I am very Conservative. In fact the stupid Moon Bats would call me extreme Right Wing.
However, I have friends that are more Conservative than I am.
Those friends tell me that I should support abortion because it limits the number of minorities that will be future welfare queens and criminals. You know, for racial reasons.
My position is that I would rather have the children live. Relative to my more Conservative friends that is considered a Liberal position.
1. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson.
a. And based on the above, every conservative is pro-life.
2. Our nation was founded on the premise that each individual has the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But they don’t become rights by virtue of birth…we are endowed with these rights by our Creator, at the moment of creation.
a. This is a political argument: the form of the Creator invoked by the Founders is irrelevant to the debate. Morality is not a consideration here, so there is no mention of contraception as being right or wrong; one’s use of contraceptives does not infringe on anyone else’s rights.
b. The fact is that our nation, at its very founding, acknowledged that, by virtue of being created, of being conceived, the unborn child, has a right to live. It is not a right that is alienable….even by the child’s mother.
3. Conservatism embraces this brand of pro-choice sentiment: we fully acknowledge a woman’s ability to make choices about her own body, and to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The choice that operates is this: contraceptives may fail…the decision to engage in sexual intercourse is to accept the possibility that pregnancy may occur. This means the decision to accept all of the responsibilities that may become necessary.
a. When deciding to buy a house, there is the implicit acceptance of future mortgage payments, upkeep, insurance, etc.
b. The choice to which an individual has the right of decision is to have sex or not, rather than to abort or not.
c. No unjust intrusion on the unborn child’s right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is allowed.
On-demand abortion is antithetical to the ideas and ideals upon which America was built.
See “Voices of the Damned,” found in “Reinventing the Right,” by Robert Wheeler, pp. 89-99.
