I once wrote about what I described as the pro-abortionist's "impoverished moral imagination." I meant by this that in order to blind their consciences to abortion's wretched violence, our opponents have chosen to wear self-imposed blinders. And understandably so, I suppose, for without these flaps they might be compelled to look at abortion, as it were, straight in the eye.
Since abortion remains legal, the temptation is for them to believe that padlocking their hearts and throwing away the key is a proven strategy. But it is exacting a price that, I suspect, most abortion advocates would never have anticipated.
What I mean by this will be discussed today and tomorrow. But the overarching point is that pro-abortionists have made several disastrous miscalculations.
For one, they have persuaded themselves that the sun will set on legal abortion if there is any recognition that killing the unborn (outside of the abortion context) is wrong, regardless of one's position on abortion. They fear this could/would be a catalyst for a deeper reexamination of the justice of taking the life of any unborn child.
In fighting rear-guard battles against Unborn Victims of Violence measures, pro-abortionists have not exactly comported themselves with unflinching honesty. Worst yet (from their perspective), in insisting that an injured or murdered unborn child is not a second victim, the Abortion Lobby finds itself wildly at odds with the results of three major tests of public opinion taken in 2003.
It is important to remember that many self-identified "pro-choicers" are able to see that when a pregnant woman is attacked and her baby is injured or killed there are two victims.
But, alas, not so the Abortion Establishment, which fiercely opposes what even many in their own camp favor.
I once wrote about what I described as the pro-abortionist's "impoverished moral imagination." I meant by this that in order to blind their consciences to abortion's wretched violence, our opponents have chosen to wear self-imposed blinders. And understandably so, I suppose, for without these flaps they might be compelled to look at abortion, as it were, straight in the eye.