Thursday, March 26, 2009

This is the "wrong fetus" for me!



Thursday March 26, 2009
Abortion Industry Needs "Pride" Movement: Brown University Bioethicist and Author
By Hilary White

March 26, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The abortion industry needs a "pride" movement, similar to that of the immensely successful homosexualist movement, a prominent US bioethicist says. Jacob M. Appel, an author, professor at Brown University and graduate of Harvard Law, wrote on the website "Opposing Views," that "the moment is ripe - more than ripe - for an Abortion Pride Movement."

Appel says that "one is bombarded" in the "conservative" press with stories of women who overcome obstacles to bring to term "fetuses" with severe disabilities. "The implication," he wrote, "is that while bearing a child when one is ready is a blessing, bearing a child when one is not prepared garners one extra moral credit in the cosmos." This praise of women carrying difficult pregnancies to term, he submits, constitutes an "anti-abortion" pride movement.

But for those Americans who believe "that life begins after conception," such stories are "not at all a cause for pride." "It more is akin to deciding that the world is flat and then boasting of not falling off the edge."

He complains that women who have abortions are "rarely encouraged to take pride in their decisions." Calling abortion a "courageous and noble moral choice," Appel wrote, "Women who step up to the ethical plate and have the strength to say, 'This is the wrong time,' or 'This is the wrong fetus,' should hold their heads high in the streets."

While he admitted that "terminating a pregnancy" can be a "difficult choice," "our society should be proud of them too."

"Our message should not be merely toleration or resigned acquiescence, but genuine joy that someone has made a decision for their own and for the collective good."




Aren't Jacob's mother and employer "proud" that his life wasn't sacrificed for the "collective good"?

3 comments:

Christina Dunigan said...

"I have the coping skills of a guppy so I destroyed my own young" hardly seems cause for pride.

debi9kids said...

Wow. That is unbelievable!
And this would be why I am afraid to eventually send my kids off to college.
Imagine what he is teaching in class!

Jen said...

I love your blog. Nobody needs an abortion pride movement. It's there, it's legal. I doubt many women who choose it take "pride" in it. I can't imagine how a happy story about children being saved by modern medicine hurts the abortion "movement". I guess we should stop trying to save the wanted children so we are politically correct?

It's no wonder where Jessica gets her strength from. You have an amazing daughter.

Jen (one of JK's twin moms)