Pro-Life Phoniness by John Seery at Huffington Post

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Pro-Life Phoniness
by John Seery
at Huffington Post
December 6, 2006

"If you're going to condemn abortion on the categorical grounds that all human life is sacred, even at embryonic stages, then you should have major problems not only with murder and terrorism but also with state-sanctioned capital punishment, torture, and war. Killing is killing. Thou shalt not kill. Period. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Turn the other check if you don't like it.

I respect pro-lifers who are genuine pacifists, though I don't agree with their positions. But I recognize their integrity, a consistency both intellectual and spiritual. They adhere to a sense of the sacred that is unconditional (unconditional means unconditional). They don't start introducing qualifying distinctions between "innocent" lives supposedly deserving of blanket protection versus "guilty" lives supposedly deserving of premeditated, humanly inflicted death. They aren't, in other words, hypocrites.

Witness, on the other hand, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.): Here's a presidential wannabee who is now running around the country touting his fierce opposition to abortion as his main claim to fame (open up those wallets, folks). Brownback gets a perfect 100 score on his anti-abortion voting record from the National Right to Life Committee and a perfect 0 score from NARAL Pro-Choice America. He contends that God guides his deep-seated opposition to abortion (as well as stem-cell research, gay marriage, and gun control): "We believe in a culture of life--that every human life is a beautiful, sacred, unique child of a loving God."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seery/prolife-phoniness_b_35727.html

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1. Yep - in fighting the cold war... what about the Russian fetuses? Same

holds true in Iraq.