sees her work as part of the great continuity of centuries of human rights development in the western world. As the full-time public relations director for American Life League (ALL), Katie says that one of the “most striking” aspects of her work is the Personhood Movement, a major focus of ALL, and one that is reframing the issue for the public.

“We need to start looking at the pro-life movement as a human rights movement as an extension of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s,” Katie told LifeSiteNews.com in an interview Thursday.
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“When you’re discussing this and you’re getting down to brass tacks with pro-aborts, and you’re in any kind of hard-core debate, it always comes down to the baby in the womb is not a human person because of either age, dependency level or location. These criteria have been used to justify slavery and all kinds of human rights abuses through the last couple of thousand years.

“If you look back historically, it is the same movement and the parallels are undeniable.”

Pro-life leaders need to shift their focus to present their position as one of a defence of human rights. With pro-abortion advocates, this “takes away their ammunition.”
Actually, there are some radical pro-aborts that go as far as denying not just personhood, but also the humanity of the unborn baby, claiming that it's "a blob of tissue" which is a "part of woman's body". But that only shows that those guys are running out of arguments. They know that admitting the humanity of the unborn would put them on the defensive. And they know that if they have to defend their position in an open debate, all their arguments against fetal rights could be narrowed down to "because we said so" or "because the courts said so".

Well, those are the same courts that once refused to recognize black people as persons and then - ruled that women weren't persons. In both cases, the courts later had to admit that they were wrong. With the help of the new generation of pro-lifers we can look forward for the courts to admit that they were wrong on the question abortion and fetal rights. And, by the way - at least we have a new generation of pro-lifers, that are ready to take up the fight - with the new strength and the renewed approach. Our opponents are unlikely to have any of that.

2 comments:

DILLIGAF said...

I have asked this question many a time and have never gotten an answer...if having an abortion is killing a human being, why are we not NINE MONTHS OLD when we are born.

Leonard said...

Who said that we aren't? By the time a baby is born, his body is already 9 months old; he has a heart that has been beating for well over 8 months, he has a brain that's been functioning for about 7 months - and so forth.

Yes, we count our age since birth, because the date of birth is easier to determine than the date of conception. But biologically, our bodies are about 9 months older than what our documents state.