Today, the news is reporting that a doctor in the states was gunned down -in Church no less- because he was a "late term abortion" provider.

I'm not sure when abortion became a religious issue, but it is. For whatever reason, the religious right has dominated this issue, claiming that they themselves only care about the life of the unborn child.

In their ziel to protect life, the religious right that flames the passions of the anti-choice movement, and have pushed many to commit acts of domestic terrorism against doctors and women across the country.

Never mind the irony, never mind the contradictions, never mind how it flies in the face of everything that Jesus ever spoke of. But let us focus, instead, on the insanity of the rhetoric and the very argument of the anti choice movement as it is practiced by so many for so long.

The religious right/anti-choice movement have argued for too long without enough of a push back from the rest of us, that:

1) "Liberals" are pro-abortion
2) Abortion is murder
3) Abortion is a sin
4) Abortion is what Hitler, Stalin, Mao used

It's amazing that when you boil it down to the "talking points" how insane their argument is.

No one is "pro abortion". Anyone, anywhere, ever. We are "pro-choice". And it's a fucking hard choice to make. No one wants to have an abortion. No woman skips merrily to the clinic to get it done and then goes out for margaritas with the ladies to celebrate at an abortion party. It is a soul crushing experience from which many women don't ever fully recover emotionally and spiritually.

Abortion is not murder. As much as this might bother people, murder is a legal definition, not an absolute one. That's why it's murder if I shoot someone while robbing a liqueur store, but it's not murder when the state executes me when I'm found guilty. Abortion is legal, and not murder. You might not like that, but that's the way it is.

Abortion is not a sin. This one is just the most vile corruption of religious philosophy ever. It wasn't until the late 19th century that people even understood the process of conception. Don't tell me the Bible had it figured out 5000 years ago. In fact, in many cases, the Bible equates the act of breathing with life. And since a fetus can't breathe, it can't be "alive" in the Biblical sense of the word. The Bible is filled with references that fly in the face of what most "pro-life" people preach. Don't believe me? Read more here.

My all time favorite, however, is the comparing of abortion doctors to Hitler, and his group of nutcases. To be honest, I'm getting sick and tired of the constant comparisons to Hitler for everything. Hitler performed abortions not to honor a woman's right to choose, but to create master races and to discard "genetically inferior" babies (here's the important bit) EVEN OVER THE OBJECTIONS OF THE MOTHER. Hitler didn't practice abortion. He practiced FORCED abortions. NO ONE is in favor for that. In fact, the very notion flies in the face of what the pro-choice movement has been fighting for for generations.

But these are the lies, smears, and outright hysterics that the religious right/anti-choice movement have been saying about abortion. It's got to stop.

It might help them to know that even on the "Liberal Left" there are MANY, MANY of us who think that abortion is the ultimate ethical Mobius strip. It's the most repugnant of all our rights, and the lesser of two "evils" in many of our minds. But none of us sleep well at night when we hear that abortion rates have gone up.

Maybe if the religious right wasn't so against welfare, government backed daycare, and extended maternity leave, we would have less abortions in our society. I don't know. All I know is that they have got to cut back on the rhetoric before someone else gets shot.


MoonBat