Good thing Mary didn't have an abortion!

Excellent post over at The Burr in the Burgh on abortion and Christmas.

Key line: "I don't see how anyone can, in good conscience, celebrate Christmas without opposing abortion."

Or with an ounce of logic, either. But then, this is an age which is big on neither logic nor conscience. Roe v. Wade could never have happened- or, having happened, long survived- in a country where either was highly esteemed.

Bonhoeffer's cut-to-the-chase argument stands as an unanswerable rebuke to all legalistic (and parenthetically illogical) quibbling about when human life begins (there can be no real doubt; where cell division, growth, and the expression of the genome are taking place, there is life- and where the species is Homo sapiens, by definition it is human life). You just can't get around it: even if one somehow concludes that a fetus does not represent a human life, it cannot be denied, once that process begins, that God intends one to come into being- and that morally, to interfere is nothing less than murder.

On the other hand, if one is disposed to question whether all innocent human life necessarily deserves protection, or whether, say, fetuses with deformities might not be "life unworthy of life," then one really ought to accept the logic of that position: that in essence Hitler was right after all, and not all human life is valuable. Socially left wing "ethicists" are, in fact, saying precisely that, and making no bones about it.

Funny how the "pro-choice" crowd per se tries to avoid saying it up front. But that remains their bottom line, whether they admit it or not