{"id":161787,"date":"2017-02-04T09:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T14:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=161787"},"modified":"2017-02-03T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T21:07:15","slug":"quote-columnist-says-you-cant-argue-refugees-while-rejecting-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quote-columnist-says-you-cant-argue-refugees-while-rejecting-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: It&#8217;s hypocritical to argue in favor of refugees while rejecting preborn, says columnist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"p1\"><em>It\u2019s striking that so many people on the left appear to have limitless compassion for refugees and illegal immigrants yet none at all for babies. I wonder if they might suddenly discover at least an ounce of humanity for the unborn if we started describing them as \u201cfetal refugees\u201d or perhaps \u201cimmigrants from the uterus.\u201d &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">They believe that screening someone at an airport is a far worse\u00a0outrage than decapitating them in the womb. They believe that an adult\u00a0has a right to illegally enter the country across the border, but not through the birth canal, as nature intended. They cry over dead refugee children (a terrible tragedy, to be sure) but in the next breath declare as sacred their right to kill their own children.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>To all of this I say: WHAT?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">See, this is what happens when you\u2019re pro-abortion. You suddenly lose the ability to coherently\u00a0make a\u00a0moral argument&#8230;.\u00a0Because once you\u2019ve argued that child murder is moral, you\u2019ve forfeited morality completely. And you don\u2019t get to pick it up again when the conversation\u00a0turns to refugees or immigrants.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">~ Matt Walsh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/podcasts\/matt-walsh-if-we-call-unborn-babies-fetal-refugees-would-leftists-care-about-them\/\">The Blaze<\/a>, February 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s striking that so many people on the left appear to have limitless compassion for refugees and illegal immigrants yet none at all for babies. I wonder if they might suddenly discover at least an ounce of humanity for the unborn if we started describing them as \u201cfetal refugees\u201d or perhaps \u201cimmigrants from the uterus.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":161813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7,3058],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quote of the day: It&#039;s hypocritical to argue in favor of refugees while rejecting preborn, says columnist<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;...Once you\u2019ve argued child murder is moral, you\u2019ve forfeited morality. 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