Who Decides?
The issue is not about whether abortion is right or wrong, but who decides - the woman or the state.
The issue of "choice" and "who decides" are crucial. The abortion industry has made these the cornerstone issues of their strategy. They know that if they get forced off these and other diversion issues, they are left in the position of having to defend the act of abortion. They also know that can't be done. Don't worry that you will never get them to agree that the issue is not choice and who decides, but abortion. Just get the Moms and Dads to see it.
We have heard this exact same rhetoric before. Slave-owners used to say that very thing, that the issue wasn't whether slavery was right or wrong, but whether the government was going to allow people to make their own decisions. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Douglas always maintained that, while he was personally opposed to slavery, he would not legislate against it because he believed it was up to the people to vote it up or down. Lincoln countered the following - "He cannot say that he would as soon see a wrong voted up as voted down. When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do a wrong."
President Lincoln, was of course right. The government is not empowered for the purpose of protecting one individual's right to do wrong to another. President Lincoln viewed, and rightly so, that the government's responsibility was to protect those who would be victimized from those who would victimize. The pro abortionists tactic of constantly hollering that the issue is not whether abortion is right or wrong but who decides. It is nothing more than a smokescreen. The pro abortionists figured out long ago that they couldn't defend abortion by talking about abortion and so had to figure out a way to keep the people from looking at the real question ... IS THE UNBORN CHILD A LIVING HUMAN BEING? If the people come to realize that the unborn really is a living human being then there is no debate about who decides. Civilized societies simply don't leave the decision about whether one human being can kill another up to the individual who wants to do the killing. Nor should they. When looking at the issue of who decides, the first thing that has to be examined is what is being decided. It is easy to say we should allow people to make all their own decisions, but that is neither possible or desirable. There are just too many people who would make decisions which a civilized people cannot allow to be made. Just because the country is dedicated to the idea of individual rights, does not mean we give each person carte blanche to do whatever they like. We are a people of laws and any law we enact restricts or denies someone the ability to make a certain decision.
So the issue becomes "who decides" once we know what the decision is that is being considered. If it is what color shoes to wear, that is one thing, but if it is a life and death decision, that is another thing. Past civilizations which had almost no formal government never allowed one individual to decide whether another individual should be allowed to live. Even the most libertarian view has always been that if there is only one legitimate function of government, it is the protection of innocent human life.
If, as a society we agree that our government's primary responsibility is protecting one individual human being from another, it becomes obvious that the first thing we have to decide about abortion is whether the unborn is a living human being or not. The only way the government can say that the option of killing one's own unborn baby lies only with the mother , is to first decide that the unborn is not a living human being. For the government to say it doesn't matter whether abortion is right or wrong, is morally disgraceful. If abortion is wrong - it's murder! Any government which says that even if abortion is murder, they are going to leave it for the individual to decide, has completely abdicated it's most fundamental responsibility and surrenders its right to govern.
Governments should, and do, make these so called ``personal decisions`` every day. Those radical abortionists don't scream about a woman's right to decide whether she wants to sell her body for sexual purposes. They don't march around screaming that prostitution and drugs should be legal and arguing that their morality or harmful effects are not the issue. You would have to be hopelessly naive not to see that the reason these people don't get excited about the government having taken away a woman's right to decide those issues, is because they are not in the drug or prostitution business. They are in the abortion business.
These fanatical abortion advocates aren't noble crusaders out there trying to protect the rights of women, they are special interest lobbyists trying to protect a multi-billion dollar abortion industry. Period. They want the public to focus on the concept of ``who decides`` because they know if they look at ``what is being decided`` they will see exactly what abortion really is and the debate will be over.
It is interesting that the only people who try to sell this idea, that it is beside the point whether abortion is right or wrong, are always the radical abortion-on-demand types. They know full well that there is no way to defend abortion on its own merits. They know that abortion is an indefensible disgrace and their strategy is to see if they can get the rest of us to look the other way by saying it really doesn't matter whether abortion is an indefensible disgrace or not. It is pretty strange that almost everyone agrees abortion is a moral issue, but only those fanatical pro abortion people who financially profit from abortion say its morality is beside the point. (Life Activism)
The issue of "choice" and "who decides" are crucial. The abortion industry has made these the cornerstone issues of their strategy. They know that if they get forced off these and other diversion issues, they are left in the position of having to defend the act of abortion. They also know that can't be done. Don't worry that you will never get them to agree that the issue is not choice and who decides, but abortion. Just get the Moms and Dads to see it.
