The West is Ideologically Closer to Isis Than We Care to Admit

Lacking Logic and Without Shame

Here is a shout out to all our liberal friends who stand tall defending the sanctity of human life, labouring to ensure that murder always remains a capital crime and that manslaughter remains a serious crime.

Dr C. Everett Koop, a former Surgeon General of the United States, once wrote:

I do not know anyone among my medical confrères, no matter how pro-abortion he might be, who would kill a newborn baby the minute he was born.  (He might let him starve to death.  He would not kill him.) My question to my pro-abortion friend who will not kill a newborn baby is this: "Would you kill this infant a minute before he was born, or a minute before that, or a minute before that, or a minute before that?"  You see what I am getting at.  How can one consider life to be worthless one minute, and the next consider that same life to be precious?  So much for logic. [J Everett Koop, "A Physician Looks at Abortion", Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Christian Case Against Abortion, edited by Richard L. Ganz (New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1978), p.9.]

Sadly, as our civilisation integrates into the void there are now doctors who would willingly murder newborn infants.  The infamous Dr Gosnell is a notorious example.  Thankfully, this is still considered a crime, and Gosnell has been sentenced.  

Dr Koop's charge is that logic fails in the matter of abortion.
  Any premise that asserts that a baby is a human life one second, but a worthless piece of detritus the second before fails the test of truth.  The only grounds upon which it has been attempted logically to defend abortion in our degenerating culture is that such matters are to be determined arbitrarily by an "authority" (the mother, the doctor, the village knitting circle, or the dice).   But the premise cannot stand as true, because it is inevitably engulfed by a tsunami of an endless chain of begged questions: by what authority has it been decided that "x" has authority to determine the existence of human life?  And by what authority has that authority been established? And so forth.

Abortion has no logical grounds or rational defence to sustain it.  Abortion remains the greatest evil of our time--all the more perverse because our civilisation champions it as a human right.