Suicide Bombers and Abortion
Training Islamic children to become suicide bombers has much in common with abortion.
For an excellent analysis of the Supreme Court’s recent Carhart decision on partial-birth abortion, see The Supreme Court and Reasonable Hope by Richard John Neuhaus on the First Things website.
Reactions to Carhart raise the question whether our hedonistic, pro-choice liberals have any better claim to rectitude than Islamic jihadists.
Even liberals who blame the United States for Islamic aggression profess distress at the horrific phenomenon of Islamic families proudly urging their children to blow themselves up in order to kill infidels.
Those same liberals strenuously uphold the “right” of any woman, without the slightest recourse to due process of law, to murder her unborn infant. No tears are shed for the innocent life butchered in the abortion process.
The thought of Islamic parents subjecting their children to such inhumanity is revolting, but no more than the self-congratulatory piousness of abortion supporters.
Both liberals and jihadists are intent upon furthering a cause. They care not a whit about the lives of their children, who are expendable in the causes of hedonism or political power.
Jihadists claim to be following the Koran as the literal words of Allah. Their mullahs tell them that forcing non-Muslims to submit or die is the highest calling that they can attain, and they are eager to die for it.
Liberals in the United States are just as eager to kill unborn babies in the social justice cause of a woman’s “right to choose.” That disingenuous phrase, however, is a smoke screen for the historical fact that the 1973 Roe v Wade case was a product of the anarchist free-love of the Baby Boomer generation. It was nothing more nor less than legitimizing sexual promiscuity.
Like the jihadists, Boomers in the late 1960s and early 70s believed that their cause justified extreme violence. They thought it cool to blow up college computer centers and police stations, or to rob banks and kill people in the process. Nancy Pelosi’s generation adopted the Weatherman slogan, “Bring the war home; ice the pigs; kill your parents.” Speaker Pelosi still likes the first part of that slogan.
For liberals, abortion as a convenient way to deal with the potential consequences of sexual promiscuity is just another instance of John Dewey’s pragmatism. Dewey based his views on the Darwinian hypothesis that there is no such thing as morality; the only operative guideline is might makes right, survival of the fittest. Be self-centered and do only what benefits you, no matter the cost to others. If it works for you, do it.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg deplored the Carhart decision, among other reasons, for introducing morality into a legal decision. Morality, however, came, not from the Court, but from a strong majority of Congress who adduced it as a foundation for the statute banning partial-birth abortion.
Justice Ginsburg overlooks the fact that Roe v Wade had exactly zero legal basis, but was instead no more than the Supreme Court’s expression of what a majority of the Justices thought “ought” to prevail.
Liberals are again talking out of both sides of their mouths at the same time.
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April 22nd, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Abortion is a Liberl Right and a Liberal Cause.
THere are any number of precedents in the Armory of the U.S. Supreme Court that tells people and women what they can and cannot do with their bodies and voice.
Being a Liberal Institution, only Liberals will kill their Children, their future voterbase.
The tears that Liberal shed for Abortion are on the days following Presidential Elections.
It’s not a Child, it is the Future Voter Base. It is the futire of the Nation, inheritance, and for the Liberals a SS Taxpayer.
Christian Fundamentlist Voters proved that in 200 and 2004. THe COnservative Party has shown it self no different from the Liberal so they knew of only one other place to put their vote.
They will realize that mistake and look for a Third place shortly.
All of the lies of the Liberal, from their sacred Instituion of sacrificing their future voterbase, to sacrificing the Taxpayer base to pay for their Lie of Social Security, are coming unglued.
Today we have the Darwin Awards for those who Stupidly opt out od the Gene Pool.
The all time award is shared by the Sangerites, NOW, NARAL, the Democratic Party, Liberal Christians like Episcopalians.
Unfortanately, since this shows that G-D is not Mocked this is true.
It is also sad that by their winning this Award they have collaterally taken out the Moral Character and American Culture with it, which will not likely recover.
What was the line from the Hunt for Red October?
“You idot, you have killed us!”
Good thing we have a Constituional Right to Drink!
April 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
It is a constant fight against reaction. Every side is in knee-jerk mode, with not a nanosecond of rational thought. What the Supreme Court says, or what religious doctine says, means nothing except insofar as it coincides with morality.
The conservative wish to tease out any way to kill abortionists and/or Muslim jihadists is very instructional. These things are not brought to an end by more attacks or feigned morality — only the flavor changes.
To fight the liberals, look at the sentence above: “Be self-centered and do only what benefits you, no matter the cost to others. If it works for you, do it.” So what is the goal? To stop violence, or only to stop the liberal variety? Doing the latter would be, well, in perfect compliance with this self-centered liberal mantra. Morality isn’t whatever one wishes it to be.