Suicide Bombers and Abortion
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Posted: 04/23/07
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Suicide Bombers and Abortion
By Thomas E. Brewton
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
( http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=709 )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.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.
The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of
writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776
http://www.thomasbrewton.com/
Email comments to viewfrom1776@thomasbrewton.com
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