{"id":2498,"date":"2007-08-18T08:38:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/abortion-an-historical-perspective-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T13:38:12","slug":"abortion-an-historical-perspective-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/abortion-an-historical-perspective-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion: An Historical Perspective, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"

Center for a Just Society<\/a> | Millie McGehee Dasher | May 4, 2007<\/p>\n

We have seen now how the pro-choice movement descends directly from its intellectual predecessor, pro-slavery America. Pro-life Americans ought to be proud to align themselves with Abraham Lincoln, and the pro-choice crowd is now faced with the fact that they cannot support civil rights and abortion, and that their intellectual company ought to make them uncomfortable and willing to reconsider their position.<\/p>\n

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Originating with the great campaign against human rights, Robert Bork has argued that the pro-choice mentality leads one quickly down a slope which destroys even more human rights. And we are rapidly arriving. <\/p>\n

The Lincoln-Singer Debates<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Peter Singer, supposed ethicist and one of the few honest advocates for the pro-choice crowd, asserts repeatedly that all life is not equal. Killing innocents is not always wrong, and assuming that human life is superior to the life of various other species is erroneous. Moving from the notion that women have the right to terminate their babies\u2019 lives, Singer argues that handicapped children, Alzheimer\u2019s patients, children a few weeks old, persons with autism who cannot love (or express love), those without a conscious will, and humans so injured as to be in vegetative states have no right to life.<\/p>\n

A single sentence of Lincoln\u2019s is sufficient to respond to Singer: \u201cwhy will you\u2026deny the humanity of the [person]? And estimate him only as the equal of the hog?\u201d Regardless of the age, consciousness, intelligence, or race of the human in question, no valid excuse exists for denying someone else his fundamental rights based on factors which he cannot alter.<\/p>\n

Singer would likely be apathetic to the notion that Lincoln would argue vehemently against Singer\u2019s ideas, but one must wonder why Singer is so dedicated to denying the humanity of certain individuals.<\/p>\n

Such is the argument Lincoln made against Stephen Douglas and the entire Democrat party: the Democrats had denied the \u201cmanhood\u201d of the Negro, denied or dwarfed the \u201cwrong of his bondage,\u201d destroyed the sympathy the white man ought to have for the Negro, and called doing thus \u201ca sacred right of self-government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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