Why killing babies is bad…

George Orwell once said that we have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. He may have been right in his own pre Roe v. Wade time, but now I can safely say that Orwell would take that statement further if he were a 21^st century man, by saying that stating the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men and even the mediocre woman. This happens to be very lucky for me, considering I don’t consider myself particularly intelligent and I am definitely not a man.

So, as a mediocre woman, allow me the honour of stating the obvious: killing babies is bad.

This may seem like a silly thing to say (because of course killing an innocent human being is wrong, right???) – but the obvious seems to be an absurdity in an age where people genuinely believe their opinions can be classified as ‘truth,’ no matter how mind-numbingly idiotic their opinions may be to somebody with any sense of logic.

Abortion is the murder of babies: plain and simple. It is the greatest evil of our age – of any age. There is no nice way to put that, and you don’t have to be a ‘Jesus-freak’ to acknowledge it.

Allow me to backtrack a little: as controversial as this issue is, it’s pretty black-and-white. Everyone agrees the right to life is primary, and everyone agrees human rights are universal. That means exactly one thing needs to be established: is the ‘foetus’ human? Any other issue becomes arbitrary once we conclude that, in fact:

YES. YES. YES. The unborn baby is human

But lest I be declared a dictator – don’t take my word for it. Let’s ask those who know more than I.

In 1954, Dr. Seuss came to the conclusion that ‘a person’s a person, no matter how small.’ No doubt inspired by this, IVF pioneer Dr. Landrum Shettles, in a book entitled Rites of Life: the Scientific Evidence of Life Before Birth, wrote in 1983:

“I oppose abortion…because I accept what is biologically manifest—that human life commences at the time of conception—and…because I believe it is wrong to take innocent human life under any circumstances. My position is scientific, pragmatic and humanitarian.”

Think he’s an exception? You would be wrong. Look up pioneering fetologist Sir Albert W Liley, geneticist Dr Jerome LeJeune or Keith L Moore. What about T W Saddler and William J Larsen? These people are experts. Still not happy? The Biebs had something to say too:

"I really don't believe in abortion, it's like killing a baby."

- Rolling Stone: Justin Bieber cover article, 2011

I don’t know about you, but tween popstars with amazing hair hold credibility enough for me.

So, let’s summarise:

1. All humans are deserving of equal rights.

2. The right to live is a primary right; it supersedes all others.

3. The unborn baby is human.

Ergo, the unborn baby has a right to life.

To those that tell me ‘times have changed,’ or ‘it’s a matter of opinion,’ I say this: it’s the pro-choice view of the foetus that is outdated, not mine. The pro-choice view takes us back to the mentality that made slavery of blacks and genocide of the Jews not only legal, but ideologically sound.

In this day and age (in our wisdom), it is completely out of the question that slavery could ever be legal again. But, what allowed such a horrible practice to continue – virtually unquestioned – for so many years? Indifference. Beating a slave was like beating a dog – it wasn’t nice, but it wasn’t worth getting upset over. In other words, people were indifferent because they did not believe blacks to be human.

When people finally started to question whether or not slavery was moral, for 60 years the debate centred around whether or not the slaves were human beings. Then there was the issue of realising that accepting slaves as human was ‘bad for business.’

Let’s apply this to today: the abortion debate has been settled. Science concedes the unborn baby is human. NOW, we realise that admitting the child is human has consequences. Powerful commercial and ideological interests will suffer – not to mention the fact that for some, it is too painful to acknowledge they have made a grave mistake in terminating the life of their child. 

Ordinary people changed their minds and ended slavery – and the same is happening in the fight to end this horror. We can not be silent when 1/3 of our generation has been murdered. This is the battle of our age – and no matter what pro-choice advocates think: we are winning, because good ALWAYS triumphs. Want proof? 

The founder of the pro-choice movement in the US – Bernard Nathanson, is now a pro-life advocate. Jane Roe – now known as Norma McCorvey, is also a powerful advocate for the unborn, despite being credited as the reason abortion became legal in the US. Abby Johnson, director of a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas, was similarly inspired just last year.

Society is (slowly but surely!) coming to the realisation that however inconvenient it might be, and whatever it means for your credibility or lifestyle, there is no denying the unborn their right to life. I don’t think Nathanson and McCorvey ENJOYED telling the world they were wrong about everything they used to stand for and Johnson definitely did not receive a goodwill payout from Planned Parenthood, but their conscience won regardless.All in all, it comes to show that when it comes to the issue of abortion there is no grey, it is simply a matter of life or death.

The feet of a 12 week-old foetus... The womb needs to be the safest place on earth again.