{"id":213670,"date":"2019-11-11T08:25:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T14:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=213670"},"modified":"2023-08-24T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T23:26:15","slug":"abortion-genocide-government-decides-right-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-genocide-government-decides-right-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion and genocide: What happens when ‘the government’ decides who has a right to life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the most basic arguments used to justify abortion<\/a> is that preborn children are not human beings. Instead, they are routinely dehumanized with a variety of inaccurate terms. They’re said to be\u00a0blobs of tissue<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0products of conception<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0even parasites<\/a>, to have\u00a0“fetal pole cardiac activity”<\/a> instead of heartbeats, and so on. And thanks to this attitude, abortion is allowed to persist for a simple reason: if preborn children are not, in fact, human beings, then it’s acceptable to kill them.<\/p>\n

This same mindset has been used, historically, to justify countless genocides. And sadly, some people still have yet to learn this lesson.<\/p>\n

Albany Rose, a pro-life atheist who had an abortion years ago before becoming pro-life, recently shared a disturbing screenshot<\/a> on her Facebook page. While the context behind the comment wasn’t explained, it nevertheless exposed a problematic view that too many people hold. In it, an unnamed commenter wrote,<\/p>\n

I said being human doesn’t automatically mean you have a right to life. It’s not up to you or me to say that someone has a right to life. It’s up to the government. If the government says you don’t have a right to life, then you don’t have a right to life, human or not.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This kind of thinking –that people do not have an inherent right to life — is exactly what has led to numerous genocides throughout history: the Holocaust, Holodomor, the Armenian genocide, and countless more. Genocide is still occurring<\/a>, too — from the Rohingya in Myanmar, to Christians and Yazidis in the Middle East and Africa, to Uighur Muslims in China.<\/p>\n

Genocide most commonly brings to mind the Holocaust, perpetuated by the Nazis. The Nazis, like other regimes that committed genocide, routinely dehumanized Jewish people and many others<\/a>. And it’s this dehumanization that allowed these atrocities to take place. Because their victims weren’t seen as human, putting them in concentration camps where they were tortured, experimented on, and eventually killed was justifiable.<\/p>\n

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Similar atrocities are being committed right now in China<\/a>, as survivors of the so-called “re-education camps” have attested to. Prisoners are having their organs harvested from them, including their eyes, while they are still alive<\/a>. Others are being routinely tortured, experimented on, gang raped, and forced into abortions and sterilizations. Meanwhile, most of the world remains silent, looking the other way. The Chinese government has decided that these people do not deserve to exist, and therefore, they should be exterminated… and the world looks the other way. And this is also the argument used to justify abortion.<\/p>\n