Finally, an abortions rights advocate who calls abortion murder. That’s right. In her recent article, “Fresh Blood for Vampires,” feminist author Camille Paglia calls it like it is. Here are some exerts with my comments:
Paglia quote:
Let’s take the issue of abortion rights, of which I am a firm supporter. As an atheist and libertarian, I believe that government must stay completely out of the sphere of personal choice. Every individual has an absolute right to control his or her body. (Hence I favor the legalization of drugs, though I do not take them.). . .
My comment:
You don’t really think gov should stay completely out of the sphere of personal choice. Certainly, you appreciate the gov not allowing people to make stupid choices like driving 100 MPH on the wrong side of the road, or driving through red lights, or driving drunk. Gov exists to restrict personal choices that hurt or kill others. Like abortion.
Paglia quote:
But the pro-life position, whether or not it is based on religious orthodoxy, is more ethically highly evolved than my own tenet of unconstrained access to abortion on demand. . .
My comment:
Thanks for acknowledging that there is an ethical issue here and that the pro-life position has the ethical high ground.
Paglia quote:
Hence I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder, the extermination of the powerless by the powerful. Liberals for the most part have shrunk from facing the ethical consequences of their embrace of abortion, which results in the annihilation of concrete individuals and not just clumps of insensate tissue. . .
My comment:
Thanks for stating the obvious. I guess you would have to be an atheist to believe that abortion is murder and not do anything to stop it.
Paglia quote:
I have never understood the standard Democratic combo of support for abortion and yet opposition to the death penalty. Surely it is the guilty rather than the innocent who deserve execution?
My comment:
I don’t understand it either. No one is more innocent than unborn babies who can’t speak for themselves and who can’t defend themselves. They are at our mercy and need our help.
Paglia quote:
The gigantic, instantaneous coast-to-coast rage directed at Sarah Palin when she was identified as pro-life was, I submit, a psychological response by loyal liberals who on some level do not want to open themselves to deep questioning about abortion and its human consequences. . .
My comment:
Thanks for admitting that there are “human consequences” of abortion—a dead baby every time.
Your comment: What do you think about Paglia’s article and/or my comments?