{"id":58628,"date":"2015-01-19T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=58628"},"modified":"2015-01-20T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T15:34:09","slug":"is-personally-pro-life-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/is-personally-pro-life-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8220;personally pro-life&#8221; good enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A couple years ago, I wrote about why &#8220;<a href=\"\/news\/there-is-no-such-thing-as-personally-pro-life\/\">there is no such thing as &#8216;personally pro-life.<\/a>&#8216;&#8221; But even beyond the question of whether it&#8217;s possible to be &#8220;personally pro-life,&#8221; there&#8217;s the question of whether it&#8217;s good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Even if we <em>could<\/em> be &#8220;personally pro-life,&#8221; would it matter?<\/p>\n<p>Well, since abortion seems to be a harder topic to wrap ourselves around these days, let&#8217;s bring up a few easy ones.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it good enough to be &#8220;personally pro-consent&#8221; when it comes to rape?<\/li>\n<li>Is it good enough to be &#8220;personally pro-designated driver&#8221; when it comes to drunk driving?<\/li>\n<li>Is it good enough to be &#8220;personally pro-paying for what I buy&#8221; when it comes to theft?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->Sure, if we&#8217;re personally convinced of the right action in these situations, it&#8217;s likely that, when faced with the situation, we&#8217;ll make the right choice.<\/p>\n<p>But if we think it&#8217;s important enough for women to have the right to consent to sex and not be raped, why wouldn&#8217;t we support a law about that? If we think we&#8217;d never drink and drive because it puts innocent lives at risk, why wouldn&#8217;t we support outlawing it? If we believe that it&#8217;s proper, moral, and right to pay for a sweater instead of holding up Dillard&#8217;s with a gun until they give us the sweater and all the money in the cash box, why wouldn&#8217;t we want to ban others from committing a violent robbery?<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, if something is truly important, civilized societies often need to put the weight of law behind it.<\/p>\n<p>How many more robberies, rapes, and drunk driving incidents do you think would occur if these actions <em>weren&#8217;t<\/em> outlawed? How many more people would feel free to commit these acts that harm and endanger other human beings if they weren&#8217;t against the law?<\/p>\n<p>Making harmful, violent acts against innocent people illegal <em>does<\/em> reduce the frequency of these acts. It also sets into law that we, as a humane, dignified society, value the lives of innocent, helpless human beings. We do not support, fund, or condone the actions of those who intentionally harm other people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30607\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30607\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/early-pregancy-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"It's not just wrong for me to kill this baby in her first trimester; it's wrong for anyone to kill this baby.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/early-pregancy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/early-pregancy.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s not just wrong for me to kill this 6- to 7-week-old baby; it&#8217;s wrong for anyone to kill her.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, no, being &#8220;personally pro-life&#8221; isn&#8217;t good enough. Relegating our beliefs to the corner of our &#8220;personal&#8221; lives does little good for anyone else or for society as a whole. And it surely does nothing to help the innocent people who can&#8217;t speak up for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, when something is only a &#8220;personal&#8221; belief, it&#8217;s a lot easier to change it when your &#8220;personal&#8221; circumstances change. This is why, sometimes, &#8220;personally pro-life&#8221; people get abortions anyway. They &#8220;personally&#8221; thought abortion was wrong, but they also &#8220;personally&#8221; don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re ready for a child, and since it&#8217;s a &#8220;personal&#8221; decision anyway, they can &#8220;personally&#8221; go have an abortion, and no one needs to know.<\/p>\n<p>It just doesn&#8217;t work well that way. Either I&#8217;m pro-slavery or I&#8217;m pro-freedom. Either I&#8217;m pro-rape or I&#8217;m pro-consent. Either I&#8217;m pro-robbery or I&#8217;m pro-paying. Either I&#8217;m pro-abortion or I&#8217;m pro-life. There&#8217;s nothing &#8220;personal&#8221; about it.<\/p>\n<p>These actions \u2014 abortion included\u00a0\u2014 either violate the rights of human beings <em>every time they happen<\/em> (not just when I&#8217;m personally involved), or they don&#8217;t. And it couldn&#8217;t be clearer that a basic human right is <a href=\"https:\/\/thelostgenerations.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/14\/what-exactly-is-abortion\/\">being<\/a> <a href=\"\/news\/10-reasons-not-to-have-an-abortion\/\">violated<\/a> every single time abortion happens.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time we took a bold stand. It&#8217;s no longer good enough to say what we &#8220;personally&#8221; are. We either are or we aren&#8217;t, and we either support society saving the lives of innocent human beings, or we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So, are you &#8220;personally pro-life,&#8221; or are you ready to declare that you&#8217;re pro-life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago, I wrote about why &#8220;there is no such thing as &#8216;personally pro-life.&#8216;&#8221; But even beyond the question of whether it&#8217;s possible to be &#8220;personally pro-life,&#8221; there&#8217;s the question of whether it&#8217;s good enough. Even if we could be &#8220;personally pro-life,&#8221; would it matter? 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