Matt Walsh:
Yesterday, while hundreds of thousands of passionate pro-lifers took to the streets in Washington, D.C. for the largest annual rally in the history of the world, their supposed representatives in the Republican Party once again betrayed them.
Led by a few limp-wristed, jelly-spined cowards like Rep. Renee Ellmers of North Carolina and Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana, the Republican fools, who can’t even manage to pass an immensely popular piece of conservative legislation through a Republican Congress, abandonedan initiative to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks.
Now, this comes as no surprise to even the most casual political observer. The GOP is largely populated by wimps and nitwits, and I say that not as an insult but just as a sort of scientific observation. Wimps, because they are too afraid to defend the unborn in even the mildest of ways, and nitwits because they still think that being “too pro-life” will scare off women voters, even though most women are pro-life, and the pro-life movement, as evidenced by the attendance at the March for Life, is by and large a youth movement.
They let the liberal media convince them that they should moderate themselves on social issues, while Democrats scurry ever further to the left, twice electing a president who attends Planned Parenthood fundraisers, supports infanticide, and imposes birth control mandates. These Republican invertebrates think that abortion is a losing issue because Democrats tell them it’s a losing issue, meanwhile those same Democrats take every opportunity to inject abortion and “reproductive rights” into every debate, knowing they’ll automatically win because the other side is too afraid to argue about it.
Really driving home this shameful dichotomy yesterday, as Republicans peed themselves in fear over the prospect of appearing slightly opposed to murdering babies, President Barack Obamaissued a radical pro-abortion statement declaring child murder a “core constitutional right.” Once again, while the GOP scrambles to find the “middle” of the abortion debate, the left makes it clear that they intend to make no concessions. They want all abortion legal, and they want it free, and they want us to celebrate it. And they’ll insist on all of that while telling those simpering, gullible Republicans that they have to be balanced on the issue.
Enough of this already.
Seriously, enough.
Liberals realize that abortion is a matter of absolutes. Either you’re for it or against it. Either you accept one side’s premise or the other. And which ever you accept, it’s really quite impossible to accept it only partially. It’s time for conservatives and their alleged representatives in D.C. to go all in. If you’re pro-life, then you need to be pro-life without exception. Period.
If you’re pro-life, then you need to be pro-life without exception. Period.
Share:Let’s go back to the roots here, and let’s remember that you can’t give up the roots and save the tree. Which means, though I’m angry that the 20-week abortion ban didn’t pass, I’m only angry because of why it didn’t pass, not necessarily that it didn’t pass. After all, the bill still allows abortion before 20 weeks, in cases of rape and incest, and where the life of the mother is threatened. You might say, well, that’s better than nothing, but remember that the bill won’t become law anyway; Obama will surely veto it. So it has no value except as symbolism, and as symbolism it only serves to confuse the issue if it doesn’t affirm the value of all unborn life.
The pro-life position has to be one that allows no exceptions, otherwise it makes no sense. Pro-life legislation must protect the value of life unconditionally, or it only serves to send a self-defeating message.
It’s not that hard to figure this out. I am pro-life in all cases, even rape, even incest, even in the hardest and most difficult scenarios, and I can explain why. But in order to explain, we have to go back to the basics here, back to the roots.
So here is the five step logical progression that explains why I am pro-life without exception:
1. Because life is sacred.
If life were not sacred, then it wouldn’t make sense to be particularly for or against it. It’s just a thing that happens or doesn’t. Whatever, right? But if life is scared, if it has value, then we must defend it and preserve it. All sides of every issue would be irrelevant if the people they impacted weren’t worth anything to begin with.
2. Because unborn children are alive.
There is no debating this. Even if you look at a strict dictionary definition of the term, you find that life means:
“the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.”
All of that applies to unborn children. Unborn children are not inorganic objects. They couldn’t be inorganic objects, because lifeless things cannot ever become living things. Argue about “development” if you like, but non-living things cannot develop into living things. That clearly defies the laws of science. Unborn children are alive because born people are alive, and no living thing could have ever been a non-living thing.
I can buy into the argument that a life is a life. You either believe abortion is murder or you don’t. You can’t have it both ways.
When a mother’s life is threatened is an entirely different argument. Everyone has a right to defend their own life when threatened. That’s the very basis on the concept of the right to bear arms. To argue otherwise would be wanting it both ways.