Living in a Canadian cultural contradiction
What a contradictory culture we live in. Militant about protecting young children from possible sexual abuse and physical harm (there is such a case going on right now in southern Ontario)—and rightly so—but also adamant about the right to slay unborn children—and yes, they are children too—in the womb. It is blatant hypocrisy.
Does not such government-condoned slaughter of utterly helpless babes here in Canada undermine any right we have to feel moral superiority to the Nazi regime in their treatment of the Jews or the slaveholders of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? For all our purported concern for the helpless and disenfranchised, is it not sheer hypocrisy when we will not extend that concern to the enwombed?
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May 26th, 2009 at 12:04 am
At best a fetus in the womb is a potential human so the comparison between child abuse and abortion is fallacious.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:39 am
Thanks Dudley for your comment. I clearly do not share your view of the unborn child. At what point would you say the “fetus in the womb” actually becomes a human?
Michael.
June 1st, 2009 at 4:42 pm
It’s always amazed me that if you poach a deer in Ontario, get caught, and it’s pregnant with a fawn, you are charged with poaching 2 deer, but a pregnant woman does not have a child in her womb, it’s just a fetus. Go figure. Dudley, the fetus is as human as you are, it’s just not recognized as a person by law. We are sacrificing our children to the god of expediency and we still ask God to bless or nation. Yeh, go figure. I’m with you Michael.
June 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
Thanks Guy for the illuminating post.
May 17th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Regarding Guy Brown’s comment about how children are being sacrificed to the god of expediency, I could not agree more. In debating the abortion issue briefly with a ‘secular’ friend of mine, she cites the book Freakanomics by Steven Levitt about his study on how abortion has lowered the crime rate. I have read that book, and to me it seems so brutally cold and calculating to measure abortion in such a fashion. To terminate unborn children, because they’ll end up as criminals anyway and therefore be a burden to the state, is just playing God.