{"id":71107,"date":"2015-08-17T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=71107"},"modified":"2016-09-03T14:31:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T18:31:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-why-make-abortion-illegal-if-people-will-do-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quote-of-the-day-why-make-abortion-illegal-if-people-will-do-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: Why make abortion illegal if people will do it anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-62713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/doctor-thinking-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"doctor-thinking\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/doctor-thinking-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/doctor-thinking.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Abortion advocates across the western world have almost completely abandoned the scientific and moral arguments for the institution, planting their flag on the\u00a0supposed inevitably of it instead. They contend\u00a0that because abortion\u00a0<strong>does<\/strong>\u00a0happen, it\u00a0<strong>should<\/strong>\u00a0happen. Or at least that because it does, it doesn\u2019t matter if it should. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pro-abortion folks argue\u00a0that society\u2019s duty is to not to prevent or condemn the murder of unborn human beings, but to ensure that it\u2019s done safely and cleanly and at the gentle hands of a rich man\u00a0with a framed diploma hanging on the wall&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The rationale usually sounds something like this: \u201cLook, I don\u2019t like abortion, but it\u2019s going to happen no matter what. Might as well have a safe and clean way to do it. And if the children are already dead, because they\u2019ve already been killed, because they were already going to be killed, then we might as well sell their corpses to science so that we can cure cancer or whatever.\u201d (They might have trouble naming any single disease that\u2019s actually been cured by cultivating aborted children, but never mind that.)&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So after much internal deliberation on the subject, I\u2019ve decided that these folks have a point. Why burden ourselves with making murder illegal when it can more easily be relocated? It\u2019s futile to have laws against things\u00a0people do; laws should only ban things nobody would ever do. They\u2019re much easier to enforce that way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Matt Walsh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/i-should-be-able-to-murder-you-in-a-safe-clean-legal-way\/\">The Blaze<\/a>, August 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion advocates across the western world have almost completely abandoned the scientific and moral arguments for the institution, planting their flag on the\u00a0supposed inevitably of it instead. They contend\u00a0that because abortion\u00a0does\u00a0happen, it\u00a0should\u00a0happen. Or at least that because it does, it doesn\u2019t matter if it should. Pro-abortion folks argue\u00a0that society\u2019s duty is to not to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[3957,4173,371,4174,4768],"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: Why make abortion illegal if people will do it anyway? - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;It\u2019s futile to have laws against things people do,&quot; opines Matt Walsh sarcastically. &quot;Laws should only ban things nobody would ever do.&quot; It&#039;s easier.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quote-of-the-day-why-make-abortion-illegal-if-people-will-do-it-anyway\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quote of the day: Why make abortion illegal if people will do it anyway? 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