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We Will Never Surrender

We have posted recently on "slippery slope" arguments (here, and here).  One of the points made by Jonah Goldberg about slippery slope arguments is that they discount the human factor, where people rise up to say "enough" and the slippery slope becomes less slippery.

Here is an example of what he means.  The slippery slope in this case is abortion and its increasing availability by chemical means.  Take the pill, kill your baby.  In a terrible case in the United States a "boyfriend" tricked his pregnant "girlfriend" into taking an abortifacient drug, causing the death of the infant.  The slippery slope argument would reasonably predict that as a result of such drugs an inevitable situation is arising where abortion will be as widespread and common as drinking a glass of water. 

Turtle Bay covers the case:

Unwanted Abortion: Man Slips Misoprostol to Woman with Wanted Child

Posted on | May 16, 2013 by Wendy Wright |

A woman is suing her boyfriend for tricking her into taking misoprostol to kill her unborn baby. Here is the lawsuit filed in Florida.

Remee Jo Lee was thrilled to be pregnant. Her boyfriend Andrew Welden took Remee Jo to his father, a doctor, to confirm the pregnancy. Andrew then claimed she had a bacterial infection and gave her a bottle of pills labeled Amoxicillin, an anti-biotic.  Andrew had filled the bottle with misoprostol pills. The drug can treat miscarriage, induce labor, or cause an abortion.

Remee Jo took one pill. She became seriously ill and went to the hospital. Doctors determined she has suffered a miscarriage caused by misoprostol.  Andrew admitted to her – and to law enforcement – that the pills were misoprostol. 

She is suing for $15,000.  Misoprostol is a favorite of international abortion advocates. Several groups are working to make misoprostol easy to obtain – by anyone. The World Health Organizations added misoprostol to its “essential medicines” list after being lobbied by abortion groups. 

Pro-life advocates warn that easy access to misoprostol will result in women with wanted pregnancy being forcibly aborted.

Where is the one crying "enough"?  Are people rising up?  Yes, but not solely in response to this case in isolation.  The first thing is observe is that the amoral Welden has been arrested and is facing justice.  This, from the Tampa Tribune:

Now Welden, 28, is facing the possibility of life behind bars without parole, charged with murder under a rarely used federal statute known as the “Protection of Unborn Children Act.” He also is charged with tampering with a prescription “under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference” to the risk of death or injury.

The "Protection of the Unborn Children Act" was already on the statute books.  Of course in the lunatic asylum that purports to be the highest stages of human enlightenment, this statute sits alongside the "woman's right" to choose whether to kill her unborn child or not.  Nevertheless the statute is there, albeit rarely used. 

The prosecutor appears righteously riled up:

“In my years as a prosecutor, this case is one of the most shocking and premeditated cases I’ve seen,” Assistant U.S. Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow told U.S. Magistrate Anthony Porcelli during a hearing Wednesday. . . . “Quite frankly, your honor, this case shocks the conscience,” Muldrow told Porcelli. “This was a senseless crime. He had no reason to kill the baby – his baby. She had a name for the baby… This case is solid. The crime is heinous.”

Were the accused to be sentenced to life without parole we are pretty confident that would go a long way toward making the slippery slope far less slippery.  All it takes is people consistently and persistently standing up and saying, "Enough". 

We belong to the Lord. We must never, ever surrender.