Where’s the logic?
January 3rd, 2008, 10:29 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
If the right-to-life movement believes abortion is murder, why don’t they consider women who get abortions to be murderers?
This past weekend, for instance, Mike Huckabee asserted that a doctor who “knowing took the life of an unborn child for money” should be punished but “I think you don’t punish the woman, first of all … I consider her a victim, not a criminal.”
Funny, haven’t we been told by pro-choicers that abortion is the moral equivalent of infanticide? If a woman paid a doctor to poison her three-year-old, would Huckabee be running around saying the mother had been a victim too and shouldn’t be punished? If not, why would he be softer on a woman who “murders” her child-to-be?
It’s not just Huckabee: Many pro-choicers make the same argument, that abortion is murder but women who decide to have an abortion are somehow innocent victims.
There are several ways to interpret this:
•Right-to-lifers really believe all women are stupid sheep who have been conned into their abortion.
•Right-to-lifers don’t believe abortion is murder, but it makes a good battle cry.
•Right-to-lifers believe abortion is murder but figure letting the women off scott-free while demonizing the doctors is the only way the public will accept an abortion ban.
•Right-to-lifers believe abortion is murder and have every intention of prosecuting women, but they’re going to keep quiet about that for now.
Any other alternatives anyone can think of?
