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LINK Ohio Rape Case Shows Anti-Abortion Movement’s False Piety

For decades, the anti-abortion movement depicted the nation in stark, bloody terms. Abortion is a genocide, a new Holocaust, a contemporary moral crisis like no other, they claimed. The procedure was not only the product of an individual woman’s sin but also a symptom of a culture gone to hell. “Why is a human life worth saving? Why is it worth the trouble?” the late theologian Francis Schaeffer wondered in the first episode of his influential 1979 series Whatever Happened to the Human Race? Many people, Schaeffer claimed, no longer believed that human life held much value at all; the era of legal abortion ushered in six years earlier with Roe v. Wade had led to infanticide, he said without evidence. Through such baseless claims, and the influence of radical rhetoric, abortion opponents such as Schaeffer mobilized a powerful political movement. Now they have the outcome they seek: Roe is no more, and in much of the country, it will become much more difficult to access abortion. If Schaeffer was right, then a great injustice is over. Human life is worth saving again. ...

snytiger6 9 July 16
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"The procedure was not only the product of an individual woman’s sin" - what a ridiculous statement! It is certainly not a statement worthy of being considered as reason for preventing abortion. The selfish willfullness of the female in enjoining in sex is not reason for allowing abortion either.

"A termination performed on a 10-year-old girl is an abortion — and ends a human life" - very true. A termination to prevent the death of a mother is merely reducing the death rate & preservation of the mother's life. The incidence of cases where this is required however is miniscule. There are far more people killed & traumatised by motoring accidents, I do not hear cries to ban motoring!

The reporter has done nothing more than use absurd argument to argue for return to selfish barbaric practice & infanticide.

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Abortion is, and has always been, a Republican/Evangelical CON.
And absolutely nothing more.

Those that claim they are pro-life are brainwashed rubes.
And absolutely nothing more.

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