Using democracy to kill the unborn child.

ROLCAM

Using democracy to kill the unborn child.

by Paul Vincenti.

The refusal to recognise fundamental moral principles such as the right to life is pure moral relativism.

There is no such thing as a pro-abortion movement any longer. In fact, they have tactfully reframed themselves as the "pro-choice movement" This re-branding exercise was necessary as every time they tried to defend abortion and the discussion focused on the unborn child, without exception, they lost every argument. As a result, they have somehow successfully commandeered the word "choice" as a diversionary tactic and have marketed it as the standard by which millions of babies die every year.

The ancient democratic regimes could never withstand an assault on their right to define certain classes of humans, especially their slaves as sub-human. Their slaves could not even be held culpable by law of stealing or of adultery, as that would have been tantamount to considering them to be fully human, with the right to be able to contest their status by law. Such an admission would have brought down the entire fabric of the ancient culture and was unthinkable. Some masters who treated their slaves with "too much" humanity could even be punished by law.

When the law discriminates against one class of people, in this case, the unborn, society should be alarmed. This category law has been useful in the past to justify genocide in Africa and ethnic cleansing in Europe. The educated nazi was quick to see the benefits of dehumanising a category of people.

Category law is designed purposefully to turn human subjects into objects. The liberal movement has embarked on a similar mission, even here in Malta.

Make no mistake, the present struggle is about a fanatical, near-theological defense of egalitarian democratic ideology against the counterclaims of human biology and the natural society.

William Gairdner, in his Abortion and Slavery, says:

"The conflict is not between the rights of two individuals, but between the expressed right of the woman, and the higher right of the community to defend the unexpressed right of an unborn citizen. In the pregnant woman both these rights are physically and symbolically resident in the same body. But because modern democracy has reduced itself to a simplistic struggle between the competitive rights of individuals only - in this case, the mother and the child - and recognises no higher moral authority, the strategy has been to invoke category law to deny the humanity of the helpless protagonist."

Increasingly, many aspects of our private life are being governed publicly; everything is considered in terms of cost and efficiency. This implies that whole classes of humanity can very easily fall into some form of category law, consequently qualify as non-humans and fall under the sentencing of the state. In the case of abortion, it may be the case that the cost to legalise abortion would be far less than the costs to provide social assistance to pregnant single women. Indeed, this is the case in the United States, where an abortion would cost about Lm130 as compared to five years welfare maintenance of a single mother at Lm3,300 per year.

The social order which some, like Kenneth Wain, are trying to construct holds nothing sacred. Anyone who threatens their credence is viewed as being peculiar, people who toil in "prejudice" and "intolerance," who must be forced to change their morals by "enlightened" social engineers.

Democracy, to some, has come to mean freedom from any imposed moral restraint whatsoever. It is being defined as meaning the freedom to choose our own moral "lifestyle" regardless of, or even in opposition to the normative, time-cherished moral values of our Maltese community. Indeed, under the banner of such democratic pluralism, Prof. Wain then sets out to condemn the values of others as being "judgmental", a blatant effort to morally enslave the free.

Scientific research carried out by Informa Consultants in December 2006 continued to confirm that 85 per cent of the population are in favour of a constitutional amendment to provide the unborn child with the clear right to life. Previous research carried out by Gift of Life in 2005 showed an approval rating of 86 per cent in favour and other research carried out by Xarabank reported an 87 per cent majority that back this amendment.
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Roland Camilleri

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Sydney , Australia.

Curious98 · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: Abortion

A very interesting article.

I've always been against abortion, as I consider it as plain murder.
I know many will not agree with me, but this is the way I feel.

Claude