After a friend printed a misguided defence of abortion (from her comments thread)

[fpb]

Rephrase your premise as follows:
I don't agree with abortions... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with rape... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with burglary... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with assault... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with embezzlement... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with fraud... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.
I don't agree with forced marriage... but if they're going to happen (which they will), they need to be safe and legal.

etc., etc., etc.....

Excuse me, if something is wrong, why the Hell should it be safe and legal, only because "it's going to happen"? Crime is always "going to happen". That is the point of having laws. We do not have laws against something which, though wrong, is never going to happen (e.g. there is no law against stealing someone's soul). The point of having a law against it is to state that it is a disapproved and forbidden activity, and that, if you are caught (which, alas, will not always be the case), you will be punished. This trash about "it's going to happen anyway" is simply something that abortionists repeat ad nauseam, on the principle that if we hear a statement often enough we're going to take it for granted.

Comments

[jezreelite.livejournal.com]

How is ANY source of birth worse than not being alive?

[headnoises.livejournal.com]

http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461519079/stephen_william_hawking.html

And nevermind that most children are aborted so their "lives" won't be so horrible, not because of any deformity.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

So, to this creature, being born ugly is worse than not being born. I am sorry I banned it already, because if I had got to this first, I would have had a few more things to say. Vicious, evil little piece of slime - and what a fine argument for retroactive abortion.

[headnoises.livejournal.com]

FPB, I thank you for the honor of knowing that others know I would NEVER be dishonored by the response to such scum that think that "ugly" is worse than "dead".

May they suffer a thousand scaring accidents.

May they suffer a thousand acne-induced bad face-days.

As my (non-Catholic) husband states, may they realize that no moral has a right to choose who lives and who dies.