The Expansionist

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Misrepresenting Liberalism. Planned Parenthood, which went from advocating contraception (preventing conception) in the 1960s to promoting abortion on demand today, mischaracterizes its childslaughter agenda as "liberal". According to an AP article today about efforts abroad of U.S. conservative groups:

Carmen Barroso, director of International Planned Parenthood's Western Hemisphere Region, said conservatives have been particularly active in Latin America."Whenever there's a major initiative to liberalize laws, they marshal their forces against it."

That should be not "liberalize", which implies that making abortion more readily available is a liberal cause, but "loosen laws" or "weaken protections for children".
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What is "liberal" about killing the defenseless? Liberalism is about protecting the little guy, not slaughtering him. Powerful laws against abortion are liberal, because they interpose the state to protect babies from the viciousness and immorality of their parents.
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New York City was reminded again this week of the need for intervention by the state to prevent the murder of children, when Nixzmary Brown,

A bright and talented 7-year-old girl was beaten to death [January 11th] in her Brooklyn apartment — where she was often tied to a wooden chair — even though child-welfare agents were already probing allegations of abuse [the New York Post reported January 12th].

There is no more a private right of murder in killing a 7-week-old than there is in killing a 7-year-old. Nixzmary Brown was killed inside her home, by her parents. What business is that of society? Doesn't a parent have the right to kill his or her child? "I brought you into this world. I can take you out." No. No you can't, not without the state stepping in and trying to stop you, or punishing you after the fact.
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A child's life does not belong to his parents, at any point. Not at 7 years old, not at 7 weeks old, not at 7 hours old, not at 7 seconds old.
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Protecting the defenseless is the very first responsibility of society and the very fundament of liberalism.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,215.)

- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:04 PM

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