Abortion better accepted than adoption

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“Maybe next time we should give an honorary degree to Hillary Clinton.”
so mused Mark Richardson of the London Free Press, June 14 in his piece about the University of Western Ontario awarding Canadian abortionist Dr. Henry Morgentaler. Not a Catholic viewpoint but an interesting twist in logic. It follows:

Abortion better accepted than adoption

"If I thought what was happening Thursday morning at the UWO was simply the celebration of a woman’s right to choose, I would be somewhat keen, at least, to applaud. Respecting women’s rights to avoid having to go to Buffalo for backstreet abortions is something I could get on board with, at least in theory.

Why the half-hearted support? Because sometimes, like it or not, violence is justified. St. Augustine wrestled with the issue of just war and came down on the side of saying it was, in extreme cases, morally permissable.

When terrorism struck at the heart of the U.S. I tried to tell my liberal friends it was asking too much to expect a sovereign nation to sit by while it is under attack…
 
Mark Richardson continues…

"Some of my fellow pro-lifers would tell me the second WW is a bad analogy. You cannot, they would say, equate the innocent unborn child with Nazi Germany. Who is attacking the pregnant woman? No one; but young, pregnant women with nowhere to turn can feel genuinely threatened. And I’m not prepared to tell them what they must or must not do.

On the other hand, some pro-choice advocates wouldn’t like my illustration either. They refuse to see abortion as violence, justifiable or otherwise. Years ago, the editor of the august New England Journal of Medicine, a woman, said abortion was the moral equivalent of removing a kidney. Sorry, but that won’t wash. The unborn child is not an object. He or she is a living soul with rights to be violated only in extreme cases.(highlight by Rosalinda)
The question is who decides when that threshold has been crossed?..
 
Interesting semantics Hillary Clinton is buying into. I once heard Bill Clinton comment about his affair with his Monika Lewinksy. He said, he did those things because he could do those things. The point he was trying to make is that we sometimes have power which we cannot use wisely.

I believe that many of us (myself included) have the power over life and death but, like Cain who killed his brother Abel, we do not fully know what life or death is. And therefore we do not treat life and death with any respect. This, I think, is due to our fallen natures and in large measure to the kind of societies which we have invented which fall deeper and deeper into error each day.

When I started this struggle for life back in the Terri Schiavo days, I thought the goal was life. But I didn’t know the nature of life. I didn’t really know why I was struggling. The Bible says men who lack vision perish. I am glad I have not perished yet. But I came close.

I want life for myself. And I want life for others. And I want life especially for the holy innocents who are yet unborn. But I want the fullness of life for all of us. We settle for too little when God wants us to have so much; so much that these bodies cannot contain what he wants us to have.
 
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