Answer a Fool: Isn't The Belief That Abortion Should Be Criminalized Not Very Pro-life?

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Here's Pastor Tim. On this episode of Answer a Fool, we will be answering the question, isn't the belief that abortion should be criminalized not very pro-life? Now, this is a response that came to us from an internet troll who is interacting with our recent podcast on child sacrifice, where we answer the question, should women who murder their unborn babies be drawn and quartered?

Now, the response by the atheist internet, I assume it's an atheist internet troll, or it could be a progressive Christian internet troll, but regardless, the response to that was that this doesn't feel very pro-life.

Why the Pro-Life Label Can Obscure the Moral Issue

And one of the things that this should make us realize is that as it relates to the pro-life movement in general, the tactic of the pro-life movement has been to de-emphasize the gruesome and the horrible nature of child sacrifice and to couch the language of child sacrifice under this broader rubric of this positive message of being pro-life.

And so individuals who are trying to fight this idea of child sacrifice, we've tried to fight it under this positive message, hey, we're pro-life. And one of the things that's happened is that there's been many a progressive Christian who has come along and basically included a bunch of other things under this broader category of pro-life and attempted to hijack this basic pro-life message.

Now, I've never been a fan of the pro-life rhetoric in general. As I've thought about the pro-life rhetoric, I've always thought it was kind of squishy, and I've always blamed it for, blamed that rhetoric itself for the lack of effectiveness in the pro-life movement in general.

The Brutality of Abortion and the Need to Say Anti-Murder

One of the things to realize is that we are living in the kind of society that desperately doesn't want to think about the horrors of abortion. We don't want to think about doctors who are basically dismembering babies who can feel pain in their mother's womb, who are sticking scissors up into baby's head in vacuums, which they are sucking out baby's brains in order to pull them, pull these dismembered babies from their mother's birth canal.

We don't want to think about these kind of things, and the more that we don't want to think about these kind of things, the less that we're actually treating child sacrifice as a serious moral issue. And so one of the ways that we keep ourselves from thinking about this is that basically we try to present ourselves as having this positive pro-life message, when in fact, one of the things that we should have been doing from the very beginning is basically, instead of saying that we are pro-life, we should have been saying that we are anti-murder.

Because that treats child sacrifice as a moral issue, instead of removing all the moral issues involved under some sort of slogan that can be easily hijacked by progressives and left-wing activists. So one of the things to realize as we're trying to respond to this kind of atheist objection or progressive Christian objection isn't the belief that abortion should be criminalized, not very pro-life.

Murder, Lawful Killing, and Capital Punishment

It's just to simply point out the obvious that, you know, it's very possible to maintain a simple moral distinction between murder and capital punishment. When the Bible says thou shalt not kill, the kind of killing the Bible has in mind is what might be described as unlawful killing or murder.

When the Bible tells us that we shouldn't kill, it means that we should not murder. But then there is such a thing as a lawful killing or a justified killing. And this really isn't a very hard concept to grasp at all.

All you have to do is just pull out a dictionary and one of the things that you're gonna find in the dictionary is that murder is defined as the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malicious forethought.

So murder is the crime of unlawful killing. But then there is such a thing as lawful killing. When an individual takes another individual's life, that individual has forfeited their life and this really isn't a hard or difficult moral calculation to make.

So to the type of individual who is unable to understand these basic distinctions between murder and lawful killing, we would just ask them, please just open up a dictionary.

Closing Appeal to Trolls

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