I was recently talking to a pro-choice friend of mine about the Tim Tebow ad. After expressing how hypocritical I thought it was of the so-called women’s advocacy groups to be so negative about Pam’s “choice” to not have an abortion (see my post “Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad = Free Speech”), and after graciously listening to me for a little while, my friend responded by saying, “But, there are so many unwanted and abused children in the world.” What she didn’t say, but was clearly implied, was that abortion solves this problem.
Although I sincerely believe my friend has just not thought this through, her defense actually implies an unthinkable moral equation… Killing a child is less offensive than neglecting, abusing or not wanting him, and any of these scenarios is thought to be more evil than murder. In fact, many pro-choice advocates offer killing the child through abortion as an antidote for abuse. The pro-choice slogan “Every child a wanted child” misses the point. The message should be “Every child a valued child.” This makes us responsible for valuing the human beings in our care instead of discarding them when they become inconvenient or unwanted.
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