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Every Child Deserves A Chance At Life
02 years ago
Heard this on the radio yesterday and thought it was good:
“Every child deserves a chance at life, regardless of the circumstances of conception.”
Ultrasound Bill
02 years ago
I saw in the news today that the state legislature endorsed the ultrasound bill (second-round approval), which requires that an ultrasound be performed prior to an abortion. The weird thing about the whole discussion surrounding it is that most of it had to do with emotional trauma to the mother. Some said that performing an ultrasound would cause too much heartache, while others pointed out that the mother could just look away.
I have a couple things to say to that. First, like it or not, the ultrasound helps to establish the seriousness of the issue. It’s a step in the right direction as it makes it that much harder to trivialize infanticide. And second, those who are trying to use that argument to oppose the ultrasound bill are in effect confirming that the unborn child is truly a life. As if it were not a life but rather just a mass of tissue such as a tumor or parasite, there would not be such heartache and trauma.
It reminds me of an observation someone made recently about many atheists, who strive with a religious fervor to convince people that there is no God (and sometimes even attempt to take to the courts to prove such). If there were really no God, and the atheist were correct, then why even make a big deal of it. Instead, it seems to be the knowledge of God that makes the so-called atheist most passionate against God. And so it seems to be with those arguing against the ultrasound bill. They know the fetus is a human life. And that’s what scares, even traumatizes, them the most about the ultrasounds: that the mother will realize that as well, and decide to save the life.
As if it wasn’t already crazy enough…
02 years ago
by admin
in Politics/Society
I thought my previous post already demonstrated the craziness of the animal rights movement, or even the “animal rights lite” seen among some varieties of pet-lovers… but this is even beyond crazy.
Apparently a few years ago in Canada someone proposed a bill that would “[move] animals in law from property toward having “personhood,” and, ultimately, with rights approximating human rights.”
Animals would be defined as “sentient beings, a departure from viewing them as property and would increase the maximum prison sentence for cruelty from six months to five years.”
In 2008, Spain actually moved to grant apes a status almost equal to personhood, with distinct rights such as life and liberty. This is in itself no great surprise, considering that if one accepts an atheistic belief of origins, namely evolution, it would naturally follow that human-esque rights would then be extended to so-called “ancestors.” (Incidentally, this underscores the stark contrast between this and the Christian worldview.)
Returning to the Canadian example, perhaps this is most telling: “in The National Post (October 28, 2002), Senator Anne Cools of Toronto questioned whether the Bill makes killing an animal a more serious crime than infanticide.”