We have heard this exact same rhetoric before. Slave-owners used to say that very thing, that the issue wasn't whether slavery was right or wrong, but whether the government was going to allow people to make their own decisions. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Douglas always maintained that, while he was personally opposed to slavery, he would not legislate against it because he believed it was up to the people to vote it up or down. Lincoln countered the following - "He cannot say that he would as soon see a wrong voted up as voted down. When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do a wrong."
President Lincoln, was of course right. The government is not empowered for the purpose of protecting one individual's right to do wrong to another. President Lincoln viewed, and rightly so, that the government's responsibility was to protect those who would be victimized from those who would victimize. The pro abortionists tactic of constantly hollering that the issue is not whether abortion is right or wrong but who decides. It is nothing more than a smokescreen. The pro abortionists figured out long ago that they couldn't defend abortion by talking about abortion and so had to figure out a way to keep the people from looking at the real question ... IS THE UNBORN CHILD A LIVING HUMAN BEING? If the people come to realize that the unborn really is a living human being then there is no debate about who decides. Civilized societies simply don't leave the decision about whether one human being can kill another up to the individual who wants to do the killing. Nor should they. When looking at the issue of who decides, the first thing that has to be examined is what is being decided. It is easy to say we should allow people to make all their own decisions, but that is neither possible or desirable. There are just too many people who would make decisions which a civilized people cannot allow to be made. Just because the country is dedicated to the idea of individual rights, does not mean we give each person carte blanche to do whatever they like. We are a people of laws and any law we enact restricts or denies someone the ability to make a certain decision.
So the issue becomes "who decides" once we know what the decision is that is being considered. If it is what color shoes to wear, that is one thing, but if it is a life and death decision, that is another thing. Past civilizations which had almost no formal government never allowed one individual to decide whether another individual should be allowed to live. Even the most libertarian view has always been that if there is only one legitimate function of government, it is the protection of innocent human life.
If, as a society we agree that our government's primary responsibility is protecting one individual human being from another, it becomes obvious that the first thing we have to decide about abortion is whether the unborn is a living human being or not. The only way the government can say that the option of killing one's own unborn baby lies only with the mother , is to first decide that the unborn is not a living human being. For the government to say it doesn't matter whether abortion is right or wrong, is morally disgraceful. If abortion is wrong - it's murder! Any government which says that even if abortion is murder, they are going to leave it for the individual to decide, has completely abdicated it's most fundamental responsibility and surrenders its right to govern.
Governments should, and do, make these so called ``personal decisions`` every day. Those radical abortionists don't scream about a woman's right to decide whether she wants to sell her body for sexual purposes. They don't march around screaming that prostitution and drugs should be legal and arguing that their morality or harmful effects are not the issue. You would have to be hopelessly naive not to see that the reason these people don't get excited about the government having taken away a woman's right to decide those issues, is because they are not in the drug or prostitution business. They are in the abortion business.
These fanatical abortion advocates aren't noble crusaders out there trying to protect the rights of women, they are special interest lobbyists trying to protect a multi-billion dollar abortion industry. Period. They want the public to focus on the concept of ``who decides`` because they know if they look at ``what is being decided`` they will see exactly what abortion really is and the debate will be over.
It is interesting that the only people who try to sell this idea, that it is beside the point whether abortion is right or wrong, are always the radical abortion-on-demand types. They know full well that there is no way to defend abortion on its own merits. They know that abortion is an indefensible disgrace and their strategy is to see if they can get the rest of us to look the other way by saying it really doesn't matter whether abortion is an indefensible disgrace or not. It is pretty strange that almost everyone agrees abortion is a moral issue, but only those fanatical pro abortion people who financially profit from abortion say its morality is beside the point. (Life Activism)
