{"id":301783,"date":"2023-11-17T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=301783"},"modified":"2023-11-20T19:12:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T01:12:16","slug":"no-middle-ground-intentionally-killing-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/no-middle-ground-intentionally-killing-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Why there can be no ‘middle ground’ on intentionally killing innocent human beings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On November 12, <\/span>Dr. Tim Johnson<\/span><\/a>, a Protestant minister and the former medical editor at ABC News, published an <\/span>opinion piece<\/span><\/a> for CBS News in which he promotes what he describes as a \u201ccompromise\u201d and a \u201cmiddle-ground\u201d position on the issue of abortion. It is riddled with logical inconsistencies and factual inaccuracies.<\/span><\/p>\n

WARNING: Images of abortion victims below.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

TRIVIALIZING MURDER<\/b><\/p>\n

Johnson claims: \u201cMost of us are instinctively anti-abortion. I personally have never met anyone who thinks it is a trivial procedure.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

He apparently has blinders on, because abortion advocates frequently trivialize and even celebrate the homicide of preborn children, likening it to <\/span>wisdom tooth extraction<\/span><\/a>, or having a <\/span>cavity<\/span><\/a> repaired. One pro-abortion writer \u2013 who has had an abortion herself \u2013 even directly <\/span>contradicted<\/span><\/a> Johnson\u2019s claim, saying abortion is a \u201csocial good\u201d and \u201cno big deal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, to say people are “instinctively” against the direct and intentional killing of a human being in the womb must mean that to choose it goes against our strongest human instincts \u2014 a telling admission.<\/p>\n

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The hand and arm of aborted baby\u20147 weeks. (Photo courtesy of prolifesociety.com and imagesofabortion.com.)<\/p><\/div>\n

BIRTH CONTROL \u2013 A FAKE \u201cSOLUTION\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Johnson also claims that \u201cIf you are anti-abortion, you must also be pro-birth control.\u201d This is not a logical conclusion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Firstly, contraception fails \u2013 often. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <\/span>reports<\/span><\/a> that most forms of hormonal contraception have a failure rate of about 7%, and barrier methods can have failure rates as high as 27%. And the Guttmacher Institute has consistently <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a> that over half of abortion-seeking women were using contraception during the month they became pregnant. Furthermore, some <\/span>research<\/span><\/a> shows that when contraception becomes widely available, abortion rates actually <\/span>increase<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contraception promotes the false idea that people can have unlimited sex without consequences, and attempts to divorce the procreative act from the very thing it is designed to do \u2013 create new life. When contraception fails, and people are faced with the natural, biological consequences of sex, many opt to kill the child they created.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A much more logical pro-life position than promoting contraception is to teach, and abide by, a simple truth that should be obvious, but which our culture has attempted to distort and defy: people who are not ready to welcome a child shouldn\u2019t have sex.<\/span><\/p>\n