The Internal Fracture Within Anti-Abortion



I wonder if those in the public who give money to the anti-abortion industry will ever wake up and smell the coffee. That is, will they ever come to realize the numbers of abortions is going up and the money they send to these slick prolife operators is money down the drain. 

The link presents a more sophisticated appeal for money than some others. This woman admits there is no future in anti-abortion for prosecuting women for murder. She then selects parts of the Bible to point out that using the commandment, "Thou Salt Not Murder" does not apply to women who pay clinics for abortions. That anti-abortion politics is split over this is not good, she writes. 

She then rifts into the vague notion that has been used by the Catholic hierarchy for many decades, "Blame the providers." Never do the Catholic officials acknowledge "the providers" are a bench so deep you cannot see the end from here. It starts with politicians. They make abortions legal. Add to that law enforcement budgets. The public does not want higher taxes so hiring a small army to chase down every method available for women to get abortions is not an option today.

In other words, the link author correctly sees the split inside to anti-abortion industry but carries on as though it is possible to resolve it. Money keeps coming is as long as the myth of ending abortions is passed from generation to generation. 

Perhaps giving money to anti-abortion when one knows intellectually there is no hope for eliminating abortion is like the experience of buying a lottery ticket. We may know there is no chance, but the excitement of pretending is worth the price of the ticket.

  


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