More “Pro-Life” Contradictions
Another point of contention for me with the so-called pro-life movement is the philosophical inconsistency of the pro-life movement.
The pro-life movement says that life begins at conception and that all life should be protected. This is why they believe that abortion or the harvesting of embryonic stem cells is murder and against God’s will.
This is where I have a problem with the pro-lifers. For some reason, they are okay with some “exceptions” in which abortions are okay. Specifically to save the life of a mother, or in cases or rape or incest. So all life is precious except the lives of babies that are the product of rape or incest? It’s okay to kill them?
To me, that is clearly a philosophical inconsistency.
If all life is precious, and Christian dogma dictates reconciliation and salvation, then support of the death penalty would be yet another philosophical inconsistency.
Along the same vein, I have a hard time understanding something else conservatives and the religious right seem to crusade against…euthanasia.
Like abortion, I am also against euthanasia. But what surprises me is how many people are against euthanasia for people who are suffering in pain with incurable disease and conditions, but are willing to put a pet down a beloved pet down because it doesn’t get adopted.
Or even more hypocritically, put down a pet because of a large bill or the pet is suffering, all the while calling it the “humane” thing to do!
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Inconsistency of Pro-Life advocates, that’s what this is about, right?
You know that every person you meet has different views and opinions from one another. You are exactly the same as every liberal are you? That kinda explains the inconsistency, easy.
Myself, I don’t believe any abortion should ever take place. There is no reason, no cercumstance whatsoever that a child should be torn from it’s mother’s womb and thrown in a dumpster.
(Image: http://www.idude.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/abortion2.jpg)
And you certainly shouldn’t throw a poor baby in a blender to make an old man live longer. That’s what the stem-cell debate is about. Should a new life come into this world? Or should we prolong another’s painful existence by sacrificing an innocent?
Poisening your dying grandpa or euthanasia as many liberals put it, is also wrong. Euthanasia is a pretty scientific way to say “I can’t deal with my dying parents anymore, so lets hurry up and kill them then burry them and get them out of my life already.”
Then you go on to compare old dogs to new born and fetuses. Saying they should be treated exactly the same. No animal’s life is the equal of any human life. How you can believe that, I will never be able to understand.
All these unnatural things moral people try to fight against are wrong. Killing a baby because you don’t want to deal with it. Killing your dying parents/grandparents because you don’t want to deal with it. These things are unnatural and wrong. Very plain, and very simple when you don’t use the english language to muddy the waters with pretty medical terms like abortion or euthanasia.