Thursday, December 03, 2015

Response to Ruth Marcus: Republicans deserve blame for attack on Planned Parenthood



““If we are to affirm, as I do, that the children in the womb who are killed at abortion facilities are in fact children. . . then action taken to defend them is justifiable and cannot be condemned.”

This thinking is sick; leaders in the antiabortion movement have a responsibility to condemn it, forcefully. “

Ruth Marcus never compared her feelings if one of her children were in danger, to that of a person who believes babies in the womb are just that, babies. For people who believe this, abortion is murder and defending the innocent is praise worthy rather than to be condemned.

This does not mean that the murder of adults is permissible, and the attacks on Planned Parenthood Clinics were overwhelmingly condemned.  After all a human life, whether in the womb or outside, is precious.

She is right that on such emotionally charged issues there can be fringe elements that are violent.  The same can be said for such causes as the Proletariat Revolution of 1917, or the long march of Mao.  Extremism is not restricted to religion or abortion.

How Ms Marcus goes from this to “demonize(ing) Planned Parenthood feels different” eludes me. The tapes show beyond reasonable doubt for some of us that “organ legging – the sale of fetus parts” was going on. So she may think it is unconscionable, many of us do not.

Comparing this to “Black Lives Matter” is just as silly.  Yes, we believe that they influence attacks on the police, but that is because they chant their invitation to kill cops ( “Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon,”. It is because at least one cop killer bragged about his plan to kill cops before doing it.  These people were not denounced by the “Black Lives Matter” leaders or movement, nothing similar happened with abortions.


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