Why Can’t Some People Recognize That Unborn Babies are Human Beings?
Not so long ago, a few of us from the class that I lead were having a conversation over warm bagels and hot coffee. We were chatting away when, as they say, from out of the blue, a member said something that reminded me of a quote to which all pro-lifers would probably say a hardy “Amen.”
“All men matter,” wrote the great apologist G. K. Chesterton in The Complete Father Brown. “You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.”
Rob Renfroe took Chesterton’s observation further,
“The God who created just the part of the universe that we’re aware of must be incredible. His power, his wisdom, his imagination? This God must be absolutely, incredibly beyond our understanding. …
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“And that God—the God who is big enough to speak all of that into existence and hold it in the palm of his hand—says you matter to him. He says I matter to him.”
As the great Lon Soloman used to say, “So what?” Here’s what.
Regardless of what so many anti-life Democrats—such as outgoing President Joe Biden, members of the House and Senate, and a distressing number of states legislators—believe, this also applies to unborn babies who survive abortions.
Pro-lifers, equalitarians to the core, refuse to subscribe to the insidious idea that some lives are disposable, based on some sort of sliding scale, whether that is “wantedness” or “quality of life” or anything else equally arbitrary.
If you think about it, could there be anything that more fundamentally separates pro-life and anti-life forces than their positions on this bedrock conviction– that every life matters?
The pro-abortion mind experiences a kind of brain freeze when you even introduce the principle of the universal equality of all human beings. Even though after five decades we shouldn’t expect anything else from our benighted opposition, their moral blindness still beggars the imagination.
Their default position includes (but is not limited to)….there are SO many people in the world (a canard that is far less impressive now that many nations are approaching negative population growth); people, including youngsters, die from accidents (as if deliberating taking a life and inadvertently taking a life are two sides of the same coin); this is merely/only/just a “religious” tenet (as if anything any position that originates from, or draws additional strength from a religious impulse, is automatically suspect), etc., etc., etc.
As I once wrote for the monthly digital edition of National Right to Life News, “Our unyielding belief that ‘every single life matters’ means that pro-lifers are immune to the eugenic temptation which rears its ugly head in many guises.”
However, House and Senate Democrats are not immune, as they constantly demonstrate by derailing protective legislation such as the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. To Democrats, babies who survive the abortionist’s best attempts to kill her or him are on their own. After all, the whole reason you abort them is to get them dead, right?
In a way they are like the Grinch who puzzled and puzzled “till his puzzler was sore.” And because they cannot make the connection—that they share a common humanity with the preborn little ones—their small hearts will never grow, much less three sizes.
But we know that unborn babies matter…that the medically fragile matter…that we all matter. And why?
Just … because … we … are.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. This post originally appeared in at National Right to Life News Today —- an online column on pro-life issues.