Pro-Choice....Superstitious Denial Of Reality

The following quote from Patrick Gray, in 'Aborton Rhetoric & Common Sense," appeared in 'Touchtstone,' Apr. 2004

"...anyone who defends the practice of abortion must posit a state of limbo, a literal no-man's land somewhere between life and death, between human and nonhuman, inhabited exclusively by embryos and fetuses." (end quote)


Superstition is the rejection of common sense and the corruption of reality. It's belief in the absurd....in whimsy, and wishful thinking. It's redescription of reality in order to allow for belief in fanciful conceits.


Because adherents of abortion must redescribe and deny reality in order to allow themselves to support and to engage in a practice that ends human life , by definition then, their corrupted reasoning falls into the category of superstition.


Since they cannot admit that abortion kills a human life during any stage of its' development, they must deny reality by redescribing life in terms that dehumanize it. The unborn becomes an 'it' called an embryo,a collection of cells, uterine content, a zygote, or a fetus. Death and killing are redescribed as termination. At no time can this 'thing' be thought of as being alive, for to do so is to admit that 'something' dies......that a life has been put to death. And at all times, we are encouraged to think of the ongoing development of this nonhuman 'thing' as something that may or may not become 'viable', which seems to suggest that at some mystical moment the 'it' has magically become humanlike.


Some pro-death types wish to believe that even after birth and up until one year of age, that the 'collection of cells' given birth to lacks something called 'personhood' and as a result, is still not a bona fide human being. Of course what they're really saying by way of mumbo-jumbo, is that if the personhoodless 'collection of cells' is displeasing or unwanted for whatever reason, then 'it' can still be 'terminated'. And we are not to ask....."Where does this 'thing' called personhood come from if it is not already existing within the baby....er,uh.. "thing"? Was it perhaps floating around in some unseen dimension while waiting for a personhoodless body to be born?"


In listening to Court TV's feminist talking heads voicing their outrage towards Scott Peterson, I wondered at their inability to see their own disattachment from reality. Had Laci not been murdered, and rather than anxiously looking forward to Connor's birth had she decided instead to exercise her pro-death 'choice' option and have Connor 'terminated' at a state sanctioned killing center, Court TV"s feminist talking-heads would have given her their full support. So what was the real source of their outrage?


In the final analysis, 'choice' is an innocuous sounding but deceptive facade behind which lurks a malignant disregard and vulgar disrespect for human life. By denying the intrinsic value, inherent dignity, and unique spirituality of human life, it lowers human life to the level of an animal of no particular worth.


Thus, just as we choose to own a pet or choose not to own one; choose to have it 'put down'; choose to abuse it; or choose to welcome it and love it, we've been seduced into believing that we can make similar choices with regards to unborn human beings. "After all", we are told, "are we not the creators of life? Yes...so the choice is ours to make." But, in order for us to be able to believe in this corrupt fairytale, we must not allow truth to intrude upon our consciences. Therefore we must deny reality and truth and accept the grossly absurd and distorted in their place. And just as we are not to question whether 'stepping on a crack will break our mother's back,' we dare not question the murderous reality of 'choice.' We must consciously blind ourselves to reality and believe the fairytale without question.....without thought.....and in a perpetual state of readiness to fend off our guilt.